asked the Minister of Health in respect of how many areas referred to in the report of the National Park Committee, 1931, appropriate planning committees under the Town and Country Planning Act have already been set up or are contemplated ?

Regional committees have been set up or are contemplated for the following areas:—Lake District, South Downs, High Peak District, Derbyshire, and Cannock Chase.

asked the Postmaster-General, the number to date of meetings of the Post Office Advisory Committee and the suggestions put forward by any of its members which have been officially adopted?

Two meetings of the advisory council itself and one of a subcommittee have been held to date, and a further meeting of the council is being held this month. As regards the latter part of the question, as stated in my reply to the hon. Member for Romford (Mr. Hutchison) on 6th March, 1933, title practice has always been to regard the proceedings of the council as being confidential, and any departure from this practice would, in my opinion, detract from the usefulness of that body.

asked the Secretary for Mines the average and highest temperatures of working places in the mines of Lancashire, South and West Yorkshire, North and South Midland Divisions, and South Wales; if it is due to the circumstance of high temperature that a comparatively small number of ponies are employed in the Lancashire coalfield; and whether any similar circumstances prevail in the neighbouring English coalfields in which relatively higher numbers of ponies are employed below ground ?

Temperatures in the working places of a mine vary from time to time, and I regret that comprehensive figures such as are asked for by the hon. Member are not available; in any case the significance of such figures would depend on other factors such as the humidity and movement of the air. It is only at some of the deeper mines in Lancashire that the temperatures are unusually high, and this has little bearing on the relatively small number of horses employed in the county. The generally high inclinations of the seams lend themselves to other methods of haulage, and this statement applies to mines in other coalfields where similar conditions exist.

asked the Minister of Agriculture if he can now make any further statement with regard to the extent, if any, to which he will be able to encourage light-horse breeding, in conjunction with the War Office, in the near future?

I regret that I am not in a position to add to the reply given on my behalf on 19th June to a question by my hon. and gallant Friend the Member for Newbury (Brigadier-General Brown).

asked the Home Secretary how many police officers in the Metropolitan Police Force and in the provincial police forces were involved in the years 1931 and 1932 in rescues attended with risk in rescuing persons and animals from drowning, in rescuing persons and animals from buildings on fire, and in stopping runaway horses, respectively; how many police officers have been killed; how many injured permanently; and how many incapacitated temporarily in effecting these rescues?

A return, of which a summary is appended, has been obtained from all chief officers of police in England and Wales, covering the particulars asked for in the question: police firemen are not included. This return shows the number of police concerned in the rescues and the number temporarily incapacitated by injuries received therein. In no case was any man killed or permanently incapacitated in effecting these rescues during 1931 or 1932.