§ Mr. BATEYasked the Secretary for Mines if he can give the number of miners and the number of cokemen unemployed in the County of Durham?
§ Mr. BETTERTONI have been asked to reply. The number of persons in the coal mining industry (including shale miners) whose unemployment books were lodged at Employment Exchanges in the County of Durham on 26th March last was 7,137. The figure for workers at coke ovens, by-product plant, etc., at the same date was 383.