§ Mr. JOELasked the Home Secretary whether his attention has been called to the statement in the Workmen's Compensation Statistics, 1931, that the aggregate amount lost between 1927 and 1931 by cases of insolvency in the coal mining industry will be in the neighbourhood of £150,000; and whether, in view of the hardships thus entailed on the sufferers, he will investigate means of preventing any such result in future?
§ Sir J. GILMOUR:I would refer my hon. Friend to the reply given to a question by my hon. Friend the Member for East Leicester (Mr. Lyons) on 7th instant, and to the statement made by the Under-Secretary of State during the course of the Debate on the Workmen's Compensation Bill on the 10th instant.