§ MR. TREVELYAN (Yorkshire, W.R., Elland)I beg to ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether he can lay upon the Table of the House extracts from the Reports of the factory inspectors between 1838 and 1850 on the results of allowing the employment in factories of women and young persons from 5.30 a.m. to 8.30 p.m. (the so-called relay system); and whether he will also cause to be reprinted and laid upon the Table the Reports of the present factory inspectors relating to the difficulty of enforcing the legal limitation of hours in laundries and non-textile factories and workshops, where the hours of beginning and ending work are not fixed so as to coincide precisely with the legal period of employment.
§ *SIR M. WHITE RIDLEYIt is not usual to compile and reprint at the public expense extracts from such Reports for any particular purpose, and I am afraid I cannot undertake to do as the hon. Member suggests.