§ 7. Colonel LANE FOXasked the Secretary for Mines whether he has yet been able to set up his promised independent committee of inquiry into the working of the Miners' Welfare Fund; and whether he can state its terms of reference and the names of its chairman and members?
§ Mr. SHINWELLI am glad to be able to announce that Lord Chelmsford has provisionally consented to act as chairman of this committee. The details of the remaining personnel have not yet been finally settled, but I have invited the Mining Association of Great Britain and the Miners' Federation of Great Britain to nominate one member each. I propose that the committee's terms of reference should be wide, and should include inquiry into the use already made of the fund, and its future scope and administration, with particular reference to the amount and duration of the levy.