§ Mr. Finchasked the President of the Board of Trade the amount of square feet of factory space built in South Wales, compared with the home counties, during 1958.
§ Sir D. EcclesIndustrial building schemes, of over 5,000 square feet, notified as completed in 1958 totalled 2.6 million square feet in the South Wales and Monmouthshire Development Area, and 8.8 million square feet in the Home Counties (that is in the Counties of London, Middlesex, Hertfordshire and Surrey and parts of the counties of Essex, Kent, Buckinghamshire, Berkshire and Bedfordshire). The total number of insured employed in the South Wales and Monmouthshire Development Area is 698,000 (3.2 per cent. of the total insured population of Great Britain); the total in the Home Counties is 5,456,000 (25 per cent. of the total insured population).