§ MR. HICKS BEACH (Gloucestershire, Tewkesbury)I beg to ask the President of the Board of Trade what was the total quantity of coal produced in the United Kingdom in the year 1906; and what percentage the amount exported bore to the total produced.
§ MR. KEARLEYThe quantity of coal produced in the United Kingdom in 1906 was about 251,000,000 tons. The exports, including bunker coal and also the coal equivalent of the exports of coke and patent fuel amounted to 76,750,000 tons or about 30.6 per cent. of the production. If bunker coal be excluded the proportion would be reduced to about 23.2 per cent.