HC Deb 20 October 1909 vol 12 c278
Mr. HENRY WALKER

asked whether any legislation was being prepared in his Department to give effect to the recommendations of the Royal Commission on the Care and Control of the Feeble-minded, with particular reference to the removal of mentally-defective persons from the workhouses?

Mr. BURNS

The initiation of legislation affecting the methods of dealing with mentally defective persons in public institutions would not be a matter primarily for my Department; but the recommendations of the Royal Commission on the particular matter referred to in the question will not be lost sight of by me when any such legislation is proposed.