§ MR. ASCROFTI beg to ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether, having regard to the largo number of deaths which annually occur in the United Kingdom in connection with the use of petroleum, and to the great weight of evidence given before the Petroleum Committee in favour of raising the minimum flash point for petroleum, he will invite the Committee to immediately present, an interim Report upon this portion of the inquiry, with a view to the introduction during the present Session of a short Bill, with the object of at once checking the deplorable loss of life which now occurs?
§ THE UNDER SECRETARY TO THE HOME OFFICE (Mr. JESSE COLLINGS,) Birmingham, BordesleyThe Committee have finished taking evidence, and are engaged in drawing up their Report, which will be presented to Parliament at the earliest possible date.