COAL-CUTTING MACHINERY.

HC Deb 03 February 1937 vol 319 cc1613-4W

Mr. Batey

asked the Secretary for Mines whether he can state the number

profits of companies and local authorities and undertakings of the electricity industry for the years 1933–34, 1934–35, and 1935–36?

Mr. Hore-Belisha

The figures for the gross surplus of authorised electricity undertakings (public authority and company undertakings) in Great Britain and for the appropriation thereof are as follows:

of pneumatic picks, coal-cutting machines and conveyors in use in the coal mines of Great Britain during the years 1935 and 1936; and the amount of coal cut by machinery?

Captain Crookshank

Information regarding the year 1935 will be found on page 172 of my last annual report. Particulars for 1936 are not yet available.