§ Lieut.- Colonel Bromley - Davenportasked the Minister of Housing and Local Government and Minister for Welsh Affairs whether he will give details of the number of appeals by advertising interests dealt with during 1957 under the Control of Advertisements Regulations, 1948; how many of these appeals were dealt with at public hearings and by correspondence, respectively; how many in each group referred, respectively, to posters, including bulletin boards but not trade signs, public information panels, and to trade signs on the premises of the occupiers concerned; and how many of each separate category were rejected or allowed.
§ Mr. BevinsThe total number of appeals decided during 1957 was 2,083. Details are as follows:
§ Mr. H. BrookeThe only comparable pre-war and post-war figures which are available are those given in the 1921 and 1951 censuses. For what is generally regarded as the Central London area (that is the City of London, the City of Westminster, the Boroughs of Finsbury and Holborn and the southern portions of the Boroughs of St. Marylebone and 135W St. Pancras) the 1921 census showed a residential population of 368,000, and for a somewhat larger area including the whole of the Boroughs of St. Marylebone and St. Pancras a working population of 1,176,000. The comparable figures in the 1951 census were 225,000 and 1,252,000, respectively.