§ Mr. BOTTOMLEYasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether his attention had been called to a recent statement by Mr. Rose, one of the Metropolitan magistrates, condemning the working of the public-house clause of the Children Act; and whether he could state the result of the inquiry promised by his predecessor into the working of this clause?
§ The SECRETARY of STATE for the HOME DEPARTMENT (Mr. Churchill)My right hon. Friend and predecessor set on foot his promised investigation of the working of Section 120 of the Children Act, and when the result of it is before me I will give the matter careful consideration. In the meantime I must not be taken as accepting every hostile interpretation which can be put upon any incident arising out of that enactment.