§ Colonel Clarkeasked the Minister of Fuel and Power how information regarding the numbers of persons killed and injured by accidents in mines and quarries in Great Britain is made available for information to the public.
§ Mr. RobensFigures for the numbers of persons killed at all mines and quarries appear monthly in the Ministry of Labour Gazette and annually in the "Provisional Statement of Number of Deaths by Accidents at Mines and Quarries in Great Britain." The latter is published by my Ministry as soon as possible after the end of each year. The Gazette and the Board of Trade Journal also publish quarterly the figures for the numbers of persons killed at mines under the Coal Mines Act and the numbers of persons injured in accidents which, because of their nature or the severity of the injury are required (by Section 80 of the Act) to be reported immediately.
Details of the numbers of persons killed and seriously injured at mines under the Coal Mines Act are repeated in the Annual Report of His Majesty's Chief Inspector Mines and in the Ministry of Fuel and Power Statistical Digest. The latter publication also includes figures for the numbers of all persons injured and disabled for more than three days at mines under the Coal Mines Act. The figures for these minor injuries (for which benefit is payable, but which are not required to be reported at the time they occur) are necessarily published considerably in arrear.