§ Mr. Douglasasked the Minister of Fuel and Power what quantity of coal has been exported from Great Britain during the current year and to what destinations.
§ Mr. ShinwellDuring the six months ending June, 1945, most of the coal exported, other than low quality coal of little use in this country, was consigned on military account and as such detailed figures are not available, but the total amounted to 1,591,000 tons. In addition, the following quantities, which were comprised mainly of low quality coal or coal for bunkers abroad, were exported during the above period:
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Tons. Eire 430,442 Gibraltar 61,807 British West Africa 80,230 Canada 11,212 Other British Countries 4,530 Iceland 25,211 Faroe Islands 2,751 Portugal 42,815 Spain 3,726 Morocco 87,011 French West and Equatorial Africa 29,649 Argentine 2,001 Algeria 181,507 Tunis 44,348 Italy 3,508 Sweden 140 Other Foreign Countries 18,067 Total 1,028,955
§ Mr. Warbeyasked the Minister of Fuel and Power how many tons of coal were exported from the United Kingdom to Spain during each of the 12 months ended July, 1945.
§ Mr. ShinwellDuring the 12 months ended June, 1945, low quality coal of little use in this country was exported to Spain as follows: 1,686 tons in November, 1944; 3,726 tons in June, 1945. The Official Trade Returns for July, 1945, are not yet available.