§ Mr. Masonasked the Postmaster-General what was the size of the waiting list for telephones in each telephone area in Great Britain and Northern Ireland at 30th September, 1960; what proportion this bore in each case to the total number of subscribers in the area; and by what date each area will reach the position in which requests for connection on a telephone can be put in hand immediately they are received.
§ Mr. BevinsI give the figures below.
I cannot say when it will be possible for the connections of telephones to be put in hand immediately on request. Our ability to do this depends partly on the capital resources available and partly on the rate of demand for telephones which is now higher than ever before.
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Telephone Area Waiting list (30th September, 1960) Waiting list as a percentage of total number of subscribers Aberdeen 235 0.4 Bedford 757 1.5 Belfast 1,030 1.3 Birmingham 3,810 2.8 Blackburn 822 1.3 Bournemouth 98 0.2 Bradford 318 0.4 Brighton 1,207 1.1 Bristol 258 0.3 Cambridge 579 1.0
Telephone Area Waiting list (30th September, 1960) Waiting list as a percentage of total number of subscribers Canterbury 346 0.5 Cardiff 1,492 2.1 Cnester 593 1.2 Colchester 216 0.5 Coventry 2,756 4.6 Dundee 62 0.1 Edinburgh 101 0.1 Exeter Nil Nil Glasgow 849 0.5 Gloucester 449 1.0 Guildford 1,000 1.7 Lancaster 403 0.9 Leeds 900 1.0 Leicester 433 0.6 Lincoln 966 1.9 Liverpool 288 0.2 London, Centre Nil Nil London, City Nil Nil London, East 1,914 1.2 London, North 1,076 0.6 London, North-West Nil Nil London, South-East 142 0.1 London, South-West 2,117 0.8 London, West 3,948 2.0 Manchester 3,040 1.5 Middlesbrough 585 1.2 Newcastle-on-Tyne 1,387 1.4 Norwich 122 0.3 Nottingham 603 0.6 Oxford 2,688 5.0 Peterborough 77 0.2 Plymouth 46 0.1 Portsmouth 1,111 2.0 Preston 967 1.3 Reading 1,940 2.8 Scotland, West 1,222 1.3 Sheffield 832 1.1 Shrewsbury 347 0.8 Southampton 103 0.2 Southend-on-Sea 1,273 2.3 Stoke-on-Trent 51 0.1 Swansea 87 0.2 Taunton Nil Nil Tunbridge Wells 415 0.7 West Midland 3,235 4.2 York 275 0.6