§ Rear-Admiral Morgan-Gilesasked the Postmaster-General what percentage of new subscribers throughout the country have to wait 12 months or more to have a telephone service connected.
§ Mr. Joseph SlaterStatistics in the form requested are not available. At present, 86 per cent. of all requests for telephones are met on demand. At 31st March, 1969, when the last quarterly analysis was made, there were 87,500 on the waiting list of whom 12,300 had been waiting over 12 months.