Oral Answers to Questions — Coal Industry. – in the House of Commons am ar 4 Gorffennaf 1939.
Mr Frederick Cocks
, Broxtowe
asked the Secretary for Mines the average yearly output of coal per man, the value at pithead prices of this annual output, and the average annual wage of the workers in the Nottinghamshire coal mines for each of the years 1929 to 1938?
Mr Geoffrey Lloyd
, Birmingham, Ladywood
As the reply involves a number of figures, I will, with the hon. Member's permission, circulate it in the Official Report.
Mr Frederick Cocks
, Broxtowe
Can the hon. Gentleman say whether the figures do not show year by year that the miner is getting a decreasing proportion of the benefit?
Mr Geoffrey Lloyd
, Birmingham, Ladywood
No, Sir. The figures show-that wages, for example, have increased from £120 a year in 1930, and £118 in 1931, to £162 at the present time, but that increase, as I understand it, is rather greater proportionately than that of the annual output.
Mr George Griffiths
, Hemsworth
What is the increase in coalowners profits? Was it not £5 500,000 last quarter—2s. a ton?
Following is the information:
| Nottinghamshire. | |||
| Year | Average Annual Cash Earnings per Wage-' earner (exclusive of the value 01 allowances in | Value of the Average Annual Output per Wage earner | Average Annual Cash Earning per Wage-earner (exculusive of the value of allowance in kind)* |
| Tons. | £ | £ | |
| 1929 | 288 | 181 | 122 |
| 1930 | 284 | 180 | 120 |
| 1931 | 292 | 183 | 118 |
| 1932 | 283 | 181 | 113 |
| 1933 | 295 | 184 | 113 |
| 1934 | 310 | 192 | 116 |
| 1935 | 32O | 192 | 117 |
| 1936 | 341 | 228 | 134 |
| 1937 | 381 | 269 | 169 |
| 1938 | 346 | 264 | 162 |
| * The value of allowances in kind is not available for Nottinghamshire separately, but for North Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire, it averaged about£ 3 13s. per annum. | |||
