§ 69. Mr. HOAREasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department what steps he proposes to take towards carrying out the recommendations of the Departmental Committee on male young persons in factories and workshops in restricting the number and divisions of trades in which boys may be employed in night work?
§ The SECRETARY of STATE for the HOME DEPARTMENT (Mr. McKenna)Orders have already been issued by the Home Office giving effect to those recommendations of the Committee which can be carried out without legislation. By these Orders the exemption allowing night work of young persons has been repealed for the following industries: sugar refining factories, mineral dressing floors, works connected with lead and zinc mines, cordite and gun cotton factories, wire drawing works, and artificial silk works; and the exemption has been restricted and made subject to certain conditions in the case of galvanising of sheet metal and wire and works in which regenerative or reverbatory furnaces are used. I hope hereafter to carry out those recommenda- 2214 tions which require legislation, but I am unable to make any statement at the present time.