§ Mr. Masonasked the Postmaster-General if he will now give the size of the waiting list in each telephone area of the United Kingdom at 31st March, 1960; and what proportion this bore in each case to the total number of subscribers in each area.
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§ Mr. BevinsI give the figures below:
Telephone Area Waiting List (31st March, 1960) Waiting List as a percentage of total number of subscribers Aberdeen 251 0.4 Bedford 775 1.6 Belfast 1,190 1.6 Birmingham 3,758 2.8 Blackburn 783 1.3 Bournemouth 107 0.2 Bradford 432 0.5 Brighton 786 0.7 Bristol 154 0.2 Cambridge 480 0.9 Canterbury 283 0.4 Cardiff 1,707 2.5 Chester 417 0.9 Colchester 149 0.3 Coventry 2,459 4.2 Dundee 35 0.1 Edinburgh 91 0.1 Exeter 3 — Glasgow 711 0.4 Gloucester 339 0.8 Guildford 1,085 1.9 Lancaster 316 0.8 Leeds 658 0.8 Leicester 416 0.6 Lincoln 986 2.0 Liverpool 169 0.1 London— Centre Nil Nil City Nil Nil East 1,905 1.2 North 1,462 0.8 North West 28 0.1 South East 1,353 0.6 Southwest 3,245 1.3 West 3,856 2.0 Manchester 3,124 1.6 Middlesbrough 578 1.2 Newcastle-on-Tyne 1,094 1.1 Norwich 120 0.3 Nottingham 576 0.6 Oxford 1,960 3.5 Peterborough 88 0.2 Plymouth 44 0.1 Portsmouth 1,041 1.9 Preston 909 1.3 Reading 1,634 2.5 Scotland West 1,435 1.6 Sheffield 657 0.9 Shrewsbury 417 0.9 Southampton 106 0.2 Southend-on-Sea 1,095 2.1 Stoke-on-Trent 49 0.1 Swansea 184 0.5 Taunton Nil Nil Tunbridge Wells 374 0.6 West Midland 2,645 3.5 York 277 0.6