§ Mr. David Marshallasked the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will estimate how many jobs in Scotland depend on the coal mining industry.
§ Mr. Allan StewartThe National Coal Board estimate its number of employees at March 1984 to be 16,540 (provisional). Up-to-date estimates of jobs with other employers in coal mining and estimates of those jobs which depend indirectly on the coal mining industry are not available.