HC Deb 09 March 1938 vol 332 cc1905-6W
Mr. Watson

asked the Secretary for Mines the number of mines at work in the coal producing counties in Scotland for the years 1934, 1935, 1936, and 1937, respectively, and the number of workers employed, giving each county separately?

Captain Crookshank

The information is as follows:

nation and the local authorities for similar periods?

Lieut.-Colonel Colville

Figures for the year 1937–38 are not yet available. For the years 1927–28, 1932–33 and 1936–37 the figures so far as available are as follow: