Mr. Whiteleyasked the Secretary for Mines whether he will supply the amount of export coke, export manufactured fuel, export for steamers in foreign trade, together with the home consumption for gas, electricity, railways, vessels coastwise, ironworks, steelworks, collieries, and general manufacture?
§ Captain CrookshankThe information is as follows:
GREAT BRITAIN—YEAR 1936. Million tons. Exports of coke … … … 2.3 Exports of manufactured coal … 0.5 Coal shipped for the use of steamers engaged in the foreign trade … 11.9 Home Consumption. Gas Works (excluding the coal equivalent of gas coke exported) 17.8 Electricity Generating Stations belonging to authorised undertakings and to railway and tram-way authorities … 13.6 Railway Companies (for locomotive use) … … … … 12.7 Vessels engaged in the Coastwise Trade (bunkers) … … 1.4 Iron Works (used in Blast Furnaces) 12.8* Other Iron Works and Steel Works 8.3* Collieries (engine fuel) … … 11.7 General Manufactures and all other purposes (including Domestic use) 97.6 Total Coal available for Home Consumption … … … 175.9 * These figures which are provisional cover only the coal, or its equivalent in coke, used in the manufacture of products coming within the purview of the British Iron and Steel Federation by whom the figures were supplied.