asked the Parliamentary Under-Secretary to the Scottish Board of Health whether he has had his attention called to the report of a case in Wellington Street, Motherwell, where, owing to fissures in the walls of a block of houses, occasioned by mining subsidences underneath the property, two schoolboys in a house adjoining that wherein a doctor was conducting a surgical operation were overcome with chloroform fumes; whether he is aware of the damage to private, co-operative, and municipal property caused by mining subsidences; and whether he will give an assurance that His Majesty's Government will during the present Session introduce a Bill to compel owners or operators of minerals to pay compensation for damage done by reason of subsidences caused by underground workings?