HC Deb 27 July 1905 vol 150 cc600-1
MR. T. RICHARDS (Monmouthshire)

I beg to ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will state the number of persons who have been killed by explosions during the last fifty years, in the South Wales and Monmouthshire collieries, and in all other collieries in Great Britain respectively.

MR. AKERS-DOUGLAS

The figures are: in South Wales and Monmouth, 2,989; in the rest of Great Britain, 6,305.