§ 53. Mr. Westasked the Minister of Health the increase in population in the Development Areas from 1931 to the latest date for which statistics are available; the population growth in Great Britain as a whole over the same period: and if the percentage increase in the Development Areas has been greater or smaller than that for Great Britain as a whole, and by how much.
§ Mr. TurtonThe enumerated population of the Development Areas in England and Wales, as they are at present constituted, fell between the 1931 and 1951 censuses by just over 0.25 per cent., while the population of England and Wales as a whole increased by nearly 10 per cent.