HC Deb 27 July 1943 vol 391 cc1407-8W
Major Petherick

asked the First Lord of the Admiralty whether members of the sea fisheries committees for Cornwall and Devon will be able under existing regulations to obtain permits to go to sea in order to carry out the investigations they may consider necessary in pursuit of their duties?

Mr. George Hall

I am informed that the members of a sea fishery committee would not normally require to proceed to sea. The executive functions of the committee are carried out through its fishery

ELEMENTARY EDUCATION 1938–39.
L.E.A. Total net expenditure. Met from
Taxes. Rates.
COUNTIES: £ £ £
Anglesey 87,353 50,528 36,825
Breconshire 119,385 62,530 56,855
Caernarvonshire 233,230 124,088 109,142
Cardiganshire 90,299 51,844 38,455
Carmarthenshire 254,293 148,147 106,146
Denbighshire 228,290 120,580 107,710
Flintshire 194,134 105,127 89,007
Glamorgan 893,149 512,207 380,942
Merionethshire 72,166 40,390 31,776
Monmouthshire 555,084 324,883 230,201
Montgomeryshire 87,837 49,531 38,306
Pembrokeshire 133,086 78,459 54,627
Radnorshire 42,022 19,933 22,089
COUNTY BOROUGHS: 444,432 219,207 225,225
Newport (Mon.) 183,431 90,981 92,450
Swansea 347,987 179,626 68,361
BOROUGHS: 15,518 8,366 7,152
Llanelly 80,396 45,012 35,384
Neath 64,406 35,250 29,156
Pembroke 19,172 10,825 8,347
Port Talbot 79,475 45,771 33,704
Wrexham 42,318 22,793 19,525
URBAN DISTRICT COUNCILS: 126,289 85,841 40,448
Abertillery 86,014 58,296 27,718
Barry 94,313 49,587 44,726
Ebbw Vale 74,181 46,016 28,165
Mountain Ash 112,416 77,779 34,637
Pontypridd 125,632 79,371 46,261
Rhondda 366,459 245,240 121,219

officer and any application from such an officer for a permit to take a boat to sea or to embark as a passenger in a bona fide fishing vessel, in the performance of his duties, would be favourably considered. I am informed, however, that a fishery officer would rarely require to proceed to sea in war-time.