§ MR. BARNES (Glasgow, Blackfriars)To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he can give the number of cases which have arisen under the Compensation Act of 1897 by which illegitimate sons or daughters, fathers or mothers, of injured workmen have been deprived of the benefits of the Act to which they would have been entitled but for the disclosure, during proceedings, of such illegitimacy.
§ MR. BARNESTo ask the Secretary for Scotland if he can give the number of cases in Scotland which have arisen under the Compensation Act of 1897 by which illegitimate sons or daughters, fathers or mothers, of injured workmen have been deprived of the benefits of the Act to which they would have been entitled but for the disclosure, during proceedings, of such illegitimacy.
(Answered by Mr. Secretary Gladstone.) I will answer this Question on behalf of 936 the Secretary for Scotland as well as on my own behalf. I am sorry that I have not, and know no means of obtaining the information asked for by the hon. Member.