§ Mr. Hector Hughesasked the Secretary of State for Scotland, in view of the fact that he has ordered an inquiry to be held into the deaths and injuries caused at Dancing Cairns Quarry, Aberdeen, how many people, and of what ages and sexes, were, during the last 10 years, killed and injured, respectively, at that quarry; and how many families thereby sustained loss.
§ Mr. MaclayIn the last 10 years three boys, one aged 15 and the other two aged 10 years, were killed in the Quarry; one man aged 64 died there and28W one aged 52 was presumed to have been drowned there. A boy, aged 9, was seriously injured in the Quarry last year. None of these persons had the same surname.
§ Mr. Hector Hughesasked the Secretary of State for Scotland, in view of the fact that he has ordered an inquiry to be held into the losses by death and personal injury sustained at Dancing Cairns Quarry, Aberdeen, who are the owners of the quarry; and in what circumstances they worked the quarry and then left the quarry in its present derelict and dangerous condition.
§ Mr. MaclayMy right hon. and learned Friend the Lord Advocate has instructed the holding of an inquiry under the Fatal Accidents and Sudden Deaths Inquiry (Scotland) Act, 1906, into the death that occurred in Dancing Cairns Quarry on 2nd March, 1958. I understand that the owners of the quarry are the Adamant Stone and Paving Company. As a public inquiry will be held it would not be appropriate for me to comment further.