§ Mr. Beaneyasked the Minister of Housing and Local Government and Minister for Welsh Affairs if, on the basis of the 1961 Census, he will give the number and percentage of persons living more than two to a room in the London area, and in each London borough separately; and if he will give the corresponding figures for 1951.
§ Mr. CorfieldThe information in the 1961 Census has not been tabulated in a form enabling exact figures to be given, but estimates prepared by the General Register Office for the Administrative County of London and the metropolitan boroughs are shown in the table below.
107WExact figures are available of the number of persons living more than 1½ persons per room in the administrative county; these were 12.2 per cent. in 1951, and 11.5 per cent. in 1961, of persons living in private households.
§ Mr. Beaneyasked the Minister of Housing and Local Government and Minister for Welsh Affairs if, on the basis of the 1961 Census for London, he will give the number and percentage of persons living more than 1½, persons per room in each of the following categories, namely, owner-occupiers, local authority tenants, tenants of unfurnished privately rented accommodation, and tenants of furnished privately rented accommodation.
§ Mr. CorfieldI regret that existing census tabulations do not enable the General Register Office to make reasonably accurate estimates by type of tenure. The total number of persons living at more than 1½ persons per room as shown in the 1961 census for London was 349,153, or 11.5 per cent of the total of persons in all private households.
§ Mr. Beaneyasked the Minister of Housing and Local Government and Minister for Welsh Affairs if, on the basis of the 1961 Census for London, he will give the number and percentage of persons with more than two rooms per head in each of the following categories, namely, owner-occupiers, tenants of furnished privately rented accommodation and tenants of unfurnished privately rented accommodation.
§ Mr. CorfieldI regret that existing census tabulations do not enable the General Register Office to make reasonably accurate estimates by type of tenure. The total number of persons living at less than ½ a person per room as shown in the 1961 census for London was 264,650, or 8.8 per cent. of persons living in all private households.