§ Mr. Ellis Smithasked the Minister of Health if he will set out in tabular form
County Borough (and estimated mid-1960 population) Number of food premises Number of visits paid to these food premises 1st January, 1960–31st December, 1960 Number of instances where attention was drawn to contraventions of the Food Hygiene Regulations Column 4 as percentage of Column 2 Number of prosecutions for non-compliance with Food Hygiene Regulations (already included in Column 4) Number of prosecutions for offences under Sec. 8 of the Food and Drugs Act, 1955 (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) Bradford (289,860) 5,242 6,171 1,562 29.8 7 — Bristol (433,750) 6,006 3,270 62* 1.0* 4 1 Cardiff (255,470) 2,379 6,747 394 16.6 1 — (3 offences) Coventry (291,000) 2,642 5,128 420 15.9 1 8 (3 offences) Croydon (249,690) 2,772 7,272 308 11.1 — — Kingston upon Hull (302,400) 3,421 4,554 647 18.9 1 3 Leicester (273,370) 2,508 4,933 243 9.7 1 — Newcastle-upon-Tyne (268,970) 3,373 4,952 526 15.6 2 — (22 offences) Nottingham (313,760) 4,051 7,367 398 9.8 4 — Plymouth (216,470) 1,914 3,110 227 11.9 3 — Portsmouth (217,520) 1,854 3,122 162* 8.7* 6 1 Sheffield (499,610) 5,497 15,245 342* 6.2* 49 — Southampton (201,790) 2,136 8,493 102 4.8 — — Stoke-on-Trent (270,200) 3,700 6,530 554 15.0 4 — * These figures relate only to formal written notices: in other instances (216 (11.7 per cent.) in Portsmouth, numbers not recorded in Bristol and Sheffield) attention was drawn orally to contraventions of the Regulations.