HC Deb 26 April 1965 vol 711 cc22-3W
Mr. Russell Johnston

asked the Postmaster-General if he will publish a table showing the numbers on the waiting list for telephones, county by county, in Scotland at the latest convenient date; and what percentage this represents of the total number of subscribers in each area.

Mr. Joseph Slater

Telephone areas do not correspond precisely with county boundaries and therefore the figures quoted are in respect of exchanges mainly serving the counties concerned.

The figures at 31st March, 1965, are:

County Waiting List Waiting List as a percentage of total working connexions in each county
Aberdeenshire … 102 0.3
Angus … 16 0.06
Argyllshire … 28 0.4
Ayrshire … 189 0.6
Banffshire … — —
Berwickshire … — —
Bute … 1 —
Caithness … 4 0.2
Clackmannanshire … 34 1.4
Dumfriesshire … — —
Dunbartonshire … 167 0.7
East Lothian … 9 0.2
Fife … 71 0.3
Glasgow … 55 0.05
Inverness-shire … 28 0.3
Kincardineshire … 6 0.2
Kinross-shire … — —
Kirkcudbrightshire … — —
Lanarkshire … 1,242 2.6
Midlothian … 148 0.2
Moray and Nairn … — —
Orkney … — —
Peeblesshire … — —
Perthshire … 5 0.03
Renfrewshire … 92 0.2
Ross-shire … 4 0.08
Roxburghshire … — —
Selkirkshire … — —
Shetland … 2 0.1
Stirlingshire … 63 0.5
Sutherland … 5 0.4
West Lothian … 58 1.2
Wigtownshire … — —