10. Mr. EDMUND HARVEYasked the President of the Board of Trade whether he can give an approximate estimate of the number of employed persons engaged in the tailoring trade who will be affected by the Trade Boards Act who are resident in Leeds and in the adjoining district; 10 and whether a local branch office of the Office of Trade Boards will be established to deal with this district and such towns as can conveniently be inspected from this centre?
§ The PARLIAMENTARY SECRETARY to the BOARD of TRADE (Mr. J. M. Robertson)The Trade Boards Act applies only to certain branches of the tailoring trade, and there are no statistics relating to those branches as distinguished from the rest of the trade. My right hon. Friend is not at present proposing to establish a local branch office at Leeds, but he will give careful consideration to my hon. Friend's suggestion.