asked the Minister of Labour how many unemployed workers have been deprived of benefits under the Unemployment Insurance Acts for not genuinely seeking work from April to October this year at Jarrow, Hebburn and Felling-on-Tyne?

The following table shows the numbers of claims to benefit made at Jarrow, Hebburn and Felling Employment Exchanges disallowed on the ground "not genuinely seeking work" during the period 12th March, 1929, to 14th October, 1929:

asked the Minister of Labour the number of men in training in each of the training centres on 1st November, 1929; the trades to which they are being trained; and how these figures compare with the numbers of trainees on 1st November, 1928?

The figures for 1st November, 1928 and 1929, are not available, but on 26th October, 1928, and 28th October, 1929, the numbers of men in training for employment in this country at Government training centres were as follow:

asked the Minister of Labour the number of persons, specifying men, women, boys and girls, on the Tyneside Employment Exchanges, respectively, for the month of November, 1929?

The following Table shows the numbers of persons on the registers of Employment Exchanges in the Tyneside area on each Monday of November, 1929:

asked the Minister of Labour whether the Woolwich Borough Council has recently submitted to the Unemployment Grants Committee, as a scheme of relief, the making up of Avery Hill Road what reply has been made to such proposal; and whether any scheme for the relief of unemployment in Woolwich and at the same time helping the distressed areas has yet been submitted and approved?

The answer to the first part of the question is in the affirmative. As regards the other parts

asked the Secretary for Mines if he has any information to

asked the Secretary for Mines what is the number of workers employed in the coal mines of Poland; and what are the hours of labour, calculated on the basis adopted in Table 17 of the Report of the Royal Commission on the Coal Industry, 1925, p. 170?

The information is as follows:show whether the figures given in the Report of the Royal Commission on the Coal Industry, 1925, page 57, as to the number of separate undertakings in the Westphalian and the Pas de Calais coalfields still hold good; if not, what changes there have been since the date of that report; and what is now the annual output of each of those coalfields?

The number of separate undertakings in the Rhenish Westphalian coalfields in 1927, the latest year for which information of this kind is available, was 50, and the output of coal in that year was 118,022,086 metric tons. For the current year, the estimated output, based on the first nine months, is 121,750,000 metric tons. In the Pas de Calais coalfield there are 15 separate undertakings and, for the current year, the estimated output, based on the first nine months, is 25,000,000 metric tons.

asked the Secretary for Mines whether his attention has been called to the methods of coal-getting adopted by the Cannock Chase Colliery Company, Limited; and whether he has any statement to make with regard to the success of the new methods adopted?

The hon. Member will find the coal-getting methods adopted by this company explained fully in the Annual Reports for 1927 and 1928 of the Divisional Inspector for the Midland and Southern Division. The company claim that the system has been an economic success, and that its introduction has been

asked the Secretary of State for War whether he is prepared to revise the regulations that prevent

asked the Secretary of State for War what percentage of boys who join Officers' Training Corps and Cadet Corps eventually join any branch of the Army?

The figures for 1928 are shown below. In the case of the Cadet Corps they are compiled from records obtained from officers commanding Cadet units, and are not necessarily exhaustive.pensions being paid to the widows and children of men who are accidentally killed when serving in the armed forces abroad if they are killed when off duty, even though the accident is in no way attributable to the soldier's negligence or fault?

I regret that I am unable to alter the regulations on the lines suggested by my hon. Friend.

asked the Secretary of State for War what changes have been made in the strength of British battalions at home and foreign stations, giving in each case the corresponding increase in the strength of supply and other services?

There has been no change in the establishment of an infantry battalion since 1924–25.

asked the Secretary of State for War what proportion of boys trained in the Church Lads Brigade under the War Office scheme ultimately join the King's Royal Rifle Corps or other branches of the Army; and whether it is proposed to extend the scheme of military training to other religious organisations?

On 31st October, 1928, the strength of the officially recognised units of the Church Lads Brigade was 19,515, and during the 12 months preceding that date the number of members and ex-members of the brigade who enlisted in the Regular Army and Territorial Army was 163 and 270, respectively. Separate figures for enlistments into the King's Royal Rifle Corps are not available. As regards the second part of the question, religious organisations are not invited to raise cadet units, but if any such organisation were to apply for recognition of cadet units, the application would be considered on its merits.