§ 43. Mr. GEORGE HALLasked the President of the Board of Trade the amount of coal exported to countries within the British Empire and to foreign countries, respectively, in 1913, and each successive year from 1920 to date, including the first quarter of this year?
§ Mr. HORE-BELISHAAs the answer involves a number of figures, I will circulate it in the OFFICIAL REPORT.
§ Following is the answer:
397§ The following table shows the total weight of the domestic exports of coal from the United Kingdom during the undermentioned years consigned to British countries and foreign countries respectively.
| Year. | United Kingdom domestic exports consigned to | |
| British Countries. | Foreign Countries. | |
| Thousand tons. | Thousand tons. | |
| 1913 | 2,319 | 71,081 |
| 1920 | 1,890 | 23,042 |
| 1921 | 1,886 | 22,774 |
| 1922 | 3,751 | 60,448 |
| 1923 | 3,545 | 75,914 |
| 1924 | 4,597 | 57,055 |
| 1925 | 4,523 | 46,294 |
| 1926 | 1,824 | 18,773 |
| 1927 | 4,952 | 46,197 |
| 1928 | 4,562 | 45,489 |
| 1929 | 5,300 | 54,967 |
| 1930 | 4,848 | 50,026 |
| 1931 | 4,195 | 38,555 |
| 1932 (Jan. to Mar.) | 888 | 8,584 |
§ Notes.
§ (1) Egypt, which included Anglo-Egyptian Sudan in 1913, has been treated as a foreign country throughout.
§ (2) From the 1st April, 1923, the above figures relate to the trade of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and not to the British Isles as a whole as formerly. They therefore include, from that date, exports to the Irish Free State which in each complete year except 1926 have varied between 2,200,000 tons and 2,500,000 tons.