§ Mr. Hamiltonasked the President of the Board of Trade the value of factory building under construction in Scotland in each quarter since June, 1951; and the estimated figures for the remainder of the current financial year.
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§ Mr. P. ThorneycroftAs explained in the Board of Trade Journal on the 2nd October, 1954, the factory building statistics now record area instead of value figures. The following figures show the number of projects of 5,000 sq. ft. and over, and the total area under construction in Scotland at the end of the quarters specified:
Quarter ending Number of schemes Area (thousand sq. ft.) September, 1951 … 163 6,789 December, 1951 … 160 7,249 March, 1952 … 156 6,844 June, 1952 … 153 6,482 September, 1952 … 144 5,591 December, 1952 … 123 5,157 March, 1953 … 127 5,011 June, 1953 … 134 5,191 September, 1953 … 136 5,205 December, 1953 … 137 4,027 March, 1954 … 149 3,992 June, 1954 … 143 3,673 September, 1954 … 132 3,465 The numbers and area of factory building projects in Scotland which were approved between January and September, 1954, were substantially greater than the corresponding figures during either of the two previous years, but it is not possible from this information to make any reliable estimate of the amount of factory building which will be under construction in Scotland during the remainder of the current financial year.