§ Mr. Swinglerasked the President of the Board of Trade if he will publish in HANSARD a table showing the number of British film quota defaults on first-feature and supporting programmes, respectively, in each year since 1948.
§ Mr. ErrollFigures for the year ended 30th September, 1956, are not yet complete.
Following are the figures for the earlier years:
BRITISH FILMS Quota failures for each of the seven years from 1948–49–1954–55 Year ending 30th September First feature quota Supporting programme quota Total 1949 … 1,474 1,381 2,855 1950 … 2,335 2,195 4,530 1951 … 771 2,340 3,111 1952 … 1,042 1,901 2,943 1953 … 884 1,626 2,510 1954 … 734 1,116 1,850 1955 … 529 642 1,171