§ SIR WALTER PLUMMER (Newcastle-on-Tyne)To ask Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer whether he will state the amount of coal tax at each shipping port in the United Kingdom in the year ending December 31st, 1904, and the total quantity exported in that year from each of such ports of coal on which tax was remitted on the ground that its value did not exceed 6s. per ton.
(Answered by Mr. Austen Chamberlain.) The following table gives the information for which the hon. Member asks:—
| Port. | Net Amount of Coal Tax. | Total Quantity of Exported Coal on which the Tax was remitted on the ground that its value was not exceeding 6s. per ton. |
| £ | Tons. | |
| Brought forward | 752,889 | 3,102,672. |
| Goole | 27,230 | 151,325 |
| Grimsby | 44,757 | 22,187 |
| Hartlepool | 27,153 | 5,046 |
| Hull | 74,686 | 140,047 |
| Ipswich | 73 | — |
| Llanelly | 9,488 | 65,607 |
| Lynn | 4,005 | 616 |
| Manchester | 3,773 | 14,103 |
| Maryport | 86 | — |
| Middlesbrough | 2,907 | 72 |
| Milford | 11 | — |
| Newport (Mon.) | 146,703 | 254,559 |
| Plymouth | 104 | — |
| Portsmouth | 21 | — |
| Port Talbot | 34,783 | 71,827 |
| Preston | 79 | — |
| Runcorn | 171 | — |
| Southampton | 8 | — |
| Stockton | 32 | — |
| Sunderland | 114,253 | 130,173 |
| Swansea | 66,319 | 430,922 |
| Tyne Ports | 400,042 | 681,755 |
| Weymouth | — | — |
| Wisbeach | 9 | — |
| Workington | 4 | — |
| Aberdeen | 3 | — |
| Alloa | 10,208 | — |
| Arbroath | 5 | — |
| Ardrossan | 2,052 | 970 |
| Ayr | 134 | — |
| Bo'ness | 24,155 | 45,209 |
| Dundee | 99 | — |
| Glasgow | 69,454 | 66,819 |
| Grangemouth | 54,211 | 113,212 |
| Granton | 3,970 | 7,240 |
| Greenock | 1,218 | 183 |
| Irvine | 51 | — |
| Kirkcaldy | 96,358 | 224,578 |
| Kirkwall | 5 | — |
| Leith | 26,000 | 69,100 |
| Lerwick | 1 | — |
| Methil | 42,824 | 99,602 |
| Montrose | 1 | — |
| Peterhead | 1 | — |
| Troon | 2,595 | 2,929 |
| Limerick | 1 | — |
| Total | 2,042,932 | 5,700,753 |