HC Deb 02 July 1913 vol 54 c1879
66. Mr. STEEL-MAITLAND

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether the kitchens of hotels, restaurants, and other places where the preparation of food, from the disposal of which profit is derived is carried on, come within the provisions of the Factory and Workshop Acts as being premises in which manual labour is exercised by way of trade or for purposes of gain in the adapting for sale of the articles in question; and whether, if they are not so included, he will state the reason for their exclusion?

Mr. McKENNA

The Home Office has been advised by the Law Officers of the Crown that the kitchens of restaurants, etc., are not "workshops" within the definition in the Factory and Workshop Acts.