§ SIR CHARLES DILKE (Gloucestershire, Forest of Dean)To ask the Secretary of State for the Homo Department whether he could lay before Parliament the Reports based on the Home Office inspection of herring-curing establishments at Scottish ports, and procured by the Local Government Board for Scotland, as mentioned in the Twelfth Annual Report of that body.
(Answered by Mr. Sinclair.) The Reports are somewhat voluminous and detailed and cannot well be summarised; while the Local Government Board's action is described in the Local Government Board Report, to which reference is made. Publication in full does not, therefore, seem necessary or justifiable, on the ground of expense