Mr. Whiteasked the Home Secretary whether more use can be made of the Report of the Health of Munition Worker's Committee; and whether a summary can be given to members of the Central Consultative Council?
§ Mr. BevinI have been asked to reply. The work of this committee, which was dissolved before the end of the last war, has been largely continued and developed by the Factory Department of the Home Office, now transferred to my Ministry, and by the industrial Health Research Board of the Medical Research Council, both of which bodies have issued, in the light of subsequent developments and research, more up-to-date pamphlets and other publications on matters dealt with by the committee. While some of the committee's findings and recommendations are common knowledge, and a number of them have been implemented by legislative action, many are no longer appropriate. The relevant conclusions have already been brought to the notice of the Factory and Welfare Advisory Board.
Mr. Whiteasked the Home Secretary what members of the staff of the factory department are on the Labour Supply Committee appointed by him; and how is the committee just formed, under the chairmanship of Lady Cynthia Colville, linked up with the factory department with its practical knowledge and experience of the problems involved?
§ Mr. BevinI have been asked to reply. The chief inspector of factories, and other headquarters inspectors as necessary attend the meetings of the Board. The Central Consultative Council representative of voluntary organisations, is concerned more particularly with the co- 1105W ordination of the work of those organisations in the matter of welfare outside the factories and through its chairman is in direct touch with the Factory and Welfare Department.