§ 93. Mr. Woodhouseasked the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry what was the number of bankruptcies in the building industry in each of the last five calendar years and in the first six months of the present year.
§ Mr. RidleyFollowing is the information:
The available figures of the numbers of bankruptcies, and of other forms of insolvency, are given below.
that all costs involved in such changeover of gas supplies must be met by the appropriate gas board.
§ Mr. RidleyGas boards are statutorily required to bear the cost of converting appliances. I am informed that responsibility for alterations to buildings would depend on whether these were necessitated by conversion or to remedy existing defects revealed by pre-conversion surveys.