§ Mr. G. Macdonaldasked the Secretary for Mines whether he can state the quantity of coal sold as out-put quotas in Great Britain during the last five years; the number of pits closed in consequence and the number of persons displaced, giving separate figures for Lancashire and Cheshire?
§ Mr. G. Macdonaldasked the Secretary for Mines whether he will state the number of persons employed in the coal industry and the output per man-shift worked in Lancashire and Cheshire in 1931 and for the last 12 months for which figures are available?
Mr. LloydIn the year 1931 there were, on the average, 71,000 wage-earners employed at coal mines in Lancashire and Cheshire, and the output of saleable coal per man-shift worked at those mines2412W amounted to 17.12 cwts. The corresponding figures for 1938 were 56,800 and 19.26, respectively.