§ Mr. DUNNICOasked the Home Secretary whether he is aw are that any person may be registered upon, payment of 1s. for the sale of fireworks; and what steps, if any, are taken to ascertain that adequate provision is made for the storage of the same?
§ Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKSThe answer to the first part of the question is in the affirmative, but there are Regulations 1697W governing registered premises and it is the duty of the local authorities to see that those Regulations are observed.
§ Mr. DUNNICOasked the Home Secretary whether his attention has been called to several serious accidents resulting from the sale of fireworks, particularly to a case at Stratford, where a child was burnt to death on premises where lire-works were exposed for sale, and whether he proposes to amend the present law relating to the sale and storage of fireworks?
§ Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKSI answered a question on this subject by the hon. Member for Stratford (Mr. Groves) on the 25th November, and I am sending the bon. Member a copy of the reply.