HC Deb 11 July 1904 vol 137 cc1206-7
* SIR CHARLES DILKE

I beg to ask the Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department what is the cause of the unusual delay in the publication of the Report of the Chief Inspector of Factories and Workshops.

THE UNDER-SECRETARY OF STATE FOR THE HOME DEPARTMENT (Mr. COCHRANE, Ayrshire, N.)

I explained, in answer to a Question of the right hon. Baronet on the same subject last March, † the special circumstances which made it impossble to promise this year's Report at so early a date as last year's. Every effort, however, has been made to expedite the printing of the Report, and I understand that copies will be delivered on Friday next.