HC Deb 12 April 1927 vol 205 c168
60. Mr. TINKER

asked the Secretary for Mines if his Department is supplied by individual collieries with returns showing the number of days worked each week; and, if so, will he state the number of collieries that worked less than five days a week during January and February and what percentage this is of the whole of the persons employed?

Colonel LANE FOX

Yes, Sir, and certain particulars are published monthly in the "Labour Gazette." The returns are not tabulated according to the number of collieries but on the basis of the number of workpeople affected. From this it appears that the average weekly number of wage-earners employed during January and February was nearly one million, and that on the average about 22 per cent. of this number were employed at pits which lost more than one coal-winding day per week.