Oral Answers to Questions — Coal Industry. – in the House of Commons at on 15 March 1938.
asked the Secretary for Mines the number of claims so far made for registration under the Coal (Registration of Ownership) Act, 1937; and an estimate of the final total of such claims?
The number of applications up to the 11th March was 16,756. No information is available on which a reliable estimate could be made of the total number of applications that may be received.