§ 42. Sir D. Walker-Smithasked the Minister of Housing and Local Government if he will particularise the statement in the first sentence of paragraph, 5 of the White Paper on Offices specifying the superficial area of floor space represented, respectively, by outstanding planning permissions and Third Schedule rights, the date or dates at which they have been assessed, and the ratio of floor space to workers on which the estimate of a quarter of a million further office jobs is calculated.
§ Mr. CrossmanThe estimate is based on outstanding planning permissions for new offices totalling 14 million square feet net addition in central London and some 20 million square feet in the rest of the conurbation. The estimate also takes into account rights to a 10 per cent. increase in floor space on replacement of existing office buildings in central London, which could add some 6½ million square feet. These are all 1962 figures. At 150 square feet per worker this was the equivalent of over a quarter of a million jobs.