§ Mr. BOWERMANasked the Lord Advocate whether workmen subpoenaed to attend inquiries into fatal accidents, and who, as a consequence, have to lose a day's work, are entitled to receive the sum of 4s. 9d. only; and whether he will consider the propriety of increasing the amount to the equivalent of the value of the day's wage so lost?
§ Mr. CLYDEBy the terms of the Statutes under which inquiries into fatal accidents are held, witnesses at such inquiries are entitled to such expenses as are paid in criminal trials by jury in the Sheriff Court. Under the scale fixed for the latter the maximum allowance for expenses is 4s. 6d., with the addition of railway fare in certain cases. I have no power to alter that scale, but I shall submit the right hon. Member's suggestion to the proper quarter.