§ MR. PICKERSGILLI beg to ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department why the employment of female prisoners in Wormwood Scrubbs Prison in doll-dressing, to which reference was made in the Report for 1896–7, has been discontinued?
§ THE SECRETARY OF STATE FOR THE HOME DEPARTMENTDoll-dressing has not been discontinued, but merely suspended during a temporary slackness of trade.