§ 79. Mr. Ridsdaleasked the Chancellor of the Exchequer the percentage increase in wages in the nationalised coal, gas and electricity industries since 1951; the percentage increase in production in those industries since 1951; and if he will express the percentage difference in terms of money.
§ Mr. H. MacmillanTotal wages and salaries paid by all the public corporations increased from £1,018 million in 1951 to £1,201 in 1954, a rise of 18 per cent. These figures are taken from the summary operating account of all public corporations published in Table 32 of "National Income and Expenditure, 185W 1955." Figures for 1955 will not be available until the accounts of the public corporations are completed. No statistics of the volume of output of the public corporations sector as a whole are compiled. Between 1951 and 1954 output of electricity rose by 22 per cent., of gas by 3 per cent., and of coal by 1 per cent.
It will of course be realised that as a result of nationalisation and denationalisation the number and size of operating units within the public corporations sector changed from year to year.
PARTICULARS OF LAND AND OTHER PROPERTY ACCEPTED IN SATISFACTION OF DEATH DUTIES AND TRANSFERRED TO THE NATIONAL TRUST OR THE NATIONAL TRUST FOR SCOTLAND SINCE 1ST APRIL, 1949 Financial Year Description Acreage 1949–50 Southdown Farm, Owermoigne, Dorset … … … 273 Eaves Wood and Waterslack Wood, Silverdale, Lancs. … … … 97 Part of Claremont Estate, Esher … … … 49 Four houses at Wisbech and neighbouring land … … … 17 Part of Osterley Park, Isleworth, Middlesex … … … 140 1950–51 Abinger Hall Estate, Abinger, Surrey … … … 269 The Kelseys, Cubert, Cornwall … … … 305 1951–52 Penrhyn Castle, near Bangor, Caernarvonshire, and grounds … … 47 Part of Lord Penrhyn's Estate in Caernarvonshire and Denbighshire … 40,571 Woolacombe Barton Farm, Woolacombe, Devon … … … 545 Town Farm, Mortehoe, Devon … … … 113 Woolacombe Warren, Devon … … … 101 Land at Box Hill, Surrey and two cottages … … … 88 1952–53 Part of Derwent Estate, Yorkshire … … … 6,489 High Close Estate, Ambleside … … … 534 1953–54 Mount Grace Priory, Northallerton, Yorkshire … … … 10 Northchurch Estate, Berkhampstead, Herts … … … 371 Loch Alsh House, Balmacara, Ross and Cromarty … … … 15 1954–55 Eight 16th century banners traditionally associated with Sir Francis Drake, to be kept in Buckland Abbey, Devon — 1955–56 (to date) Land at Marsden Moor, Yorkshire … … … 5,685 Land at Lundy Bay, Cornwall … … … 30