54. Colonel Crosth waite-Eyreasked the Chancellor of the Exchequer to state, for each year since 1945, the annual number of applications received by the Capital Issues Committee; and, of these, how many were accepted and how many rejected.
§ Mr. R. A. ButlerThe following is the reply:
APPLICATIONS CONSIDERED BY THE CAPITAL ISSUES COMMITTEE Year Total Accepted Rejected 1945 1,116 938 178 1946 1,047 946 101 1947 1,365 1,203 162 1948 1,107 991 116 1949 1,126 1,042 84 1950 977 857 120 1951 1,271 1,177 94 1952 1,159 1,087 72 1953 1,396 1,346 50 1954 (January-September). 1,582 1,531 51 12,146 11,118 1,028