§ Mr. DUNCAN MILLARasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he can state the particular collieries in Lanarkshire which the central rescue station referred to in the report of the chief inspector of mines for the Scotland Division is intended to serve; whether the sites for the other rescue stations to be erected in Lanarkshire, also referred to in the report, have yet been selected; and, if so, where these stations are to be erected and what collieries they will serve?
§ Mr. McKENNAI am informed that, in addition to the station at Coatbridge, which will serve the collieries within a 10-mile radius of that place, it has been decided to erect stations at (1) Larbert, for the Stirlingshire area; (2) in the neighbourhood of Lesmahagow, for the detached portion of the Lanarkshire coalfield; and (3) at Bathgate, for the Linlithgowshire portion of the coalfield. It is not yet possible to name the exact collieries to be served by each station, but I understand that when all the stations are completed the whole of the collieries belonging to the owners who are members of the Coal Masters' Association in Lanarkshire, Renfrewshire, Dumbartonshire, Stirlingshire, and Linlithgowshire, will be provided for.