HC Deb 18 November 1952 vol 507 cc137-8W
50. Mr. Swingler

asked the Secretary of State for War to publish in the OFFICIAL REPORT a list of the numbers of men who have enrolled in the Home Guard in each of the counties and county boroughs of England and Wales at the latest date for which figures are available.

Mr. Head

I cannot give the figures for the county boroughs separately, but the figures of enrolment by counties, together with those for Scotland and Northern Ireland, up to 15th October this year, are as follow:

County Numbers enrolled up to 15th October, 1952
ENGLAND:
Bedfordshire 151
Berkshire 159
Buckinghamshire 174
Cambridgeshire 263
Cheshire 374
City of London 141
County of London 541
Cornwall 157
Cumberland 126
Derbyshire 152
Devonshire 208
Dorsetshire 192
Durham 423
Essex 1,301
Gloucestershire 186
Herefordshire 94
Hertfordshire 399
Huntingdonshire 109
Isle of Ely 57
Isle of Man 38
Isle of Wight 90
Kent 2,326
Lancashire 934
Leicestershire 173
Lincolnshire 1,084
Middlesex 778
Nottinghamshire 183
Norfolk 751
Northamptonshire 335
Northumberland 360
Oxfordshire 148
Rutlandshire 95
Shropshire 86
Somersetshire 350
Southampton 764
Staffordshire 321
Suffolk 644
Surrey 1,102
Sussex 1,448
Warwickshire 474
Westmorland 63
Wiltshire 182
Worcestershire 160
Yorkshire, East Riding 438
Yorkshire, North Riding 303
Yorkshire, West Riding 630
County Numbers enrolled up to 15th October, 1952
WALES AND MONMOUTH:
Anglesey 49
Brecknockshire 31
Caernarvonshire 55
Cardiganshire 29
Carmarthenshire 60
Denbighshire 53
Flintshire 29
Glamorganshire 301
Merionethshire 34
Monmouthshire 149
Montgomery 1
Pembrokeshire 26
Radnorshire 22
SCOTLAND:
Aberdeen 124
Angus 103
Argyll 70
Ayr 116
Banff 14
Berwick 39
Caithness 29
Dunbarton 38
Dumfries 67
East Lothian 30
Fife 104
Hebrides 32
Inverness 48
Kincardine 20
Kirkcudbright 37
Lanark 252
Midlothian 152
Moray 17
Orkney 32
Peebles 11
Perth 43
Renfrew 49
Ross and Cromarty 34
Roxburgh 12
Selkirk 33
Stirling 31
Sutherland 38
West Lothian 11
Wigtown 43
Zetland 11
NORTHERN IRELAND:
Antrim 32
Armagh 5
Down 14
Fermanagh 4
Londonderry 21
Tyrone 4
Total 22,026