§ 35. Mr. D. G. SOMERVILLEasked the President of the Board of Trade if the Government is taking steps to make the necessary alterations in the existing law affecting the use of life-saving appliances on the lines of the recommendations of the Report of the Merchant Shipping Advisory Committee; and when the necessary regulations will be laid before Parliament?
Mr. WEBBAmended regulations have been drafted, and the draft is being settled by the Board of Trade in consultation with the Advisory Committee. The draft raises some difficult questions which require very careful consideration, but I hope it will be possible to lay the new rules before Parliament in the course of a few weeks.