§ Mr. R. Morganasked the Minister of Fuel and Power if he will give the following information so far as available for the quarter ended 31st March, 1944: the output of saleable coal, the number of wage-earners overall and at the coal face; the output per manshift overall and at the coal face, the percentage of absenteeism overall and at the coal face and the proportion of coal face shifts worked to the total worked.
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Major Lloyd GeorgeI would ask my hon. Friend to await the publication of the White Paper giving full statistics of production, employment, absenteeism, etc., to which I referred in reply to a question by my hon. Friend the Member for Bosworth (Sir W. Edge) on 9th May.