§ MR. JACKSON (Greenwich)To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether, in view of the extension of the regulations regarding examinations for certificates of fitness to certain workshops, involving a probable increase in the number of these examinations made by the certifying surgeon at his residence or rooms, it is his intention to retain the sixpenny fee as a fair standard rate of payment for this class of skilled professional work, or will he be favouraly disposed to consider the advisability of making some revision in the scale at present in operation; and whether he will be prepared to institute an inquiry among certifying surgeons as to the extent to which children and young persons are sent for examination to the certifying surgeon's residence by large employers of adult labour, who thus take advantage of a concession that was originally intended to be given only to small employers.
§ (Answered by Mr. Secretary Gladstone.)As regards the first part of the Question I have nothing to add to the Answer which I gave on the 5th instant in reply to a Question by the hon. Member for East Down.†As regards the second part of the Question I will make some inquiries of the nature suggested by my hon. friend.