§ Mr. Gwynfor Evansasked the Postmaster-General if he will publish the percentage of households in Wales, Scotland, and England, respectively, which had a telephone in each of the years 1926 to 1966.
§ Mr. Edward ShortI am sorry that I can only give figures for 1951 and 1961 for which census figures of households are available, and for 1966, based on a commercial survey of households.
P.O. Directorate Wales and Border Counties per cent. P.O. Directorate Scotland per cent. P.O. Regions England per cent. 1951 … 5.5 10.9 11.7 1961 … 10.1 17.9 18.8 1966 … 15.0 23.0 25.6