Coal Mines (Statistics)

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asked the Minister of Fuel and Power the number of mines at work in the coal-producing counties of England, Scotland and Wales, for the years 1938 to 1942, and the number

Numbers of mines at work and number of wage earners employed.
District.		1938. No. of Mines at Work.	1938. Average No. of Wage-Earners.	1939. No. of Mines at Work.	1940. No. of Mines at Work.	1941. No. of Mines at Work.
England and Wales.
1.	Northumberland	102	45,178	104	100	97
2.	Durham	247	114,330	245	240	242
3.	Cumberland and Westmorland	25	6,544	22	23	22
4.	Lancashire and Cheshire	155	57,214	151	142	137
5.	Yorkshire, South	121	98,156	118	114	113
6.	Yorkshire, West	118	44,033	113	114	110
7.	Nottinghamshire	46	45,353	47	47	48
8.	Derbyshire, North	103	41,656	100	96	90
9.	Derbyshire, South	13	3,203	12	11	11
10.	Staffordshire, North	60	23,605	61	54	53
11.	Cannock Chase	39	19,722	36	38	38
12.	South Staffs, and Worcester	64	4,726	54	54	51
13.	Leicestershire	19	8,897	19	20	20
14.	Warwickshire	21	16,663	20	20	20
15.	Shropshire	47	2,627	47	42	39
16.	Forest of Dean	31	4,908	38	36	38
17.	Somerset	13	3,253	13	13	13
18.	Bristol	1	319	1	1	1
19.	Kent	4	6,641	4	4	4
20.	South Wales and Monmouth	424	134,053	412	387	376
21.	North Wales	28	9,729	25	24	24
TOTAL		1,681	690,810	1,642	1,580	1,547
Scotland.
22.	Fife and Clackmannan	51	22,906	52	49	49
23.	Lothians (Mid. and East)	33	13,335	35	35	35
24.	Lanarkshire, etc.	284	43,505	279	259	265
25.	Ayrshire, etc.	58	12,245	60	63	60
TOTAL		426	91,991	426	406	409
GREAT BRITAIN		2,107	782,801	2,068	1,986	1,956

Volume 387: debated on Wednesday 17 March 1943