Mr. Lucasasked the Assistant-Postmaster-General the number of outstanding applications for telephones in Brentford and Chiswick to the latest conventient date; the duration of the longest application; and how these figures compare with the corresponding details at 1st October, 1951.
§ Mr GammansThe total outstanding at 1st October, 1951, was 628 and is now 433, excluding 208 applications in course of being met. Five hundred and fifty-one telephones have been connected in the past 12 months. I am glad to say that we hope to join up soon the earliest application outstanding, which is dated June, 1949.