HC Deb 25 November 1946 vol 430 c223W
131. Viscount Hinchingbrooke

asked the Secretary of State for Air when the R.A F. range at Old Harry, Studland, Dorset, will be derequisitioned.

Mr. de Freitas

We shall release the range as soon as we are satisfied that it

1. OFFICERS ENGAGED IN DIRECTING, SUPERVISING AND EDITING THE WORK OF THE SOCIAL SURVEY OF THE CENTRAL OFFICE OF INFORMATION.
L. Moss … Director … B. Comm. (Hons.), Social Research for Commercial and Public Bodies.
G. Thomas … Research Officer … Social Welfare Committee, Bolton.
Miss K. Box … Research Officer … B.A. (Oxon.).
P. Slater … Research Officer … B.A. (Oxon.), National Institute of Industrial Psychology Chief Statistician, Dept. for Selection of Personnel, Adjutant-General's Office, War Office.
B. Hutchinson … Research Officer … Ph.D. (Anthropology), London. Research Officer. Fabian Colonial Research.
D. Ginsberg … Research Officer … B.A. (Oxon.), Economic Research, Balliol College Military Intelligence.

2. TASKS ON WHICH THE SOCIAL SURVEY IS AT PRESENT ENGAGED

A. In progress:

Illness Survey (for Ministry of Health).
Retail Sales Index of Independent Traders (for Board of Trade).

B In preparation.

Town-planning Survey (for Ministry of Town and Country Planning).
Use of water-heating appliances (for Ministry of Works).
Space-utilisation (i.e., the extent to which domestic activities are affected by present room-space) (for the Ministry of Works).
Incidence of deafness in the country (for Medical Research Council).

C. Now being written:

Survey in connection with recruitment of miners (for Ministry of Fuel and Power).
Employment of miners certificated as suffering from pneumoconiosis (for Medical Research Council and Ministry of Fuel and Power)
Survey on the most convenient shop closing hours (for Departmental Committee of Home Office). Enquiry into public preferences for various kinds of holidays with special reference to holidays with pay (for the Board of Trade)