SIR GILBERT PARKEROn behalf of the hon. Member for Hoxton, I beg to ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether he has received representations from the Rev. W. Carlile, on behalf of the Church Army, to the effect that the efforts of that body to assist thousands of starving Englishmen at home to find work are frustrated by the sweating and misery caused by the importation of indigent aliens, and requesting that the Aliens Act may be strictly enforced, so that the numbers of Englishmen who emigrate under the auspices of the Church Army will afford some relief to the overcrowded labour market at home; and what steps he proposes to take in the matter.
§ *MR. GLADSTONEYes, Sir. I understand Mr. Carlile to mean that
† See (4) Debates, clvi., 1474–5.703 further legislation is required against; aliens, generally, on the ground merely of indigence. The Act is being administered in accordance with the law, and I have nothing to add to my previous statements on this subject.