§ Mr. HOLLANDasked the Secretary for Mines whether he is aware that in some of the Derbyshire collieries where miners receive a coal allowance as part of their wages the owners are supplying an inferior quality of coal known to be unsaleable, resulting in an increased expenditure by the miners for fuel supplies; and will he take steps to put an end to this, as being contrary to the spirit of the recent agreements regarding wages and conditions in the mining industry 1?
§ Captain CROOKSHANKThe answer to the first part of the question is in the negative. With regard to the second part, the matter is not in any case one in which I could interfere.