§ 67. Mr. JOWETTasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he is aware of the growing discontent among tradesmen and other who are called to serve on juries; if ho can take any steps to prevent busy men being summoned unnecessarily and held in reserve without reasonable cause at con siderable personal loss and inconvenience, which many of them are unable to afford, and to secure that the duties shall be shared between all who are summoned to serve; and if he has received any com plaints that jurymen who have been kept too long and feel that their own affairs are being badly neglected are too discontented to give sufficient care and attention to their duties?
§ Mr. McKENNAI would refer my hon. Friend to the reply which I gave on the 16th January to the hon. Member for Northwich, in which I said that the Departmental Committee which is inquiring into the working of the jury system will no doubt consider how far the inconveniences attendant on jury service can be remedied.