§ Mr. E. EDWARDSasked the Secretary for Mines the total amount of money that has been allowed to the coal-mining industry of Great Britain, and of Northumberland in particular, such to be given in totals and per ton, through the de-rating scheme?
§ Mr. TURNERParticulars are not yet available of the extent to which collieries have benefited by relief from local rates under the de-rating scheme. As regards the railway freights rebates scheme, information of the amount which had been credited to the selected coal traffics was supplied in the answer given on 12th March by my hon. Friend the Minister of Transport to a question by the right hon. Member for Aldershot (Viscount Wolmer); but inasmuch as this relief is accorded to the person paying the carriage charges, it is not possible to say what proportion has accrued directly to the coal-mining industry.