HC Deb 14 March 1902 vol 105 cc41-2
MR. HUMPHREYS-OWEN (Montgomeryshire)

I beg to ask the Secretary of State for the Homo Department whether he will refer to the Joint Committee on the Standing Orders relating to the re-housing of the Working Classes, the question of making provision, by Standing Orders, for the re-instatement of members of the tenant farming class, whose farms may be taken in the course of purchasing large areas of moorland by public bodies.

* THE SECRETARY OFSTATE FOR THE HOME DEPARTMENT (Mr. RITCHIE,) Croydon

I do not think that it would be desirable to do anything that might extend the scope of the inquiry beyond the limits of the labouring class to which the Standing Orders in question relate.