HC Deb 11 July 1975 vol 895 c282W
Mr. Russell Johnston

asked the Secretary of State for Energy how many wage earners were employed in the coal mining industry on 1st January 1975, 1974 and 1973.

Mr. Eadie

This information is published in Table 18 of the "Digest of United Kingdom Energy Statistics", a copy of which is available in the Library of the House. For convenience, the figures are as follows:

Wage earners on colliery books, Great Britain.
End of year thousands
1972 … … … 268.1
1973 … … … 246.7
1974 … … … 247.6