§ 66. Mr. Mainwaringasked the President of the Board of Trade how many applications for extensions to their premises have been received on behalf of existing undertakings within Welsh trading estates during the last five years; how many were approved; how many constructed, or in course of construction; and how many rejected.
§ Mr. P. ThorneycroftIn the five calendar years 1949–53, 89 extensions of more than 1,000 sq. ft. have been approved for factories managed by Wales and Monmouthshire Industrial Estates Limited; of these 72 have been built, eight were in course of construction at the end of 1953 and nine had been approved but not started. I regret that the information asked for in the first and last parts of the Question is not available.