HC Deb 10 October 1944 vol 403 cc1546-7
12 and 13. Mr. Raikes

asked the Minister of Fuel and Power (1) whether he proposes to publish a further issue of the Statistical Digest including the figures of output, etc., for the quarter ended 30th June, 1944; and, if not, whether he will issue in the OFFICIAL REPORT at once the figures for that quarter for output, number of workers, absenteeism at the coal face and overall, and the output per man-shift at the coal face and for all workers;

(2) if he is aware that no statistics concerning the output of coal have been published in the Board of Trade Journal since his promise on 9th May that this would be done; and why it is that no information is available to the House regarding production for the quarter ended 30th June, 1944.

Major Lloyd George

As my hon. Friend will recall, the principal figures of production for the June quarter were given in the House on 13th July by my hon. Friend the Joint Parliamentary Secretary. Fuller figures are being printed in this week's "Board of Trade Journal," and a fuller statement of the statistics, including all district figures, will be issued by the Stationery Office in the near future.