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Coal Output

Volume 974: debated on Sunday 11 November 1979

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asked the Secretary of State for Energy what was the average output per man over the last five years among miners employed by the National Coal Board.

Information on the average output per man year at NCB collieries is published in the Department's annual "Digest of United Kingdom Energy Statistics", copies of which are available in the Library of the House. For convenience, the figures for the past five financial years are given below:

Output per man year* (tonnes)
1974–75475
1975–76463
1976–77448
1977–78442
1978–79449
*Output of saleable coal divided by the average number of men on colliery books.