§ 25. Captain MACMILLANasked the Home Secretary whether the maximum weights fixed in the Schedule of the Woollen and Worsted Regulations (Lifting of Heavy Weights), 1925, and especially the maximum to be lifted by women and young persons, were arrived at after full medical inquiries; and, if not, on what grounds, physiological or experimental, these were arrived at by his Department?
§ Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKSThe answer to the first part of this question is in the negative. The draft Regulations have been proposed at the request of the National Wool and Allied Textile Industrial Council, as the result of an inquiry by a, special Committee of the Council on which both the employers' and workers' sides were represented. This Committee made a careful and extensive investigation, in the course of which they visited a number of works and inquired into the existing methods and practice. It is important to observe that the object of the Regulations is to fix maximum weights which are not to be exceeded.