§ Mr. Millanasked the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will state the total number of clerical and other office jobs dispensed from London and the South-East, respectively, in each of the last five years.
§ Mr. SpeedThe following are the numbers of jobs moved from central London by clients of the Location of Offices Bureau during each of the last five years ended 31st March:
Research by the bureau suggests that total movement from central London is probably twice that amount. Deducting the dispersal from central London to the rest of the greater London area, I estimate that some 70,000 office jobs may have been moved out of greater London during the last five years. Information is not available on the amount of office dispersal out of the South-East in this period.
1967–68 … … … 14,002 1968–69 … … … 10,995 1969–70 … … … 9,367 1970–71 … … … 8,040 1971–72 … … … 12,884 55,288