§ Mr. LAWSONasked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Transport whether he is aware that workmen on the Port Talbot section and the Rhondda and Swansea Bay section of the Great Western Railway are being discharged as a result of the grouping under the Railways Act, 1921, without being granted any compensation as provided for in the Act, and that many men are worsened as a result of the operation of the Act, and, in view of the provisions of the Act, what steps he proposes to take in the matter?
§ Colonel ASHLEYI have no knowledge of the circumstances to which the hon. Member refers in the first part of his question. The Third Schedule of the Railways Act, 1921, provides machinery for the settlement by arbitration of questions of this character which cannot be settled by agreement, but I understand that no actual appeals have yet been made under these provisions. If I am furnished with particulars of the cases which the hon. Member has in mind, I shall be happy to consider whether there are any steps I could usefully take.