asked the President of the Board of Trade whether, in the extension of the Trade Boards Act to the industry of manufacture of sugar confectionery, it is intended to include chocolate confectionery containing sugar and confectionery manufactured from gums, such as pastilles and jujubes, which contain sugar, or to confine it to the cheap sugar sweets boiling trade; and whether he can indicate precisely what forms of sugar confectionery it is proposed to include and exclude?

The question of the precise definition of the trades to be included in the Provisional Order Bill extending the application of the Trade Boards Act is at present under consideration.

asked the President of the Board of Trade to state either exactly or approximately, the number of wage-earners of either sex who have come under the operation of the Trade Boards Act since its commencement?

It is estimated that, roughly speaking, there are 200,000 persons employed in the trades at present under the Trade Boards Act, and that about 70 per cent. of these are women and girls.