Major Hicks-Beachasked the Minister of Works how many building workers in the Cheltenham area are employed respectively on the building of new houses, on industrial buildings and new schools, and on repairs, decorations and alterations to houses and other buildings.
§ Mr. StokesThe figures are given in the following tables, first for the area of the Cheltenham borough, and secondly for a wider area comprising the boroughs of Cheltenham and Tewkesbury, the urban district of Charlton Kings and Cirencester, and the rural districts of Cheltenham, Cirencester, North Cotswold and Northleach:
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Type of work Cheltenham borough Wider area New houses 293 979 New industrial buildings 26 141 New schools 24 32 Repairs, decorations and alterations to houses 477 993 All other repairs, decorations and alterations 592 1,061 TOTAL 1,412 3,206 The figures relate to contractors' labour, but in the case of housing they also include the directly employed labour of the local authorities. In the Cheltenham borough this amounted to two men on new housing work and 34 men on other housing work; in the wider area the corresponding figures were nine and 89 respectively.