§ 23. Mr. A. R. W. Lowasked the Minister of Transport for what tonnage of Service Department stores scheduled to be evacuated from Palestine will shipping be available in each month of 1948.
§ Mr. BarnesIt would not be in the public interest to disclose details of the evacuation plans while the operation is in progress, but I am arranging to make, available the quantity of shipping required by the Service Departments for their planned evacuation of stores from Palestine.
§ Mr. LowIs the right hon. Gentleman satisfied that there is sufficient shipping for the plans, and has he recently had an application from the Service Departments to increase the amount of shipping to be made available?
| The table below gives the number of casualties to ships (excluding those clue to mines) reported to the Ministry of Transport as having occurred during the years 1945, 1946 and 1947, and includes: | |||||||||
| (a) all casualties to ships of United Kingdom registry, wherever they happened, and | |||||||||
| (b) casualties in United Kingdom waters to ships of foreign, Colonial and Dominion registry. | |||||||||
| Year. | Total. | Trading Vessels. | Fishing Vessels. | Total losses (included in previous column). | |||||
| Serious. | Minor. | Serious. | Minor. | Trading. | Fishing. | ||||
| 1945 | … | … | 4,560 | 332 | 4,039 | 72 | 117 | 46 | 23 |
| 1946 | … | … | 4,095 | 339 | 3,464 | 83 | 209 | 38 | 20 |
| 1947 | … | … | 3,992 | 323 | 3,238 | 100 | 331 | 26 | 20 |