§ 89. Mr. W. R. Williamsasked the Postmaster-General what the size of the order list for telephones in the United Kingdom was at 31st March, 1962; and what he anticipates the corresponding figure will be for 31st March, 1963.
§ Mr. BevinsOn the 31st March, 1962, the order list was 147,000, made up of 99,000 applications under inquiry or in course of being met, and 48,000 on the waiting list. A year ago the order list was 170,000. There must be some speculation about the figure for 31st March, 1963, since this will depend on the relationship between new demand and the 450,000 telephones I expect to be connected during the next twelve months.
§ 90. Mr. W. R. Williamsasked the Postmaster-General what was the size of the waiting list for telephones in each telephone area in the United Kingdom at 31st March, 1962; and what proportion this bore in each case to the total number of subscribers in the area.
§ Mr. BevinsThe figures are as follows:
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Telephone Area Waiting List (31st March, 1962) Waiting List as a percentage of total number of subscribers Aberdeen … 154 0.3 Bedford … 886 1.6 Belfast … 914 1.1 Birmingham … 5,261 3.5 Blackburn … 1,054 1.6 Bournemouth … 146 0.2 Bradford … 258 0.3 Brighton … 837 0.7 Bristol … 268 0.3 Cambridge … 692 1.1 Canterbury … 811 1.1 Cardiff … 1,174 1.5 Chester … 583 1.1 Colchester … 205 0.4 Coventry … 2,583 3.9 Dundee … 24 0.1 Edinburgh … 172 0.2 Exeter … 3 0.005 Glasgow … 615 0.4 Gloucester … 396 0.8 Guildford … 1,757 2.7 Lancaster … 411 0.9
Telephone Area Waiting List (31st March, 1962) Waiting List as a percentage of total number of subscribers Leeds 873 1.0 Leicester 323 0.4 Lincoln 994 1.9 Liverpool 550 0.3 London, Centre Nil Nil London, City Nil Nil London, East 588 0.3 London, North 152 0.1 London, North-West Nil Nil London, South-East Nil Nil London, South-West 1,035 0.4 London, West 2,212 1.0 Manchester 4,857 2.3 Middlesbrough 484 0.9 Newcastle-on-Tyne 1,083 1.0 Norwich 187 0.4 Nottingham 191 0.2 Oxford 1,826 3.0 Peterborough 144 0.3 Plymouth 67 0.1 Portsmouth 1,229 2.1 Preston 943 1.2 Reading 3,627 4.8 Scotland, West 1,164 1.2 Sheffield 778 1.0 Shrewsbury 282 0.6 Southampton 344 0.6 Southend-on-Sea 1,313 2.2 Stoke-on-Trent 79 0.2 Swansea 54 0.1 Taunton Nil Nil Tunbridge Wells 357 0.5 West Midland 2,526 3.0 York 368 0.7