§ 30. Mr. BUTCHERasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether he has received any Reports for 1915 on the horses and ponies employed in coal mines from the divisional inspectors and horse inspectors other than the few lines contained in the Exports already published for that year; and, if not, whether he will request the divisional inspectors to furnish him with information as to the number of animals employed in the coal mines in 1915, the number of deaths from accident and disease, the number of injuries, and any other material facts?
§ Sir G. CAVEThe Reports of the inspectors have been made as brief as possible, in consequence of the present emergency, but I hope that by next year it will be possible to resume the normal practice, and call for full reports from the inspectors. The figures asked for in the latter part of the question have already been published in Part 2 of the Chief Inspector's General Report for 1915, page 76.
§ Mr. BUTCHERIs it possible to get those reports from the inspectors, though you do not go to the expense of publishing them?
§ Sir G. CAVEYes.