§ 84. Mr. W. R. Williamsasked the Postmaster-General if he will state the size of the waiting list for telephones in each telephone area in Great Britain and Northern Ireland at 30th September, 1961; and what proportion this bore in each case to the total number of subscribers in each area.
§ Mr. BevinsThe figures are as follows:
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Telephone Area Waiting List (30th September, 1961) Waiting list as a percentage of total number of subscribers Aberdeen 195 0.3 Bedford 1,057 2.0 Belfast 1,030 1.2 Birmingham 5,518 3.8 Blackburn 919 1.4 Bournemouth 213 0.3 Bradford 353 0.4 Brighton 1,136 1.0 Bristol 358 0.4 Cambridge 686 1.1 Canterbury 1,016 1.4 Cardiff 1,251 1.6 Chester 805 1.5 Colchester 194 0.4 Coventry 2,687 4.2 Dundee 31 0.1 Edinburgh 200 0.2 Exeter 6 0.01 Glasgow 951 0.5 Gloucester 518 1.1 Guildford 1,449 2.3 Lancaster 481 1.1 Leeds 983 1.1 Leicester 384 0.5 Lincoln 1,082 2.0 Liverpool 476 0.3 London/Centre Nil Nil London/City Nil Nil London/East 694 0.4 London/North 340 0.2 London/North West Nil Nil London/South East 48 0.02 London/South West 1,382 0.5 London/West 2,714 1.3 Manchester 4,379 2.1 Middlesbrough 681 1.3 Newcastle.on.Tyne 1,607 1.5 Norwich 209 0.5 Nottingham 425 0.4 Oxford 2,208 3.8 Peterborough 158 0.4 Plymouth 45 0.1 Portsmouth 1,240 2.1 Preston 998 1.3 Reading 3,363 4.5 Scotland West 1,338 1.4 Sheffield 1,055 1.4 Shrewsbury 393 0.8 Southampton 273 0.5
Telephone Area Waiting List (30th September, 1961) Waiting list as a percentage of total number of subscribers Southend-on-Sea 1,961 3.3 Stoke-on-Trent 65 0.1 Swansea 94 0.2 Taunton Nil Nil Tunbridge Wells 369 0.6 West Midland 2,598 3.1 York 376 0.7