§ Sir W. Edgeasked the Minister of Fuel and Power whether, taking the aggregate reduction of output in the coalfields since 1st March or at any more convenient date, he can state the subdivision of such reduction according to the different coalfields.
Major Lloyd GeorgeDuring the five weeks ended 1st April, 1944, the aggregate reduction in output was 2,284,000 tons, as compared with the corresponding period of last year. More than one and a half million tons of the reduction were lost owing to disputes, mainly in the Yorkshis p and South Wales coalfields.648W Apart from two small districts where there was a slight increase in production, the remainder of the decrease was spread more or less evenly among the other coalfields.