§ MR. PONSONBY (Stirling Brughs)To ask the Lord Advocate whether his attention has been called to the death of Robert Adamson in November last year by the collapse of a brick arch in the Dalbeath Pit, belonging to the Fife Coal Company; whether, owing to the unsatisfactory nature of the public inquiry which was held, instructions will be given for a further public inquiry or a Home Office inquiry being instituted into the whole facts and circumstances connected with the accident; and whether he will consider the advisability of issuing an order allowing the representatives of injured or deceased workmen to get access to the locus of an accident immediately after it happens.
(Answered by Mr. Thomas Shaw.) I am having inquiries instituted into this matter by the Crown Office and on the spot, and I should be glad to communicate the result of these to my hon. friend either privately or in answer to a Question, say, in ten days time.