Sir H. SAMUELasked the Secretary for Mines whether, in considering legislation for the coal mines, be has obtained information as to whether the organisation of the German Coal Kartells, as described in the appendix to the Report of the Departmental Committee on Cooperative Selling in the Coal Mining Industry, 1926, still continues unchanged; and, if not, what changes there have been?
§ Mr. TURNERMy Department has very full information regarding the Rhenish-Westphalian Syndicate, and, so far as I am aware, there has been no fundamental change in the organisation of the syndicate since the issue of the Report to which the right hon. Gentleman refers.