§ Mr. Keelingasked the Minister of Fuel and Power if he will give for the year 1943 the percentage of shifts lost by wage earners at the coalface and by all wage earners in the coal industry, respectively, separating in each case the percentage lost 'through voluntary and involuntary absenteeism.
Major Lloyd GeorgeThere has been no change in the figures given in my answer to a similar Question by my hon. and gallant Friend the Member for South-East Essex (Flight-Lieutenant Raikes) on 22nd February last. The figures then quoted as provisional are now confirmed as final.