HC Deb 26 October 1954 vol 531 cc259-60W
Mr. Callaghan

asked the Minister of Labour to show, in tabular form, the number of registered employers of dock labour at the principal ports in which the National Dock Labour Board scheme operates.

Mr. Watkinson

The figures are:

NUMBERS OF PORT EMPLOYERS REGISTERED AT 12TH OCTOBER, 1954
Local Board Number of port employers
Tyne and Wear … 59
Middlesbrough and Hartlepools … 58
Hull and Goole … 158
Grimsby and Immingham … 94
Wash Ports … 58
East Anglia … 48
London … 444
Medway and Swale … 31
South Coast … 41
Plymouth … 28
Cornwall … 41
Bristol and Severn … 107
South Wales … 107
Liverpool … 145
Garston … 6
Manchester … 7
Preston … 11
Fleetwood … 4
Barrow … 2
Cumberland … 12
Ayrshire … 12
Greenock … 8
Glasgow … 25
Aberdeen … 21
East Scotland … 69
TOTAL … 1,596