§ Mr. HAYDAYasked the Minister of Labour if he has received any communications from the workers engaged in the cloth hat, cap and millinery trades with regard to sweating in the Manchester district and the inadequate number of Trade Board inspectors in the northwestern area; whether numerous complaints in this area have not been investigated owing to the lack of inspectors; and whether the appointment of additional inspectors is being considered so as to enable the proper carrying out of the Trade Boards Act in this district?
§ Dr. MACNAMARAI have received complaints of the kind mentioned in the first part of the question; and it has not as yet been possible to investigate a number of them. The point raised in the last part of the question will come up for consideration when I have received the Report of Lord Cave's Committee of Inquiry into the work of the Trade Boards.