HC Deb 12 March 1906 vol 153 cc900-2
MR. FENWICK (Northumberland, Wansbeck)

To ask Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer whether he will state the net amount received from the Coal Tax at each shipping port in the United Kingdom since the 31st March, 1905.

(Answered by Mr. Asquith.) The net amount received from the coal tax at each shipping port in the United Kingdom from 1st April, 1905, to 28th February, 1906, is as follows:—

Ports. Net Amount received. Ports. Net Amount received.
Bristol Channel Ports:— £ Other English Ports:— £
Bristol 990 Dartmouth 15
Cardiff 565,373 Exeter 4
Gloucester 33 Plymouth 76
Llanelly 9,908 Southampton 9
Newport 137,151
Port Talbot 37,748 Total 104
Swansea 71,257 Total England and Wales 1,648,087
Total 822,460
North Western Ports:— Ports on the East Coast of Scotland:—
Barrow 13 Aberdeen 3
Fleetwood 35 Alloa 8,623
Liverpool 9,553 Borrowstouness 20,356
Manchester 4,014 Burntisland 66,525
Preston 27 Dundee 134
Runcorn 69 Grangemouth 40,001
Workington 5 Granton 4,460
Kirkcaldy 4,323
Total 13,716 Kirkwall 5
. Leith 29,917
North Eastern Ports:— Lerwick 1
Methill 81,757
Amble 15,100
Blyth 101,845 Total 256,105
Hartlepool 29,830
Middlesbrough 2,553
Newcastle, North and South Shields 378,976 Ports on the West Coast of Scotland:—
Stockton 8 Ardrossan 1,996
Sunderland 108,018 Ayr 473
Total 636,330 Glasgow 66,363
Greenock 1,023
Troon 2,753
Humber Ports:—
Goole 28,192 Total 72,608
Grimsby 53,939
Hull 76,953 Total Scotland 328,713
Total 159,084
Other Ports on the East Coast:— Ports on the Coast of Ireland:—
Belfast 7
Boston 4,768 Cork 15
Ipswich 96 Dublin 12
London 6,688
Lynn 4,841 Total Ireland 34
Total 16,393 Total United Kingdom 1,976,834