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should be withdrawn? An investigation took place and they were withdrawn.
Mr. Walker: We have no knowledge of any previous illegal employment of women at night by this firm.
In view of the shortness of time, it might help if I concluded by saying that this case has received a great deal of publicity. Apart from a series of Ques- tions in this House and this debate, there has been much publicity in the local Press, while my hon. Friend the Mem- ber for Nuneaton (Mr. Leslie Huckfield), in whose constituency the factory is situated, has appeared on radio and on television with one of the nine women concerned.
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I feel compelled to point out that several of these night work orders-fresh applications or renewals-are made every week, but I do not think that the light of publicity has shone so closely on any of them before. When I began my investigations into the representations made by my hon. Friends, I was quite prepared to find that the procedure was in need of overhaul-
The Question having been proposed after Ten o'clock on Monday evening and the debate having continued for half an hour, Mr. DEPUTY SPEAKER adjourned the House without Question put, pursuant to the Standing Order.
Adjourned at a quarter-past Twelve o'clock.