asked the Minister of Transport whether his attention has been drawn to the high incidence of accidents on the roads at Trafalgar Square, the Haymarket, Tottenham Court Road, and New Kent Road; what are the principal causes; and what action he proposes to take?

I am aware that the number of accidents in the streets referred to by the hon. Member is regrettably high, but from the information before me I do not think that these streets can be distinguished in this respect from other comparable streets in the Metropolitan area. It has not been possible to classify all the accidents in London according to the streets in which they have occurred, but I have no reason to believe that the principal causes of the accidents in the streets referred to differ materially from those set out in Table V of the Second Report on Street Accidents in Greater London by the London Traffic Advisory Committee which was published in 1929. This report also contains recommendations for increasing the safety of the streets and copies of the report as well as of the recommendations adopted by the Conference on Street Accidents which was convened by me in January of last year have been issued to all the highway authorities concerned.

asked the Minister of Health the number of persons in receipt of Poor Law relief in the City of Plymouth, specifying categories, for the month of March, 1931?

The following statement shows the number of persons in receipt of poor relief in the City of Plymouth on Saturday, 28th March, 1931:

asked the Minister of Health whether it is his intention to issue a further précis of decisions on appeals under Section 29 of the Widows', Orphans' and Old Age Contributory Pensions Act, 1925, similar to that issued in 1927; and, if so, whether he will see that there is included in the volume a suitable selection of Scottish decisions?

There is no intention at present of publishing a further precis of decisions on appeals under Section 29 of the Contributory Pensions Act, but the matter may be reconsidered when a sufficient number of decisions involving new points has been accumulated. Any inquiry regarding the publication of decisions given by the referees in Scotland should be addressed to the Secretary of State for Scotland.