PRISON-MADE GOODS.

HC Deb 17 February 1898 vol 53 cc891-2

SIR HOWARD VINCENT

I beg to ask the President of the Board of Trade whether as many complaints of the importation and competition in this country of the produce of the labour of foreign convicts and felons have been received since the passing of the Prison-made Goods Act, 1897, as prior thereto?

THE PRESIDENT OF THE BOARD OF TRADE

Since the passing of the Act no complaints of this nature have been received by the Board.