asked the President of the Board of Trade whether the special committee referred to in paragraph 50 of the Report of the Committee under the chairmanship of Viscount Chelmsford (Cmd. 3726) has been appointed; if so, whether he will state its personnel; and whether it has yet issued a report?

Yes, Sir. The Committee was appointed in May, 1931, and consists at present of the following gentlemen:—

• Sir Basil Mayhew, K.B.E. (Chairman), (Chartered Accountant).
• Mr. John Beard (Transport Workers' Union).
• The Right Hon. Lord Bethell, J.P. (Banker).
• Mr. T. Howorth (Chartered Accountant).
• Mr. Frank Hunt, C.V.O. (Valuer to the London County Council).
• Mr. William Leitch, C.B. (Assistant Secretary, His Majesty's Office of Works).
• Mr. G. H. Locock, C.M.G. (Director of the Federation of British Industries).
• Sir Sidney Skinner, J.P. (Past President of the Incorporated Association of Retail Distributors).
• Mr. Claude Taylor, C.V.O., O.B.E. (Department of Overseas Trade and Secretary of the British Industries Fair).

asked the President of the Board of Trade the value of commodities imported and exported through each of the ports of Wales and Monmouthshire in the year 1933?

I regret that the desired information is not yet available, but it will be published in due course in Volume IV of the Annual Statement of the Trade of the United Kingdom for 1933.

asked the President of the Board of Trade whether Chile is included among the countries with which His Majesty's Government intend, if possible, to conclude a trade agreement?

Discussions are at present taking place with the Chilean Government regarding the exchange restrictions and the liquidation of frozen debts. His Majesty's Government do not at present propose to widen the scope of these discussions.

asked the President of the Board of Trade if he will supply a table for the last available year which sets out the imports into the United Kingdom in order to show under each of the main classifications of trade the amounts dutiable under the Import Duties Act and the Ottawa Agreements Act, 1932, in the various ranges of duty; the amounts dutiable under other enactments; and the amounts free of duty, respectively?

I regret that it is not possible to prepare the information asked for in the precise form desired, but my hon. Friend will find in table 8 of volume II of the Annual Statement of the Trade of the United Kingdom particulars of the quantities or values retained (or entered) for home consumption during 1932 of all goods liable to duty, except those liable under the Abnormal Importations Act, the Horticultural Products Act, the Irish Free State (Special Duties) Act, and the Ottawa Agreements Act. The particulars in regard to goods liable to duty under the Import Duties Act given on pages 707–8 of this table are set out in the form described in the question. As regards the exceptions mentioned above, such information as is available, in respect of the year ended 31st March, 1933, is given in the 24th Report of the Commissioners of His Majesty's Customs and Excise (Cmd. 4455).

asked the Minister of Transport the number of fatal accidents occasioned to children in the United Kingdom last year; the number due to road accidents; and the general causes from which the others were sustained?

I have been asked to reply. The particulars asked for by the hon. Member are not yet available for the year 1933, but in 1932 the approximate number of persons in Great Britain under the age of 15 years who died as a result of accidents was 3,700. Of these deaths, approximately 1,450 were due to road accidents; the other principal causes were burns and scalds, suffocation, drowning, falls and inattention at birth.

asked the Minister of Health whether registrars of births, deaths and marriages, who also hold some other public position, act only in the capacity of registrar when registering births, or whether they can carry out the duties attaching to their other position at the same time?

The answer to the first part of the question is in the affirmative. The second part, therefore, does not arise.

asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Education the total of grants paid by the Department in respect of education in Wales during the last financial year; and the amounts levied in rates for the same period?

The grants made by the Board of Education to local education authorities and educational institutions in Wales and Monmouthshire in the financial year ended 31st March, 1934, amounted to £3,605,656. The amount levied in rates for the same period was £2,808,673.

asked the Financial Secretary to the War Office whether instructions of any kind have been issued to Army medical services, or any other department of the Army, in connection with inoculation against diphtheria and inoculation against enteric?

Yes, Sir. I have already been in communication with the hon. Member upon the matter. Immunisation by means of protective inoculation against diphtheria and typhoid fever is on a voluntary basis in the Army, and all ranks, with very few exceptions, take advantage of these preventive measures in their own interests.