§ Mr. Daggarasked the Secretary for Mines whether he will state the total amount of wages paid and the number of workpeople employed in the mines of South Wales during 1937?
§ Captain CrookshankIt is estimated that in 1937 the wages paid in the coal-mining industry in South Wales and Monmouth amounted to £19,184,000 and the value of allowances in kind to £413,000. The average number of wage-earners employed was 133,904.