§ SIR GILBERT PARKER (Gravesend)On behalf of the hon. Member for Central Sheffield, I beg to ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he can obtain through the Foreign Office a report concerning the industrial disturbances now prevailing in the department of France adjoining the Straits of Dover, and particularly as to instances of the destruction of the houses and property of workmen and personal assaults upon them, leading to deaths, to persuade them to abstain from working.
§ * THE SECRETARY OF STATE FOR THE HOME DEPARTMENT (Mr. GLADSTONE,) Leeds, W.. I have conferred with my right hon. friend the Foreign Secretary with regard to this request. In his opinion, with which I entirely concur, it is not desirable to make the industrial disturbances referred to the subject of a special report for publication by his office. The accounts which are being published in the daily Press appear to contain very full information.