§ MR. JOHN WARD (Stoke-on-Trent)I beg to ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether his attention has been called to the case of a man named C. J. Vowels who was killed by accident while working on the new lock, Portsmouth Dockyard; whether his Department was represented at the inquest on Wednesday, 14th October; and whether any Report has been made upon the subject by the district factory inspector.
§ MR. GLADSTONEI find, on inquiry, that the inspector received notice of the accident, and attended the inquest, but the accident proved to be one which, as it happened on an engineering work, is outside the present jurisdiction of the Factory Department. The question of accidents on engineering works is dealt with in the Building Operations and Engineering Works Bill, now before Parliament.