§ Mr. SITCHasked the Home Secretary if his attention has been drawn to the statement of a factory inspector, at a recent inquest on a man killed through an accident to a warehouse lift, to the effect that the lift was dangerous, and that if it had been in a factory he would have condemned it, but that he had only power to inspect a warehouse after an accident; and whether he proposes to take any steps to amend the law so as to ensure the systematic inspection of warehouses before, and not after, accidents occur?
§ Mr. SHORTTI am unable to trace any such case of a lift accident in a warehouse. If the question refers to a lift accident in Milk Street at the end of October, the reply is that the building was not a warehouse, and that the statement reported in the Press, and quoted in the question, was not made by the factory inspector. Warehouses already come within the factory inspector's jurisdiction.