§ Mr. LOUGHERasked the Secretary for Mines the figures showing the increase in the output of coal in the United Kingdom since the coal subsidy was granted up to the present time?
§ Colonel LANE FOXThe average weekly output of coal raised and weighed in each month, omitting weeks affected by holidays, was as follow:
1925: Tons. January … … 5,423,000 February … … 5,347,000 March … … 5,239,000 April … … 5,281,000 May … … 4,912,000 June … … 4,462,000 July … … 4,794,000 August … … 4,233,000 September … … 4,365,000 October … … 4,736,000 November … … 4,929,000 December … … 5,398,000 1926: January … … 5,455,000 February … … 5,401,000