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Colonel Crosthwaite-Eyre
asked the Minister of Fuel and Power the weekly coal production for each week from 1st May to 1st November, 1946.
Mr. Shinwell
The figures of weekly output for each week from the beginning of May to the end of October, 1946, are as follow:
| 1946, Week ended | Deepmined. | Opencast. | Total |
| Thousand Tons | Thousand Tons | Thousand Tons | |
| 4th May | 3,664·9 | 215·8 | 3,880·7 |
| 11th May | 3,706·5 | 219·4 | 3,925·9 |
| 18th May | 3,720·0 | 223·6 | 3,943·6 |
| 25th May | 3,718·5 | 211·3 | 3,929·8 |
| 1St June | 3,736·7 | 202·1 | 3,938·8 |
| 8th June | 3,225'8 | 204·9 | 3,430·7 |
| 15th June | 2,716·9 | 134·7 | 2,851·6 |
| 22nd June | 3,704·4 | 196·4 | 3,900·8 |
| 29th June | 3,587·7 | 223·2 | 3,810·9 |
| 6th July | 3,388·6 | 220·2 | 3,608·8 |
| 13th July | 3,226·4 | 224·1 | 3,450·5 |
| 20th July | 3,139·0 | 217·0 | 3,356·0 |
| 27th July | 3,336·1 | 213·7 | 3,549·8 |
| 3rd August | 2,510·6 | 204·1 | 2,714·7 |
| 10th August | 2,164·4 | 139·3 | 2,303·7 |
| 17th August | 3,414·1 | 139·6 | 3,553·7 |
| 24th August | 3,484·6 | 205·5 | 3,690·1 |
| 31st August | 3,603·4 | 201·7 | 3,805·1 |
| 7th September | 3,622·6 | 162·2 | 3,784·8 |
| 14th September | 3,440·0 | 190·9 | 3,630·9 |
| 21st September | 3,585·1 | 201·5 | 3,786·6 |
| 28th September | 3,631·2 | 156·9 | 3,788·1 |
| 5th October | 3,657·5 | 206·3 | 3,863·8 |
| 12th October | 3,694·2 | 199·5 | 3,893·7 |
| 19th October | 3,700·5 | 213·5 | 3,914·0 |
| 26th October | 3,695·7 | 198·2 | 3,893·9 |
Note: The figures of deep-mined output may be subject to slight adjustment when the final saleable output for the year 1946 is available from the statutory annual return.