HC Deb 16 May 1927 vol 206 cc900-1
30. Mr. BATEY

asked the Secretary for Mines when the quarterly statements of the coal industry will be again issued by the Mines Department?

Sir B. CHADWICK

My right hon. Friend hopes to publish in a few weeks the particulars that his advisory committee have recommended should be published for the last nine months of 1926. The summary for the March Quarter, 1927, will probably be published about the end of June.

Mr. BATEY

Is not the end of June late to publish the figures for the March quarter? Prior to the stoppage last year the Department published them within six weeks of the end of the quarter.

Sir B. CHADWICK

That is what I am informed.

Mr. BATEY

Where is the Secretary for Mines? Has he already been supplanted?

Mr. PALING

Is the lateness of the report in any way due to the fact that the Mines Department is to be reorganised?