Mr. W. A. JENKINSasked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Transport if he is aware that, owing to depression in the dry steam-coal trade, large, numbers of coal-miners are out of employment in the, lower parts of the Swansea Valley and Neath Valley, respectively; that immediate employment is available for about 200 colliers at the anthracite collieries at Abercrave, Breconshire, only about 10 miles from the localities where so much unemployment exists; and will he immediately urge the railway companies concerned to provide workmen's trains so that a large measure of unemployment may be relieved and also to enable the collieries to be properly developed?
§ Lieut.-Colonel ASHLEYI am making inquiries into the matter and will communicate the result to the hon. Member as soon as possible.