HC Deb 28 February 1933 vol 275 cc195-7W
Mr. DAGGAR

asked the President of the Board of Trade if he will issue a

STATUTORY GAS UNDERTAKINGS.
Companies' Undertaking.
Year. Total Capital (Share and Stock) paid up. Total loan (including debenture stock issued). Revenue Account.
Receipts. Expenditure. Excess of Receipts Expenditure.
£ £ £ £ £
1929 … 87,793,526 29,264,025 45,420,646 38,377,145 7,043,501
1930 … 89,865,241 32,876,965 44,845,198 37,781,061 7,064,137
1931 … 91,208,259 35,072,733 45,097,410 37,804,434 7,292,976

Loral Authorities' Undertakings.
Year. Total amount of money borrowed. Total amount of loans repaid and balance in Sinking Fund. Revenue Account. Interest paid on loans, amount of loans repaid and amount placed to during year. Net Surplus.
Receipts. Expenditure. Excess of Receipts over Expenditure.
£ £ £ £ £ £ £
1929–30 71,841,980 40,637,702 22,394,758 18,090,465 4,304,293 3,504,569 799,724
1930–31 74,142,698 43,707,360 22,141,602 17,894,018 4,247,584 3,534,520 713,064
1931–32 75,762,012 45,771,698 21,522,395 17,481,592 4,040,803 3,568,014 472,789

statement showing the profits of the companies' and local authorities' gas undertakings in Great Britain for the years 1929, 1930, 1931, and 1932; the price paid per ton for coal; and similar particulars with regard to the generation of electricity and the production of coke?

Mr. RUNCIMAN:

The profits of statutory gas undertakings (companies and local authorities) as shown in the Board of Trade Return relating to all Authorised Gas Undertakings in Great Britain for 1929, 1930, and 1931 (Part II Finance and Prices) and similar particulars as regards authorised electricity undertakings (supplied by the Ministry of Transport) for 1929 and 1930, are given below. The corresponding information for later periods is not yet available. No similar information as to the coke oven industry is available. As regards the price paid per ton for coal by the undertakings referred to, figures are given below for 1929 and 1930, in respect of electricity undertakings. For the other industries no particulars are available.

AUTHORISED ELECTRICITY UNDERTAKINGS.
(1) Public Authorities.
Year. Capital Expenditure at end of year. Gross Surplus. Appropriation of Gross Surplus.
Interest. Sinking Funds. Balance, other purposes.
£ £ £ £ £
1929–30 … … … 200,291,250 15,538,862 5,847,449 6,198,557 3,492,856
1930–31 … … … 216,455,119 16,360,093 6,249,807 6,642,667 3,467,619
(2) Companies.
Year. Capital Expenditure at end of year. Gross Surplus. Appropriation of Gross Surplus.
Interest. Dividends. Depreciation and other purposes.
£ £ £ £ £
1929 … … …126,778,903 12,158,128 2,323,106 4,681,725 5,153,297
1930 … … … 137,642,919* 12,283,291 2,341,859 4,954,547 4,986,885
* NOTE.—Exclunsive of expenditure on certain company Undertakings which were transferred to a Joint Electricity Authority after December, 1930, but before 31st March, 1931, the purchase price of such Undertakings being included in the figure for Public Authorities.
(3) Coal.
The average cost in 1929–30 and 1930–31, per ton of coal and coke, used in the generating stations of all authorised undertakers was 15s. 5d. and 15s. 11d. respectively, the amount of coke representing between one and two per cent. only of the total coal tonnage.