asked the Minister of Transport if he has received a Report from the civil engineer as to the practicability of the proposed Forth road-bridge; and, if so, whether any action is contemplated?

I would refer the hon. Member to the oral answer which I gave on the 24th instant to a similar question by the hon. Member for Linlithgow (Mr. Shinwell) and of which I am sending him a copy.

asked the Minister of Transport the mileage of arterial roads that have been built and completed in England and Wales during the three years ended to 31st December, 1928; and the total cost and from which funds this money has been contributed?

As I explained on the 21st June last, in reply to a similar question by the hon. Member for the Abingdon Division, there is no precise definition of an arterial road, and I fear there is accordingly no basis upon which the desired figures could be computed. The annual report upon the administration of the Road Fund gives, however, a general survey of the more important works carried out from year to year.

asked the Minister of of Health (1) how the death of the boy Wilson, of Castleford, who died in November, 1928, from post-vaccinal encephalitis, and in regard to whom the coroner investigating the death returned a verdict of death from natural causes, has been classified in the official records;(2) how the death of the boy Crowe, of Poplar, who died recently of post-vaccinal encephalitis and was certified as having so died by a doctor at the Poplar hospital, has been classified in the official records, seeing that the coroner at the adjourned inquest on 14th January returned a verdict of death from misadventure?

The cause of death was certified by the coroner as "Post-Vaccinal Encephalitis" in the first case, and as "Post-Vaccinal Meningo Encephalitis" in the seconds Both deaths have accordingly been classified under the

asked the Home Secretary the number of cases in each of the four classes of sexual offences against young persons recommended by him to be referred by chief constables to the Director of Public Prosecutions in the Circular 492,077/9, dated 17th September, 1926, which have been so referred since that date?

asked the Minister of Health, if he will investigate the claim of Mrs. M. A. Miller, 15, South Street, Stratford, E., for an old age pension, and state the reasons why the application has up to the present been refused?

This case is not one of a contributory pension, but of a claim to a pension under the Act of 1908. it came before me on an appeal made on the 4th instant against the decision of the local pensions committee, and is now under investigation.

asked the Minister of Health the number of persons in receipt of parish relief in the towns of Devonport and Plymouth, respectively, specifying the various categories, during the month of December, 1926?

I presume that the hon. Member intended to refer to December in the year 1928. The following statement shows the number of persons in receipt of Poor Law relief on the last Saturday in December, 1928, in the parishes of Devonport and Plymouth.

From the 17th September, 1926, to the 7th December, 1928, 63 cases involving offences against 75 girls under 13 have been referred to the Director of Public Prosecutions. In three of these cases, three or more girls were involved and in six cases disease had been communicated. No cases have been referred to the Director under the fourth category added by the Home Office Circular. Cases referred to the Director by the Commissioner of Police are included in the above figures.

asked the Minister of Labour what is the number

asked the Minister of Agriculture the recorded number of cases of foot-and-mouth disease for the months of October, November, and December,

asked the Minister of Agriculture, how of persons, specifying men, women, boys, and girls, on the Devonport and Plymouth Employment Exchanges for the month of December, 1928?

The following table shows the number of persons on the live registers of the Employment Exchanges at Plymouth and Devonport, respectively, on each Monday of December, 1928:1928, and the particular areas in which they were reported?

The following statement shows the number of cases of foot-and-mouth disease, and the counties concerned, during the months of October, November and December, 1928;many counties have demonstration farms; in what counties are they; whether these farms showed a profit or loss in 1927 and 1928; what were their profits or losses;

Twenty counties in England and Wales have demonstration farms. With the exception of the closing account for one farm in 1927–28, all these farms showed losses in the financial years 1926–27 and 1927–28. Details are given in the table below. The losses include loan and landlords' charges, which do not appear in an ordinary