§ 36. Mr. GRAHAM WHITEasked the Home Secretary if it is his intention to carry out the recommendations of the Departmental Committee for the reorganisation and increase of the factory inspectorate?
§ Mr. CLYNESYes, Sir, the recommendations of the Committee have been generally approved and have been, or are in the course of being, carried out. Particulars of the changes decided upon were announced in the Press on 6th March last, and I will forward to the hon. Member a copy of the notice.
§ 37. Mr. GRAHAM WHITEasked the Home Secretary the number of new factories which have come under the 2135 factory inspectorate in the Midlands and the South, respectively, in the last five years?
§ Mr. CLYNESThe Midlands and the South are divided up for purposes of factory inspection into several divisions, and I will circulate with the OFFICIAL REPORT a table which will show the increase in the number of factories during the last five years in each of the divisions
| Number of Registered Factories in Midland, Eastern, South Eastern, Southern and Western Divisions at end of 1924 and 1929. | |||
| Division. | Number of Registered Factories. | ||
| At end of 1924. | At end of 1929. | Increase. | |
| Midland (a) | 14,975 | 15,329 | 354 |
| Eastern (b) | 12,472 | 12,877 | 405 |
| South Eastern (c) | 17,843 | 20,974 | 3,131 |
| Southern (d) | 16,900 | 19,421 | 2,521 |
| Western (excluding Wales and Monmouthshire) (e). | 8,492 | 9,066 | 574 |
| (a)Counties of Warwick, Worcester, Stafford and Shropshire. | |||
| (b)Counties of Nottingham, Leicester, Rutland, Lincoln, Norfolk, Cambridge, Huntingdon, Northampton and Bedford; parts of the Counties of Buckingham, Hertford and Suffolk. | |||
| (c) Counties of Essex, Kent and Sussex; parts of the Counties of London, Surrey and Suffolk. | |||
| (d) Counties of Middlesex, Berkshire, Oxford, Hampshire; parts of the Counties of London, Hertford, Buckingham, Surrey and Dorset. | |||
| (e) Counties of Gloucester, Somerset, Wiltshire, Devon and Cornwall; part of the County of Dorset. |