§ Mr. Lawsonasked the Secretary for Mines whether he can state the number of miners employed in the mines of Britain in July, 1931, and the number employed to-day?
§ Captain CrookshankThere were 832,000 wage-earners on the colliery books in Great Britain on 11th July, 1931, and 779,600 on 10th July, 1937.