HC Deb 19 February 1946 vol 419 cc212-3W
Mr. P. Morris

asked the Minister of Works the present monthly output and potential capacity of the slate industry; and if he will increase the allocation now being made to South Wales, in view of the need of such material for repair of bombed property and the building of houses

Mr. Tomlinson

Output from England and Wales for the pas' three quarry months has been:

November, 1945, 8,082 tons; December- 1945, 7–975 tons: January, 1946, 6,381 tons.

The prewar maximum output rate of quarries now being worked was 19,855 tons per month. Since nth February, 1946, the allocation to Wales has been increased by 10,000 slates per week.