§ MR. CLAUDE HAYI beg to ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will state when the Particulars Clause was extended to the tailoring industry; how many prosecutions have been instituted for breaches of the same; whether, during the last year, he has received complaints respecting the non-observance of the provisions of the clause, involving a very large number of persons engaged in the tailoring trade; and what, is the result 1402 of the investigations, if any, made in consequence thereof.
§ MR. HERBERT SAMUELThe Particulars Section of the Factory Act was extended to wholesale tailoring in 1898 and to other tailoring in 1903. The Secretary of State has not been able in the short interval since the Question appeared on the Paper, to obtain full statistics of prosecutions in the tailoring trades; but, excluding ladies' tailoring, it appears that since 1903, fifteen cases have been taken, resulting in twelve convictions. The answer to the last part of the Question as to complaints is in the negative.
§ MR. CLAUDE HAYIs the hon. Gentleman aware that though the number I of cases is small, the number of persons I affected is over 1,000?
§ MR. HERBERT SAMUELNo, Sir.