asked the Postmaster-General how many villages and parishes in Lindsey of over 200 inhabitants are still without public telephone facilities?

In the Parliamentary county of the Parts of Lindsey there are 19 parishes with more than 200 inhabitants in which there is no public telephone call office actually in the parish.

asked the Financial Secretary to the Treasury the amount of loans sanctioned by the Public Works Loans Commissioners in each of the years 1930, 1931, 1932, 1933, and 1934?

The following table gives the latest available information. The figures for each completed year will be found in paragraph 1 of the annual reports of the Public Works Loan Board:

asked the President of the Board of Trade the amount of tanker tonnage launched or ordered in Great Britain during the last 12 months; and whether any estimate can be given as to the amount of direct and indirect employment involved?

According to the returns published by Lloyd's Register of Shipping, the tonnage of tankers of 1,000 tons and upwards launched in Great Britain and Ireland during 1934 was 69,066 tons gross, and the tonnage of tankers under construction at the end of December, 1934, was 94,000 tons gross. No accurate information is available as to the amount of labour involved.

asked the Minister of Labour how many women were recommended by the Departments as suitable for promotion to posts in the administrative, executive, higher clerical, and staff officer grades in the Unemployment Assistance Board; and, of the women so recommended, how many were in fact interviewed by promotion boards of the Unemployment Assistance Board?

124 women were recommended by Government Departments as suitable for consideration for appointment to posts under the Unemployment Assistance Board in the administrative, executive, higher clerical, and staff officer grades. Of these, 20 were interviewed by selection panels.

asked the Minister of Labour how many men and women, respectively, have been appointed to the following grades in the Unemployment Assistance Board: assistant secretaries, administrative principals, assistant principals, senior executive, junior executive, higher clerical, regional officers, district officers, assistant district officers, and area officers?

There were 442 men and 35 women of these grades in the service of the board on 12th February, 1935.

asked the Home Secretary how many persons, if any, have been killed on the road whose identity has not been established in each of the last five years?

I regret that this information is not available.

asked the Home Secretary in how many cases have the police been obliged to use the British Broadcasting Corporation to trace a motorist who has been involved in a road accident in each of the last five years?

The figures for which the hon. Member asks are appended. The majority of the messages broadcast by the British Broadcasting Corporation at the request of the police in road accident cases relate to tracing witnesses rather than the motorists themselves.

asked the Home Secretary whether it has been proved that imported goats' hair is liable to be infected with anthrax; and, if so, whether it is intended to make it compulsory for goats' hair to be passed through the Government disinfecting station?

I would refer my hon. and gallant Friend to the reply which I have given to-day to a question by my hon. Friend the Member for St. Albans (Sir F. Fremantle).

asked the Minister of Health whether his attention has been called to the frequent cases of anthrax; and whether, as it has been definitely proved that goats' hair is not injured by disinfectant treatment, he will make it compulsory that goats' hair is passed through the Government disinfecting station?

I have been asked to answer this question. I would refer my hon. Friend to the reply which I have given to-day to a question by my hon. Friend the Member for St. Albans (Sir F. Fremantle).

asked the Home Secretary the number of prison officers of the officer rank who retired during the past 12 months to the nearest possible date and the approximate average amount of pension paid to each officer, calculated on a weekly basis?

During the 12 months ended 7th February, 1935, 36 men officers and two women officers retired from the prison service. Taking all cases into consideration, the approximate average amount of pension granted was £1 12s. 3d. per week in the case of men officers and £1 7s. 3d. per week in the case of women officers.

asked the Home Secretary whether, as the initial rate of pay of a prison officer, apart from emoluments, is only 43s. 6d. per week, he will bear this low rate in mind whenever the pay question for Civil servants generally arises for discussion in the near future?

The initial rate ort the scale of pay of male officers is not 43s. 6d. a week but 44s. 9d., representing a full consolidated rate of 45s. 11d. less the appropriate temporary abatement applicable to Civil Service rates generally. If the value of quarters and uniform is taken into account, the rate of 44s. 9d. a week is equivalent to 56s. 3d. The position of prison officers would, of course, be considered in the event of any general revision of Civil Service remuneration.

asked the Home Secretary whether his Department has considered the repeated appeals from ex-Prison Officer E. Fry, formerly of Park-hurst Prison, whose wife and daughter were murderously attacked by a convict at that prison in 1924; and whether, in view of the fact that Fry has to maintain himself, his daughter and his wife, who is in a mental home, on a pension of approximately 33s. per week, he will reconsider the case and grant an allowance under the Workmen's Compensation Acts?

I would refer the hon. Member to the replies which I gave to questions by the hon. and gallant Member for the Isle of Wight (Captain P. Macdonald) on 25th July, 1933, and by the hon. Member for Stratford (Mr. Groves) on 16th November, 1934. No question of any claim under the Workmen's Compensation Act could arise in this case.