§ Mr. JOHN HOPEasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he can now state when additional inspectors will be appointed for the coal mines in Fifeshire?
§ Mr. CHURCHILLI propose to take up shortly the question of the increase of the staff of inspectors of mines, and I will carefully consider the representations which my hon. Friend made on more than one occasion to my predecessor as to the needs of Scotland. The reorganisation of the inspectorate on the lines recommended by the Royal Commission on Mines, which 1200 had first to be taken in hand, has already I been carried out, and the new arrangements for inspection in Scotland which were recently announced will considerably strengthen there the administration of the Acts.
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