HC Deb 04 February 1930 vol 234 cc1717-20W
Mr. LAWTHER

asked the Secretary for Mines the amount paid by the mining industry for royalty rents and for local rates for the years 1927, 1928, and 1929, respectively, for the following districts: Northumberland, Durham, Cumberland,

and what was the average retail price of coal sold in London, Bristol, Plymouth, Southampton, Brighton, Dover, Canterbury, Lincoln, Oxford, Sheffield, Manchester, Liverpool, Chester, Cambridge, Derby, York, Darlington, Durham, Tyne-mouth, and Edinburgh for the same period, namely, quarters ending September, 1928, December, 1928, and September, 1929, and the months of October, November, and December, 1929?

Mr. TURNER

Information regarding the average retail price of coal sold in individual towns is not available. The reply to the first part of the question is as follows:

South Wales, and Yorkshire; and the totals for Great Britain for the same period?

Mr. TURNER

The particulars for the coal mining industry, so far as the information is available, are as follow:

— 1927. 1928. 1929 (estimated).
Royalties: £ £ £
Northumberland … … 333,000 310,000 306,000
Durham … … 864,000 825,000 925,000
Cumberland … … 92,000 73,000 61,000
South Wales and Monmouth … … 1,607,000 1,397,000 1,531,000
Yorkshire … … 875,000 806,000 865,000
Great Britain … … 6,049,000 5,528,000 5,857,000
Local Rates:
Northumberland … … 168,000 208,000 Not yet available.
Durham … … 739,000 592,000
Cumberland … … 36,000 42,000
South Wales and Monmouth … … 786,000 1,120,000
Yorkshire … … 685,000 772,000
Great Britain … … 3,511,000 3,812,000

Particulars of local rates for the last quarter of 1929 are not yet available, and as the figures for this period will be on a different basis from that which obtained in the earlier months, owing to the operation of Derating from 1st October, 1929, it is impossible to furnish a reliable estimate.