§ Mr. Woodhouseasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether he will introduce legislation to improve and to co-ordinate on a national basis the control over house-to-house collections for charitable causes.
292WOctober and 13th November, 1965. Figures are given also for the comparable four-week periods in 1964, 1963 and 1962, when the total numbers of persons involved were 2,220, 2,461 and 2,832 respectively.
Although there was unfortunately a small increase, as compared with 1964, in the total number of injuries of all kinds, the figures in Part F of the table show that there was a welcome reduction of 35 per cent. in the number of severe injuries.
§ Mr. Roy JenkinsNo. There is need to co-ordinate the activities not only of those charities which undertake collections on a national scale but of many smaller ones which collect only locally. This cannot be done centrally. I believe that it can most effectively be done, as 293W now, by the police authorities through processes of consultation, which I shall continue to encourage.