HC Deb 25 April 1940 vol 360 cc385-6W
Mr. Brooke

asked the Minister of Supply whether he can give any figures showing the results of salvage work in each of the Metropolitan boroughs and in large cities outside London, during the latest available month?

Mr. Burgin

The following table shows for each of the Metropolitan Boroughs, and certain large cities outside London, the value of the sales of salvaged material for the month of March, 1940. These figures do not include material collected by merchants or voluntary organisations:

Metropolitan Boroughs. Population. Value.
£
Battersea 141,700 —
Bermondsey 97,240 51
Bethnal Green 92,910 38
Camberwell 229,300 13
Chelsea 39,800 68
Deptford 95,460 39
Finsbury 59,960 43
Fulham 150,928 190
Greenwich 95,770 18
Hackney 190,000 189
Hammersmith 125,100 98
Hampstead 90,700 218
Holborn 34,350 119
Islington and Stoke Newington 295,400 570
50,350
Kensington 174,100 579
Lambeth 272,800 222
Lewisham 226,000 112
London, City of 10,808 94
Paddington 139,200 293
Poplar 134,000 79
St. Marylebone 97,627 132
St. Pancras 190,000 229
Shoreditch 84,000 23
Southwark 171,659 403
Stepney 207,800 10
Wandsworth 353,100 193
Westminster, City of 129,579 512
Woolwich 150,000 198
Total 4,129,641 £4,733

The corresponding totals for previous months were:
£
November 1,430
December 1,789
January 2,035
February 2,955

Large Cities outside London. Population. Value.
£
Glasgow 1,131,600 1,521
Birmingham 1,048,000 4,031
Manchester 733,000 2,002
Sheffield 520,000 1,616
Leeds 494,000 1,127
Edinburgh 473,200 2,971
Bristol 413,100 1,165
Total 4,812,900 £14,433

The corresponding totals for previous months were:—
£
November 7,156
December 7,859
January 6,701
February 8,386