§ 32. Mr. DUNCAN MILLARasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he can state what progress has now been made in erecting and equipping rescue stations in the coalfields of Scotland; and when it is expected that the rescue station now in course of erection in Lanarkshire will be completed?
§ The UNDER-SECRETARY for the HOME DEPARTMENT (Mr. Cecil Harmsworth)There are at present three central rescue stations open and complete, namely, at Cowdenbeath in Fife, and at Kilmarnock and Auchinleck in Ayrshire; and a fourth, at Edinburgh, connected with the Heriot-Watt College, will be opened next week. The Lanarkshire station at Coatbridge has been erected, and, but for the War, it would, I understand, have been fully equipped by now. It will be ready very shortly.