asked the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if he will arrange for a suitable first-aid chart to be made available for use on farms.

I am at present considering what first-aid requisites and instructions in their use should be prescribed under the Agriculture (Safety, Health and Welfare Provisions) Act, 1956, and will bear my hon. Friend's suggestion in mind.

asked the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food what progress is being made towards the adoption of the Egg Marketing Scheme.

With my right hon. and gallant Friend the Secretary of State for the Home Department and my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Scotland, I am now considering the draft Scheme in the light of objections and representations and of the Report of the commissioner who conducted the public inquiry.

asked the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food why he has approved Mr. Vernon Gattie, Q.C., to act as Chairman of the Disciplinary Committee of the Tomato and Cucumber Marketing Board.

Approval was given at the end of 1951 to the appointment of Mr. Vernon Gattie, C.B.E., J.P., as Chairman of the Disciplinary Committee set up under the Tomato and Cucumber Marketing Scheme. Mr. Gattie is a barrister of many years' standing and was formerly Treasury Counsel and a Metropolitan Police Magistrate.

asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies if he will give the name of the co-operative which owns the Kasamwa Ginnery in the Lake Province of Tanganyika, the size of its membership and the cost of the ginnery.

The Kasamwa Ginnery is owned by the Vctoria Federation of Co-operative Unions Limited. The federation comprises 12 co-operative unions and 195 primary societies with a total membership of approximately 90,000 growers. The cost of the ginnery is estimated at £87,000

asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether he will make a statement about the future of the European Productivity Agency.

The European Productivity Agency of the Organisation for European Economic Co-operation, which was established in June, 1953, has hitherto been financed partly by a "once for all" grant by the United States, and partly by contributions by O.E.E.C. member countries from counterpart funds derived from United States economic aid under Section 9 C of the Mutual Security Act, 1952. The United Kingdom contribution was £254,000. It was anticipated that these funds, together with an annual appropriation of approximately 150 million French francs from the O.E.E.C. budget, would be sufficient to finance the activities of the Agency for an initial period of up to three years.The question of extending the life of the European Productivity Agency beyond the period for which financial provision has already been made has been considered by the Council of the O.E.E.C. in Paris and has resulted in a unanimous declaration of intent, to which Her Majesty's Government have subscribed, to support the extension of the life of the Agency for a further three years provided that suitable arrangements can be made on the future financing of the Agency, which is to be further discussed. Her Majesty's Government have offered, subject to Parliamentary approval, and provided that the revised arrangements as a whole are satisfactory, to contribute up to an overall maximum of £150,000 per annum for this purpose.

asked the Minister of Housing and Local Government whether he will take steps to facilitate the grant of planning permission for posters, &c., in connection with the proposed Road Safety Campaign in the August holiday.

I am asking local authorities to deal as expeditiously as possible with any applications for planning consent which bodies participating in the Campaign may submit to them under the Regulations for control of advertisements.

asked the Minister of Labour to set out in the OFFICIAL REPORT the total number deferred from National Service during the last five years and during the current year and the number of coal mining workers, students, apprentices, pattern making apprentices in all materials, tool makers, and the numbers of skilled men called up for the forces, all for the same years, respectively.

The answer to the first part of the Question is as follows:

asked the Minister of Labour whether, in view of the fact that 1 million people are away from work every day owing to sickness, and his belief that some of the causes of this sickness rate can be removed, he will consider encouraging on-the-spot facilities for physical treatment in industrial establishments in order to relieve the strain on hospital out-patient departments and reduce the time spent by workers waiting for treatment in hospital.

My policy of encouraging medical supervision in factories has prevention of sickness in view and not treatment other than emergency or first-aid treatment. Any proposals for new arrangements for the treatment of sickness would require consideration within the context of the services provided under the National Health Service Acts.

asked the Postmaster-General how many applications for telephones were outstanding in Lincoln on 30th June, 1956.

One hundred and eleven. Another 140 were either in course of being met or under inquiry.

asked the Minister of Transport and Civil Aviation what he assumes to be the overall length of a car, the overall width of a car, the distance between parked cars from front to rear and from side to side, when they are parked in two rows, for the purpose of calculating how many cars can be parked in 100 feet.

When estimating the number of private cars which can be parked in a single row along the kerb it is usual to allow an average of 20 ft. for each car. The actual space occupied varies widely with the type of car parked; some cars are little more than 10 ft. while others of foreign manufacture are as long as 19 ft. Similarly it is usual to assume that a single row of cars occupies a width of road of about 6 ft., although some private cars are in fact more than 6 ft. wide and others are little more than 4 ft. wide. When private cars are parked in two rows the width of road occupied tends to be more than 12 ft. as some room is usually left between the two rows for people to get in and out.

asked the Minister of Transport and Civil Aviation when it is proposed to widen and improve the Leek road, between Henley and Milton in Stoke-on-Trent; and what is the estimated cost and the number of fatal and non-fatal accidents on this road in the past ten years.

I assume that the hon. Member is referring to the part of A.5009 which lies between its junction with A.52 east of Hanley (Bucknall Cross Roads) and Milton.I understand that the Stoke-on-Trent City Council, as the responsible highway authority, has in mind two major improvement schemes for this road. I have already given a grant this year for a widening scheme from Bucknall Cross Roads to the River Trent Bridge estimated to cost £7,693. I am afraid I shall not be able to make a grant this year for the other scheme between Abbey Hulton and Milton, which is estimated to cost over £60,000.Over the past ten years there have been 342 accidents on this road, causing five deaths, 34 serious injuries and 170 slight injuries.