§ 117. Mr. Ellis Smithasked the Minister of Works what action has been taken on 71W the Report of the Working Party on the Building Industry; and what further action it is intended to take.
§ Mr. StokesI would refer my hon. Friend to my reply of 8th May to a Question by the hon. Member for Hornsey (Mr. Gammans), and to the Debate about the Working Party Report on 22nd May. Last week I completed the first review of the recommendations in the Working Party Report and the Report of the Anglo-American Productivity Team with my National Consultative Council, agreed on the action to be taken on a number of points, and arranged for further detailed
NUMBERS EMPLOYED IN THE BUILDING INDUSTRY IN ENGLAND ON HOUSING AND NON-HOUSING (thousands) — Housing in England Non-housing in England New work Other work *New work and other work Total 1948 213 262 359 834 1949 183 262 384 829 1950 (Provisional figures) 194 221 416 831 * Owing to a change in the basis of the statistics a number of men included in this column in 1948 and 1949 appear in the non-housing column in 1950.
§ Mr. Ellis Smithasked the Minister of Works the numbers employed on housing in the month of April, 1948, 1949 and 1950 respectively, in the Cities of Liverpool, Manchester, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Kingston-upon-Hull, Bradford, Leicester, Nottingham, Blackburn and Stoke-on-Trent, respectively.
§ Mr. StokesIt is regretted that the information required cannot be provided without the expenditure of an unjustifiable amount of staff time.