Mr. A. TODDasked the Secretary for Mines whether his attention has been 368W drawn to the recent subsidence, due to coal mining, at Quarry Bank, Staffordshire; and what steps the Government propose to take, in view of the Royal Commission report on coal subsidence of 1923, to relieve the position of tenants in the coal-mining areas?
§ Mr. E. BROWNThe answer to the first part of the question is in the affirmative. With regard to the second part of the question, the problem, as my hon. Friend is aware, raises many issues of a most complicated and contentious nature, and in the present state of Parliamentary business I am afraid I cannot hold out any hope of its consideration.