HC Deb 21 November 1938 vol 341 c1357W
Mr. Batey

asked the Secretary for Mines the number of miners employed in Great Britain, and also in the county of Durham, for the year 1934, and each succeeding year up to the latest available date in 1938?

Captain Crookshank

The information is as follows:

Average Number of Wage-earners employed at Coal Mines in Great Britain and Durham in the years 1934–38.
Year. Total Average Number of Wage-earners employed in:
Great Britain. Durham.
1934 772,831 106,198
1935 754,300 105,423
1936 751,720 106,901
1937 776,139 114,211
Actual number of Wage-earners employed on 5th November, 1938. 773,545 110,355