HC Deb 28 July 1938 vol 338 c3325W
Mr. Collindridge

asked the Secretary for Mines whether he will make regulations permitting boys at the pits to be relieved from their work to attend safety classes and to make payment to such boys for loss of remunerative time?

Captain Crookshank

It seems doubtful if there is power under the Coal Mines Act to make such regulations, and in any case I should not feel justified in proposing any far-reaching regulations on the subject, until I have received and considered the report of the Royal Commission to which other important proposals have been submitted in evidence.