§ 32. Mr. ROWLANDSasked the Secretary for Mines the numbers of fatal and non-fatal accidents per 1,000 men employed in the chief coal-producing countries outside Great Britain during 1935, and the corresponding figures for British coalfields as a whole and for North and South Wales separately?
§ Captain CROOKSHANKI regret that the information desired is not available except in respect of fatal accidents in the British coalfields referred to, the figures for which per 1,000 persons employed are: Great Britain 1.10, South Wales 1.22 and North Wales O.68. A statement giving the fatal and non-fatal accident rates in the principal coal-producing countries over a representative period and so far as possible on a comparable basis, is, however, being pre pared at the request of the Royal Commission on Safety in Coal Mines, and I will send a copy of it to my hon. Friend so soon as it is ready.