§ Mr. POTTSasked the Secretary for Mines if ho can give the tonnage, quality, and value of the coal supplied to colliery owners, directors, agents, managers, and enginewrights, without payment, during the year for residential purposes added to colliery consumption from 1st January to 30th June, 1925; and, if not already in his possession, will he obtain this information, having regard to the possibility of the Government subsidy being increased by such supply?
§ Colonel LANE-FOXAs I am informed the hon. Member on 4th August, T have no information about coal supplied to colliery owners, etc. The answer to the second part is that in matters of this kind the same rules will apply as between the Government and the colliery owners as have been in operation as between the miners and the colliery owners under their national wages agreement.