HC Deb 22 May 1969 vol 784 c116W
Mr. Howie

asked the Secretary of State for Employment and Productivity what steps she proposes to take to ensure that the arrangements for registering home-workers in the hat-making industry are improved.

Mr. Fernyhough

Factory inspectors examine lists of out-workers when making a general inspection of factories employing persons in the prescribed classes of work. The Government's proposals for new safety, health and welfare legislation indicated that premises used only as dwellings and by out-workers living there would be excluded from the scope of the legislation.