§ 13. Mr. G. HIRSTasked the Secretary for Mines the number of non-fatal and fatal accidents in the mines of Great Britain for the years 1924 and 1925?
§ The SECRETARY for MINES (Colonel Lane Fox)In 1924, 1,218 persons were killed and 197,111 disabled for more than three days at all mines in Great Britain. In 1925, 1,158 persons were killed. The precise number of non-fatal accidents in 1925 is not yet available, but it will probably prove to be about 15,000 less than in the previous year. These figures do not necessarily mean that the accident rate has been reduced as the volume of unemployment has to be taken into account.