§ Dr. HASTINGSasked the President of the Board of Trade the approximate quantities of coal and oil used in the manufacture of gas in England and Wales?
§ Mr. W. R. SMITHThe quantity of coal carbonised in 1928 by statutory and non-statutory gas undertakings in England and Wales was 16,523,254 tons. Oil used by statutory gas undertakings in 1928 for carburetting gas amounted to 56,037,150 gallons. The quantity of oil so used by non-statutory gas undertakings is not known but is small. The above figures do not include coal carbonised in coke oven plants producing, as a by-product, gas which is bought by gas undertakings for distribution to the extent of approximately 2 per cent. of their total sales.