HC Deb 13 February 1931 vol 248 cc757-8W
Mr. WELLOCK

asked the Minister of Health the number of local authorities in England and Wales with a population between 8,000 and 20,000?

Mr. GREENWOOD

At mid-1929 there were in England and Wales one admini- strative county, 316 boroughs and urban districts and 297 rural districts—amounting to 614 in all—the estimated populations of which were between 8,000 and 20,000.