§ Mr. Bishopasked the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry if he will seek to obtain and publish information as to the ratio of computers per million of the population in the United Kingdom and in other countries for each year since 1968.
§ Sir G. HoweThe information so far as it is available is as follows:
should not be a condition of entry unless there are particular circumstances affording grounds for confining it to one sex, and that the professions should examine their restrictive practices with a view to abolishing them or amending them; and what action he has taken since the publication of the report to encourage those 203W professions where sex discrimination is practised to amend their rules and their ways.
§ Sir G. HoweThe Monopolies Commission found that the London Stock Exchange and midwifery were the only two professions with such restrictions. The London Stock Exchange has announced that women members will be admitted from 25th March 1973. To allow men to train and practise as midwives would require an amendment to the Midwives Act 1951. This is a matter for my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Social Services.