HC Deb 14 February 1929 vol 225 c523
10. Mr. GIBBINS

asked the Home Secretary if he will state the number of accidents that have occurred in the building industry during the last 12 months?

Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKS

The total number of accidents reported in 1928 under the buildings provisions of the Factory and Workshop Act, 1901, as provisionally ascertained, was 3,754, but this figure includes a substantial number of accidents to persons not employed in the building industry, and I am not at present in a position to give any separate figure for that industry. I shall be glad to forward the information to the hon. Member as soon as it is available.