§ Mr. G. Brownasked the President of the Board of Trade if he can now announce the quota of foreign-made nylon stockings for which import licences are to be granted in the first half of 1953; and whether it is proposed at the same time to make an allocation of nylon yarn to British manufacturers to be used for the home trade.
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§ Mr. P. ThorneycroftNo. I hope to announce quotas for the items included in the Schedules to Notice to Importers No. 518, before the end of November. Allocations of nylon yarn to British stocking manufacturers are made half-yearly and manufacturers have been notified today of their allocations for the period beginning next Sunday. Manufacturers are not prevented from selling at home the stockings which they make from the yarn allocated to them, but a manufacturer's yarn
Period New factories (5,000 sq. ft. and over) Extensions to factories (5,000 sq. ft. and over) Number Area (thousand sq. ft.) Number Area (thousand sq. ft.) 1st January to 30th June: 1950 … … … … 25 621 44 611 1951 … … … … 19 793 39 678 1952 … … … … 8 124 24 739