§ MR. SEYMOUR ORMSBY-GORE (Lincolnshire, Gainsborough)I beg to ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if his attention has been called to the inadequacy of the vagrancy laws; and whether he is prepared to initiate legislation on the basis of labour colonies, such as at present obtains in Belgium.
§ MR. AKERS-DOUGLASA Committee, of which the right hon. and learned Member for the Ripen Division is Chairman, is now inquiring into the whole subject of vagrancy. The question of legislation must await the Report of that Committee.
§ MR. AKERS-DOUGLASI cannot say but after we get it and have considered it there will be no delay in presenting it.