§ 23. Mr. H. WILLIAMSasked the Secretary for Mines if he can state the total amount of coal raised during the period of the coal dispute from ordinary mines and from outcrop workings respectively?
§ The SECRETARY for MINES (Colonel Lane Fox)About 10,500,000 tons of coal have been produced from mines in Great Britain from the beginning of May up to the present time. I do not know what is the total production from outcrop work- 851 ings during that period, but at the end of July it was estimated to amount to about 50,000 tons a week, and at the end of August 100,000 tons a week.