Mr. GIDEON MURRAYasked the President of the Board of Trade whether he will furnish a comparative statement showing for the United Kingdom and the United States, respectively, for the years 1886, 1906, and 1912 the number of tons of coal per wage earner per annum, and the value of a ton of coal at the pit mouth?
§ Mr. BRIDGEMANI propose to publish in the OFFICIAL REPORT a statement giving such of the information desired by my hon. Friend as is available.
The following is the statement referred to—
— Annual Output of Coal per Person employed in Coal Mining. Average Value per ton of Coal at the Pit Mouth. Tons. s. d. United Kingdom— 1886 315 4 10 1906 292 7 3½ 1912 246 8 11¾ United States— 1886 No information. 6 4¼ 1906 577 5 9½ 1912 660 6 1 Note.—The figures for the United Kingdom include dirt raised with the coal. Only in 1912 was it possible first to exclude dirt from the statistics, and if this is done the output of clean coal per man was 244 tons of a value of 9s. 0¾d. per ton.
Mr. MURRAYasked the President of the Board of Trade whether he will furnish a comparative statement showing for the years 1886, 1906, and 1912, for the United Kingdom and the United States, respectively, the value of output per worker?
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§ Mr. BRIDGEMANFigures of the kind required are not available, and no comparative figures of any kind exist for the years quoted. I am, however, sending to my hon. Friend a memorandum which may be of some interest to him.