Part of the debate – in the House of Commons at on 9 December 1920.
Lord Henry Cavendish-Bentinck
, Nottingham South
asked the Home Secretary whether the Report of His Majesty's Chief Inspector of Factories on the conditions of sanitary accommodation in factories and workshops reveals a deplorable low standard among local authorities in many parts of the country; and whether, and in how many instances, advantage has been taken of Sections 4 and 5 of the Factory and Workshop Act by the Home Office acting in default and recovering from the local authority?