HC Deb 19 December 1933 vol 284 cc1124-6W
Mr. E. WILLIAMS

asked the Minister of Labour the number of persons in receipt of transitional payments and unemployment benefits, respectively, for the years 1929, 1930, 1931, 1932 and 1933, upon the Bridgend, Aberkenfig, Maesteg, Pontycymmer and Ogmore Vale Employment Exchanges?

Sir H. BETTERTON

Separate statistics of the numbers of persons with claims admitted for standard and transitional benefits, respectively, are not available for 1929. The following table gives the information desired for November of each year since 1930, but in view of the changes in the conditions for the receipt of insurance benefit which came into operation in November, 1931, the figures for 1930 are not strictly comparable with those for later years.

ber, 1933, specifying the various causes; and the comparative figure for the last five years?

Mr. E. BROWN

The information is as follows:

Number of Persons Killed and Seriously Injured* by Accidents at Mines tinder the Coal Mines Act, 1911, during the first eleven months of each of the years 1928 to 1933.
Place and cause of accident. 1928. 1929. 1930. 1931. 1932. 1933.
Killed. Seriously injured. Killed. Seriously injured. Killed. Seriously injured. Killed. Seriously injured. Killed. Seriously injured. Killed. Seriously injured.
Below ground:
Explosions of firedamp or coal dust. 36 71 29 94 60 107 106 99 61 103 35 50
Falls of ground 456 1,627 539 1,691 468 1,494 390 1,328 400 1,268 405 1,223
Shaft accidents 28 95 39 91 29 29 16 60 38 34 28 27
Haulage accidents 221 1,003 209 972 218 933 164 801 164 752 140 649
Other miscellaneous accidents 99 645 114 677 72 622 62 470 78 493 67 426
Above ground:
On railways, sidings and tramways. 38 119 39 116 28113 31 104 29 116 24 83
Other accidents 44 252 38 246 40 203 34 178 37 189 32 163
Total 922 3,812 1,007 3,887 915 3,501 803 3,040 807 2,955 731 2,621
* The following classes of accidents, which are reported at the time of their occurrence to H.M. Divisional Inspectors of Mines, are included, namely: (a) Accidents causing fracture of head or limb, or dislocation of limb, or any other serious personal injury; (b) Accidents caused by explosion of gas or dust, or by electricity or by overwinding, and causing any personal injury whatever. The majority of these accidents involve a period of disablement of more than three days