§ MR. GLOVER (St. Helens)To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether it is the intention of the Government to bring in a Bill to shorten the hours of labour in mines, and to pass it into law this session of Parliament; and when the Government will introduce the Bill.
§ (Answered by Mr. Secretary Gladstone.) As I have already stated, the Government 506 intend to bring in a Bill to shorten the hours of labour in mines as soon as possible after the Departmental Committee has reported, and to pass it into law without any unavoidable delay. Its progress, however, must of course depend largely on its reception by the House and upon the state of public business.