§ Mr. WALSHasked the Secretary for Mines in how many counties the employers in the coal-mining industry have organised for the purpose of scientific research, and the amount spent during the last year for which figures are available?
§ Colonel LANE FOXThe colliery owners have a national research association, and many of them are associated also with the research work of the Institution of Mining Engineers. Locally, there is a Lancashire and Cheshire Coal Research Association, and in this and other coalfields some of the colliery owners, individually and through their associations, co-operate in research work carried on at the universities and by the 2095W local Institutions of Mining Engineers. I have no information as to the amount spent.