§ SIR CHARLES DILKE (Gloucestershire, Forest of Dean)To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether he can inform the House at what date it is his intention to establish in the Potteries one of His Majesty's Inspectors of Factories from the women's department, in pursuance of the strong recommendation made by the umpire at the arbitration last year.
(Answered by Mr. Secretary Akers Douglas.) I have already taken the steps best calculated, in my opinion, to meet the demands of this case. As I informed the right hon. Baronet last year, I arranged for special attention to be paid to the Potteries by the lady inspectors; and now by my directions one of them has been selected and given instructions to make the Potteries the centre of her duties for some time, and she is at present stationed there.