HC Deb 30 June 1938 vol 337 cc2143-4W
Mr. Leslie Boyce

asked the Minister of Transport who are the present members of the Standing Joint Committee on Mineral Transport; how often this committee has met during the past two years; whether the committee has reported annually to His Majesty's Government as required by its terms of reference; and whether the Government has acted on such reports?

Mr. Burgin

The present members of the Standing Committee on Mineral Transport are as follow:

Duncan Bailey, Esq., O.B.E., M.Inst.T., Director of Charles Roberts amp;& Company, Horbury, Wakefield, Yorks.

Robert Bell, Esq., C.B.E., Assistant General Manager, London and North Eastern Railway.

Ernest Bevin, Esq., General Secretary, Transport and Gereral Workers' Union.

H. W. Cole, Esq., C.B., C.B.E., Deputy Under-Secretary, Mines Department.

F. W. Cooper. Esq., Partner in the firm of Messrs. Cornwall & Moger, Coal Merchants.

H. L. Greig, Esq., Coal and Coke Exporter and Bunkering Contractor.

T. G. Hardie, Esq., Managing Director of Messrs. Archibald Russell, Limited, Glasgow Colliery Proprietors.

H. J. Heath, Esq., Director of Glyncorrwg Colliery Company, Limited.

H. G. Lewis, Esq., J.P., Director of Glamorgan Wagon Company, Limited, North Glamorgan Wagon Company.

P. R. Le Mare, Esq., Messrs. Ricket Cockerill & Company, 52, Mark Lane, E.C.3.

Sir James Milne, C.S.I., General Manager, Great Western Railway.

G. S. Szlumper, Esq., C.B.E., General Manager, Southern Railway.

Sir Lionel Warner, C.B.E., General Manager and Secretary, Mersey Docks and Harbour Board.

E. J. H. Lemon, Esq., O.B.E., Vice-President, London, Midland and Scottish Railway Company.

J. Marchbank, Esq., Industrial General Secretary, National Union of Railwaymen.

The committee has not met during the last two years and its terms of reference do not call for annual reports. The committee made a report in 1929 and certain action was taken thereon.