HC Deb 16 April 1956 vol 551 c37W
5. Major Anstruther-Gray

asked the Minister of Fuel and Power the respective quantities of household coal and industrial coal in the hands of distributors on 10th March; and the quantities in stock at pits and in transit on the same date.

Mr. Aubrey Jones

Total distributed stocks amounted to 13.8 million tons of which 673,000 tons were merchants' stocks of house coal. Undistributed stocks at pits and opencast sites amounted to 2 million tons and there were 2 to 4 million tons in transit.