§ Mr. Barnettasked the President of the Board of Trade how many people per day have visited the Registrar of Companies to see company files since 27th October, 1967; and what has been the daily average in each of the past five years.
§ Mr. DarlingThe numbers of people visiting the Registry of Companies each day to search the files of companies are not recorded regularly. The numbers of searches of these files made each day since 27th October, 1967, are as follows:—
27th October … … 4,438 30th October … … 4,777 31st October … … 4,720 1st November … … 4,416 2nd November … … 4,721 3rd November … … 4,521 6th November … … 4,752 7th November … … 4,621 8th November … … 4,500 9th November … … 4,488 10th November … … 4,422 13th November … … 4,591 14th November … … 5,140 15th November … … 5,060 16th November … … 4,815 17th November … … 4,602 The average numbers of searches per day for each of the past five years are as follows:—
1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 (so far) 3,238 3,754 3,871 4,022 4,335