§ MR. RAMSAY MACDONALD (Leicester)To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether the administration of the home-work provisions of the Factory Act was discussed at a conference with medical officers of health at the Home Office last autumn, as promised in a reply to a Question in the House on 18th July, 1907; and, if so, what results were arrived at.
(Answered by Mr. Secretary Gladstone.) Yes, Sir, the conference was held as promised. A useful discussion took place on a number of administrative points, and certain alterations and improvements were subsequently made in the tables issued to the medical officers for the preparation of the statistics. It may be hoped, I think, that the conference will have its result generally in an improved administration of the home-work provisions of the Factory Act.