§ Mr. FREEMANasked the Secretary for Mines the latest average weekly earnings in the mining industry for each separate district available in Great Britain; and the corresponding figures for each of the last five years?
District. 1925. 1927. 1928. 1929. 1930. s. d. s. d. s. d. s. d. s. d. Scotland 53 11 52 5 51 4 52 4 50 4 Northumberland 45 5 41 11 37 5 38 6 36 10 Durham 47 8 44 6 40 0 40 11 39 7 South Wales and Monmouth* 53 6 47 7 48 5 49 7 47 3 Yorkshire 52 2 48 0 43 4 45 11 44 43 North Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire 49 1 43 6 46 1 45 3 South Derbyshire, Leicestershire, Cannock Chase and Warwickshire. 49 1 42 4 44 3 43 11 Lancashire, Cheshire and North Staffordshire. 46 1 43 8 39 11 41 9 41 8 Cumberland, North Wales, South Staffordshire, Shropshire, Bristol, Forest of Dean, Somerset and Kent. 46 8 45 1 42 6 44 5 44 9 Great Britain 50 8 47 2 43 9 45 6 44 4† NOTE.—It should be noted that the particulars of cash earnings shown above do not include the value of allowances in kind which during the first nine months of 1930 varied from about 5s. 4d. per week in Northumberland and Durham to about 2½d. per week in Scotland, Lancashire, Cheshire and North Staffordshire.
* The figures for 1927 to 1929 relate to the years ended January, 1928, 1929, 1930 and that for 1930 to the 9 mouths ended October, 1930.
† Provisional figure.