§ MR. HAROLD RECKITT (Lincolnshire, Brigg)I beg to ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he can state whether he will this Session introduce the Employers' Liability Bill, promised in the Speech from the Throne at the opening of the Session; and, if not, will he afford facilities for the discussion and passing into law of the Bill on the subject introduced by the hon. Member for Battersea, the principle of which both Houses of Parliament have already affirmed, seeing that it deals with 90 per cent. of industrial accidents not affected by the Coal Mines Regulation Bill, which only deals with 10 per cent. of such accidents?
§ THE SECRETARY OF STATE FOR THE HOME DEPARTMENT (Sir MATTHEW WHITE RIDLEY, Lancashire, Blackpool)The Bill has been for a long time quite ready, but I do not think it would be desirable to introduce it unless there were a reasonable prospect of there being time for the House to discuss it. I am afraid there does not appear to be any such prospect. I have not seen the Bill of the hon. Member for Battersea.