HC Deb 17 March 1953 vol 512 c180W
91. Mr. Hayman

asked the Minister of Labour how many men were employed in the granite industry in Cornwall in each year since the war to the latest convenient date.

Mr. Watkinson

The available statistics relate to the whole of the stone quarrying and mining industry. The estimated total numbers of males in that industry in Cornwall at the middle of the years 1948, 1951 and 1952 (including a small number who were unemployed), were 1,430, 1,240 and 1,170, respectively. Comparable figures are not available for any earlier years. nor for 1949 and 1950.