MR. PICKEESGILL (Bethnal Green, S.W.)I beg to ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department under what statutory authority the police order prohibiting sandwichmen from perambulating the Strand, Piccadilly, and Bond Street was made; whether it has been brought to his knowledge that the effect of the order has been to throw out of employment a large number of poor men who have no other means of obtaining a livelihood, and whether, in these circumstances, he will consider the question of making some alteration in the order?
§ THE SECRETARY OF STATE FOR THE HOME DEPARTMENTThe statutory authority is 5 and G William IV., cap. 50. I have no reason to suppose that the effect of police action has been to throw out of employment a large number of poor men who have no other means of obtaining a livelihood, and I do not therefore think it is necessary for me to take any steps in the matter.