§ SIR FORTESCUE FLANNERY (Yorkshire, Shipley)I beg to ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether he is aware that, in the Bradford District, in some mills the wool-sorting regulations of the Home Office 60 are not rigidly observed; and, whether, having regard to the fact that these regulations have been issued by the Home Office on the joint and unanimous recommendation of employers and employed, he will, in justice to the workers and to those employers who conform to the regulations, take steps to see that the regulations are fully and generally observed?
§ THE SECRETARY OF STATE FOR THE HOME DEPARTMENTI regret to say that a case has just been brought to my notice in which the evidence given at a Coroner's inquest points to a grave infraction of the rules at one place in the Bradford district; but I have no reason to doubt that the rules are in general fully observed in the places where they are established, and the Factory Inspectors are doing their utmost to enforce them. In the case to which I have referred I am calling for further reports, and will take the most stringent action that the circumstances allow.