Coal Supplies.

Part of Orders of the Day — Consolidated Fund (Appropriation) Bill. – in the House of Commons at on 5 August 1941.

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Photo of Mr David Grenfell Mr David Grenfell , Gower

The hon. Member may have misunderstood the figures at the beginning. The Lord President's appeal applied to the programme which had been submitted by the Production Council and which makes provision for total stocks amounting to 38,000,000 tons, and we wanted an additional 24,000,000 tons in 30 weeks. It was clear after three or four months had passed that it would not be possible to reach that higher figure. What I said in May was that, if men were brought back and if facilities were provided, we might substitute a figure of 20,000,000 for the 24,000,000.