asked the Minister of Labour the number of miners unemployed in the county of Durham during May, 1933, and May, 1934?

The numbers of insured persons in the coal mining industry classification recorded as unemployed at Employment Exchanges in the county of Durham at the dates in question were as follow:

asked the Minister of Labour the number of unemployed in the county of Durham, including the boroughs, during May, 1933, and May, 1934?

The number of unemployed persons on the registers of Employment Exchanges in the county of Durham, including the boroughs, was 176,206 at 22nd May, 1933, and 145,306 at 14th May, 1934.

asked the Minister of Labour the number of insured workers in Lancashire, Yorkshire, Durham, Northumberland, and Cumberland in 1933; and the total number of unemployed in those counties in the same year?

The following table shows the estimated numbers of insured persons at the beginning of July, 1933, and the numbers of persons (insured and uninsured) registered at Employment Exchanges, in the counties specified, as unemployed at 26th June, 1933.

asked the Minister of Labour the total number of insured workers in Bedford, Berkshire, Buckingham, Cambridge, Essex, Hertford, Kent, Middlesex, Oxford, Surrey, and Sussex, in 1933; and the number of unemployed in those counties in the same year?

The following table shows the estimated numbers of insured persons at the beginning of July, 1933, and the numbers of persons (insured and uninsured) registered at Employment Exchanges, in the counties specified, as unemployed at 26th June, 1933.

asked the First Lord of the Admiralty how many Naval ratings and Royal Marines, respectively, were invalided from His Majesty's Navy suffering from tuberculosis during the years 1931, 1932 and 1933, respectively; and in how many cases was it claimed that the disease was not attributable to the Service?

I regret that separate statistics are not available for Naval ratings and Royal Marines. The total numbers invalided on account of pulmonary tuberculosis in 1931, 1932 and 1933 were 156, 190 and 173, respectively. The cases in which the disease was held to be not attributable to the Service numbered 45 in 1931, 42 in 1932 and 29 in 1933.

asked the First Lord of the Admiralty the percentages of leading ratings, petty officers and chief petty officers, respectively, of the seamen, signal, telegraphist, and stoker branches, respectively, serving in His Majesty's Navy?

The information desired is shown in the following table:

asked the Secretary of State for Scotland if the conditions of service of the Scottish prison officers have been fully assimilated with the conditions obtaining in the English prison service; if he will state the reason why the period of wear of the greatcoats of the Scottish warders was extended two years before the alteration in the English prison service; and is he aware that the Scottish pprison officers have to wear their greatcoats to and from duty in rough weather during the summer and autumn owing to having no light waterproof covering?

As regards the first and second parts of the question, I would refer the hon. Member to the replies given to him on 14th March and 30th April last to the effect that the pay and conditions of service in Scotland are generally assimilated to those obtaining in England, though differences in circumstances in certain respects require to be taken into account, and that the period of wear of prison officers' greatcoats in Scotland was extended in 1922 because the greatcoats in general were found to remain serviceable for a longer period. As regards the third part of the question, as explained in the first reply above mentioned, practically every officer in the Scottish Prisons Service is provided with official quarters adjacent to the prison. While an adequate number of waterproof cloaks is maintained for general issue to officers when required, a routine issue of such cloaks in every case is not found necessary; and as the journeys to and from duty are so short, it would not appear that any hardship is suffered, even if greatcoats be worn for such journeys in rough weather.

asked the Minister of Health how many cases of diphtheria and deaths from that disease have occurred in Dewsbury in immunised children since immunisation was first started in that town; and how many months had elapsed since the last inoculation before diphtheria developed in these cases?

The following is the information furnished by the local authority on this subject.The number of cases of diphtheria and deaths therefrom occurring in "immunised" children was as follows:

asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether the Chinese Government has now regained full freedom of action in Chinese territory south of the Great Wall; and, if not, what are the causes of outside interference with the Chinese administration?

To the best of my information the answer to the first part of the question is in the affirmative except that Chinese troops, in common with Japanese, are prohibited by the terms of the armistice agreement of 31st May, 1933, from entering the area known as the demilitarised zone.

asked the Home Secretary whether he has received a report from the Commissioner of Police in con- nection with the anti-Fascist meeting held in Hyde Park on Sunday; whether there were any breaches of the peace; and if a record was kept by the police of the statements made by the speakers in connection with the Fascist meeting held at Olympia on 7th June?

Yes, Sir; I have obtained a report from the Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis who informs me that an anti-Fascist rally and demonstration, convened by the London district party committee of the Communist party of Great Britain, was held in Hyde Park on the 17th instant. There was no disorder at any time and no arrests were made. The answer to the last part of the question is in the affirmative.