Clause 2. — (General provisions as to functions of the Commission under Part 1)

Part of Orders of the Day — Coal Bill. – in the House of Commons at on 6 December 1937.

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Mr. David Adams:

May I ask the hon. Member for Wallsend (Miss Ward) whether she has read the annual reports of the Inspector of Mines, which make it perfectly clear that there was gross neglect in the collieries of the country and that in the report of the Northern Division 52 per cent. of the accidents were stated by the Inspector to be avoidable?