HC Deb 22 April 1929 vol 227 c598
3. Mr. SNELL

asked the Under-Secretary of State for India whether he will give the number of women employed underground in those mines it is proposed to exempt from the Regulations prohibiting the use of female labour underground in Indian mines?

Earl WINTERTON

In 1927—the latest year for which statistics are available—the average daily number of women employed underground in the mines in question was 28,393.