HC Deb 22 March 1927 vol 204 cc183-4 The Minister of Transport and the Secretary for Mines announce that they have appointed a Standing Committee to be known as the Standing Committee on Mineral Transport with the following terms of reference:— To review the equipment available in connection with the transport of coal from the coalfields to the ports and internal markets of the country and the methods of conducting such transport, and, with special reference to the recommendations of the Royal Commission on the Coal Industry (1925), to devise means of promoting such improvements in that equipment and its use as will lead to the greatest efficiency and economy in transport, and be of mutual advantage to the coal mining industry and the transport agencies; to report to the Minister of Transport and to the Secretary for Mines upon the steps taken, and upon any further measures necessary from time to time to bring about desirable alterations, and generally to watch over this matter and the progressive realisation of the economies and improvements which the report of the Royal Commission considers possible.

The Committee is constituted as follows:—

The Joint Secretaries,

Standing Committee on Mineral

Transport,

7, Whitehall Gardens, S.W.I.