§ Mr. T. Smithasked the Secretary for Mines whether he can state the total amount and percentage of output of coal cut by machinery during 1936 in each mining district?
§ Captain CrookshankThe information is as follows: 45W
Quantity and percentage proportion of Coal cut by Machinery in each mining district of Great Britain during the year 1936. District. Quantity of coal cut by machinery. Percentage proportion of coal cut by machinery to total saleable coal raised. Tons. Northumberland 12,679,373 88 Durham 12,379,616 39 Cumberland and Westmorland 767,743 65 Lancashire and Cheshire 8,447,861 58 Yorkshire, South 14,425,324 47 Yorkshire, West 5,636,152 48 Nottinghamshire 10,701,496 71 Derbyshire, North 9,453,641 76 Derbyshire, South 631,601 79 Staffordshire, North 6,417,988 91 Cannock Chase 2,937,165 54 Staffordshire, South, and Worcestershire 127,814 9 Leicestershire 1,886,934 70 Warwickshire 3,953,654 70 Shropshire 201,237 29 Forest of Dean 166,629 12 Somersetshire 53,253 7 Bristol 23,402 25 Kent 358,403 18 South Wales and Monmouthshire 7,151,019 21 North Wales 1,909,130 67 Fife, Clackmannan, Kinross and Sutherland 7,678,454 88 Lothians (Mid and East) and Peebles 2,894,342 60 Lanarkshire, West Lothian, Stirling, Renfrew and Dumbarton. 11,617,000 83 Ayrshire, Dumfries and Argyll 3,071,123 69 Great Britain 125,570,354 55