§ MR. M'KENNA (Monmouth, N.)I beg to ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether he has been able to reconsider his decision that the folding of newspapers is not a process, like the bottling of beer, having for its main object the adaptation of the article for sale; and whether, in such event, the folding of newspapers would constitute any premises in which the same is carried on a factory or workshop within the meaning of the Factory and Workshops Acts, 1878 to 1895?
§ THE HOME SECRETARYThe hon. Member seems to be under a misapprehension. Whether or not a place in which the folding of newspapers is carried on is a factory or workshop within the meaning of the Acts does not depend on any decision of mine; the question is entirely one of law. I am afraid I have nothing to add to the answer which I gave last year upon this subject.