HC Deb 08 October 1940 vol 365 cc273-4W
Mr. Lyons

asked the Minister of Supply the result of salvage work for each Metropolitan borough and for the large cities outside London, respectively, for the month of August, 1940, giving the population in each case?

Mr. Harold Macmillan

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

Metropolitan Boroughs. Population. Value.
£
Battersea 141,000 483
Bermondsey 97,240 445
Bethnal Green 92,910 316
Camberwell 229,300 430
Chelsea 39,800 137
Deptford 95,460 545
Finsbury 56,960 299
Fulham 137,700 629
Greenwich 95,770 568
Hackney 180,000 922
Hammersmith 125,100 131
Hampstead 70,000 692
Holborn 34,350 317
Islington and 295,400 1,235
Stoke Newington 50,350
Metropolitan Boroughs. Population. Value.
£
Kensington 130,000 1,667
Lambeth 272,800 1,139
Lewisham 229,000 758
London, City of 10,808 411
Paddington 110,000 644
Poplar 134,400 769
St. Marylebone 97,627 786
St. Pancras 138,000 698
Shor[...]ditch 84,000 345
Southwark 171,659 453
Stepney 210,000 656
Wandsworth 353,110 893
Westminster City of 129,579 1,451
Woolwich 150,000 358
3,962,323 £18,177

The corresponding totals for previous months were:

June £11,214
July £17,350
Large Cities outside London. Population. Value.
£
Glasgow 1,131, 600 18,036
Birmingham 1,048,000 11,318
Liverpool 855,000 6,347
Manchester 733,000 6,376
Sheffield 520,000 5,386
Leeds 494,000 4,605
Edinburgh 475,500 6,414
Bristol 413,000 3,256
Total 5,669,600 £61,738

The corresponding totals for previous months were:

June £45,805
July £57,143