asked the Home Secretary the names of the medical referees on the panel for workmen's compensation cases in the city of Glasgow; the number of claims heard by each during the last year; and the number of cases in which each medical referee certified the workman fit for light or ordinary work?

The following statement gives the names of the medical referees appointed under the Workmen's Compensation Act, 1925, for the Sheriffdom of Lanark, which includes Glasgow, and the number of cases referred to each of these referees during 1930 under Section 19 of the Act.

	Number of cases referred.
General Referees.
John Barlow, M.D., F.R.C.S	134
Sir George Thomas Beatson, K.C.B., K.B.E., M.D., C.M.	156
John Marshall Cowan, M.D.	14
George Henry Edington, M.D., M.R.C.S.	147
James Livingstone Loudon, M.D.	139
Ralph Stockman, M.D.	144
Archibald Young, M.B., C.M.	115
Special Referees for ophthalmic cages.
John Gilchrist, M.D.	116
John Rowan, M.B., C.M.	111
Lieut.-Colonel Hugh Wright Thomson, D.S.O., M.D.	91
Specialist Referee for cases of industrial disease (except ophthalmic cases).
Professor John Glaister, M.D.	23

As regards the information asked for in the last part of the question, I have no official figures, and any comparison between the different referees on this basis would, in my opinion, be most misleading, and could serve no useful purpose.

asked the Secretary of State for Scotland whether, in view of the loss inflicted on Scottish agriculture by millers being prohibited from using sulphur dioxide for the milling of pot and pearl barley and, as those products, so treated, are imported from Holland and Germany, will he take steps to remove this prohibition and thereby enable Scottish barley to be sold and used on equal conditions with foreign supplies?

As this is a matter which cannot be satisfactorily dealt with for Scotland alone, I am arranging to discuss it with my right hon. Friend the Minister of Health. As regards the last part of the question, I would remind the hon. Member that under the regulations imported articles of food are subject to the same conditions as articles produced at home, and that, so far as the prohibition of sulphur dioxide is concerned, Scottish barley and foreign supplies are in the same position.

asked the Minister of Transport what progress has been made in the substitution of steel for wood in the construction of railway coaches; how many persons have been killed or injured in railway accidents during the last year for which figures are available; and in how many of these accidents were steel coaches involved?

I understand that modern railway coaches are constructed mainly of steel, and that a certain number of coaches consisting almost entirely of steel have been built by the railway companies for trial purposes. My hon. Friend will find particulars of the numbers of persons killed or injured in railway accidents during last year in the preliminary- returns of railway accidents recently issued. I cannot say in how many of these accidents steel coaches were involved.

asked the Minister of Transport if he is able to give any information of the present position as regards the Charing Cross and Waterloo bridges scheme?

I understand that the London County Council have not yet come to a decision upon the report of the advisory committee appointed by them regarding Charing Cross bridge, and that pending a decision being reached with regard to this bridge, they have deferred the reconstruction of Waterloo Bridge.

asked the Minister of Transport whether he proposes to issue in compact form for the information of motorists the different road traffic regulations which have been, and are being, issued by his Department, especially in view of their variety and multiplicity?

As I stated on 4th June in reply to a question by the hon. Member for Leith (Mr. E. Brown), it is my intention, when the Regulations which are of general interest have assumed a permanent form, to have them grouped according to their subject matter and made available in a convenient and compact shape.

asked the Minister of Transport what steps are being taken by his Department to deal with the increasing congestion at the level crossings in High Street and Pelham Street, Lincoln?

My hon. Friend will recall at the conference held at the Ministry, of Transport on 5th February, 1931, between representatives of the Lincoln Town Council, the London and North Eastern Railway Company and the London, Midland and Scottish Railway Company, at which he was present, it was agreed that a meeting of the technical officers of the council and the companies should be arranged to decide on a scheme for the elimination of the level crossings referred to. This meeting took place on 8th April, 1931, when I understand that the railway companies' representatives agreed to prepare a preliminary scheme for consideration by the parties concerned. My Department is prepared actively to co-operate in the further stages and the council will doubtless communicate with me as soon as a preliminary scheme has been prepared.

asked the Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies whether any Colonies are participating in the present Colonial Exhibition at Paris, and to what extent?

None of the British Colonies is participating in this exhibition, but information is available at the bureau organised by His Majesty's Government in the Cité dos Informations which adjoins the main section of the exhibition. In this connection I would refer the Noble Lord to the reply given to the hon. and gallant Member for Midlothian North (Major Colville) on 18th May, of which I am sending him a copy.

asked the President of the Board of Trade the total exports of commodities produced in Great Britain to Tanganyika during the first four months of the present year and the percentage of these figures to the total import of the territory, with the corresponding totals and percentages of the trade with Japan during the same period?

Particulars of the imports of merchandise into Tanganyika are at present only available in respect of the first two months of this year. During this period the value of the total imports was £525,256, of which £232,359, or 44.2 per cent. was recorded as from the United Kingdom, and £43,975, or 8.4 percent. from Japan.

asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs what contracts for warlike stores of all kinds have been placed by the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics and Poland, respectively; with what firms and countries; and to what total value?

No particulars are available as regards contracts placed by the Soviet Government and the Polish Government either in their own or in foreign countries. So far as this country is concerned, licences to export war material have been issued in the last two years covering, in the case of Soviet Russia, 40 tanks and 26 armoured vehicles, with trailers, armament and ammunition, a small quantity of spare parts and some armament for aircraft; and, in the case of Poland, a tank, two light armoured vehicles and a few guns, machine guns, and torpedoes, together with spare parts and ammunition.

asked the Minister of Health how many housing associations to build houses to let have begun to operate under the latest Housing Act; whether any encouragement is given to these voluntary associations; and whether the councils of Harpenden, Ware, Dorking, and Erith have yet begun to take advantage of the proposals or whether they propose to build direct or by contract under their authority?

I am aware of two cases in which arrangements are being made between a local authority and a public utility society under Section 29 of the Housing Act, 1930, but I am not aware of the making of any such arrangement by the councils mentioned in the second part of the question. The Ware Council have, however, undertaken to grant a loan under the Housing Act, 1925, and subsidy under the Housing Act of 1924 to a public utility society proposing to erect houses for letting.

asked the Minister of Health if He is aware that wooden hutments built in 1916 to be habitable for seven years are now being sold to private purchasers where possible and, where decontrolled, are being re-let at 25 per cent. above purchase price from His Majesty's Office of Works; and whether any steps are being taken in Welling, Woolwich, Greenwich or Dudley to include these worn-out temporary hutments in the Housing Act, 1930?

I am informed by my right hon. Friend the First Commissioner of Works that he has no knowledge of the matters referred to in the first part of the question. As regards the second part, my right hon. Friend the Minister is not aware of any declaration under Part I of the Housing Act, 1930, in respect of hutments of this kind in any of the four places named.

asked the Minister of Health, for England and Wales and for the seaports, including London, the number of unemployed persons who have been compelled to accept institutional relief during each of the past five years?

The number of persons receiving institutional relief on account of unemployment is not distinguished in the returns furnished to my Department. It is probably very small.

asked the Minister of Health, for England and Wales, and separately for the seaports, including London, the numbers of unemployed persons who have applied for and been granted outdoor relief during each of the past five years?

The returns made to my Department show the number of persons receiving poor relief on specified dates, and not the number of persons who have been granted poor relief during any period. The desired information is therefore not available. Summaries of the returns made by local authorities are published quarterly by my Department.

asked the Minister of Health the Regulations governing the scales of outdoor relief now in operation in England and Wales and in London, respectively; whether there are maxima and minima; and whether action is taken against public assistance committees which do not adhere to the Regulations?

There are no Regulations governing scales of outdoor relief, and the second and third parts of the question do not, therefore, arise.