§ MR. KEIR HARDIE (Merthyr Tydvil)I beg to ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether he can now state what reply he has received from the Jersey States and the Guernsey Royal Court anent applying the provisions of the Workmen's Compensation Act to the Channel Islands.
§ *MR. GLADSTONEThe Lieutenant-Governor of Guernsey informs me that the Royal Court do not consider that the Bill can be made to apply to that island for the want of adequate local machinery to enforce it: but that the members of the Court approve the principle of the Bill and would be prepared to recommend to the States legislation on somewhat similar lines, with machinery adapted to local requirements. As regards Jersey, the matter is still under the consideration of the States, but I understand from the Lieutenant-Governor that the objections which apply in Guernsey to the extension of the Bill apply with even greater force in Jersey.