asked the Secretary for Mines, whether he has any information as to the proposed agreement for the regulation of output from the South Wales mines?

I have no information beyond the statements that have appeared in the Press.

asked the Prime Minister whether he is aware of the increase in the number of disabled miners who are being deprived of their legal rights to compensation benefits due to the failure of many colliery companies who have gone into liquidation in recent years to insure against their liabilities to their injured workmen under the Workmen's Compensation Acts; and will he undertake to remedy this grievance by legislation before the close of the present Parliament?

I would refer the hon. Member to the answers given yesterday by my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for the Home Department. Inquiries are being made, but at present I can add nothing to those answers.

asked the Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs whether he is now in a position to state the outcome of the negotiations with the Canadian Deputy Minister of Immigration with respect to British settlement in Canada?

No, Sir. But as I have stated in reply to previous questions on this subject, I hope to be in a position to make a statement on the subject before the House rises for the Christmas Recess. I would at the same time refer my hon. Friend to the answer I am giving to-day to a private notice question on the reduction of migrant fares to Canada.

asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he has received any protests from electrical and allied manufacturers against the payment of German reparations in kind; and whether there is any intention to discontinue the existing reparations system?

The answer to the first part of the question is in the negative. In reply to the second part of the question, it has been decided to set up a Committee to make recommendations for the final settlement of the reparations question, but it is, of course, impossible to say whether, or in what way, any plan for the final settlement of reparations which may be adopted by the Governments concerned will alter the existing system of deliveries in kind.

asked the Minister of Health the amount of extra revenue the Metropolitan Water Board will receive in consequence of the increase in assessments of property within the area covered by the Board; the present rate-able value of the said area on which they levy the water rate; and the rate-able value when the assessments are increased?

An increase in assessments will not necessarily result in any increase in the revenue of the Water Board, since the revenue in any year is determined by reference to the annual expenditure on revenue account for that year and the rate is fixed at an amount which, with other income, will be sufficient, so far as can be estimated, to meet the annual expenditure. I am unable to give the information asked for in the second and third parts of the question.

asked the Minister of Health whether, as a result of later information and the experience in administering the Widows', Orphans', and Old Age Contributory Pensions Act, 1925, any modification is needed of the statement made on page 9 of the Report by the Government Actuary on the Financial Provisions (Cmd. 2406, 1925) with regard to the effect of the decennial increases of contribution upon the proportion which the contribution paid for future entrants into insurance at the age of 16 will bear of the whole cost of the benefits up to the age of 70 conferred by the new scheme and of the cost of the old age pensions to which they will become entitled at 70?

No, Sir. Section 43 of the Act provides for periodical Reports from the Government Actuary which will cover the subject of this question, but in view of the full estimates made in 1925 it would be premature to ask for such a Report at the present time.

asked the President of the Board of Trade the position of the seven wireless beacons that are at present in course of erection, and when it is expected that these beacons will be in operation?

The following statement gives the information desired by the hon. Member: