§ MR. PROVANDI beg to ask the First Lord of the Treasury whether, considering that it is twenty-nine years since a Royal Commission reported on our coal supplies in the United Kingdom, the Government will appoint another Commission to consider the subject, as the questions of their extent and cost have again become of pressing national importance.
§ MR. A. J. BALFOURThe subject to which the hon. Gentleman refers is a very interesting one, but unless it can be suggested that some practical issue would come from the inquiry he suggests, it seems hardly worth while to appoint a Commission in order to investigate the matter.