§ Mr. Liptonasked the Secretary of State for Social Services how many old and disabled people have been helped with telephone installations and rentals in the various London boroughs.
§ Mr. Alfred MorrisDuring the year 1973–74, the most recent for which figures are available, the position was as follows:
Local Authority Installation of telephones Telephone rental Camden … 463 853 Greenwich … 411 564 Hackney … 120 616 Hammersmith … 141 156 Islington … Details not yet available Details not yet available Kensington … 104 323 Lambeth … 272 482 Lewisham … 633 700 Southwark … 103 460 Tower Hamlets … 153 523 Wandsworth … 636 1,437 Westminster … 225 414 City of London … 2 17 Barking … 155 67 Barnet … 152 272 Bexley … 101 144 Brent … 362 172 Bromley … 77 78 Croydon … 103 166 Ealing … 214 447 Enfield … 107 128 Haringey … 329 140 Harrow … 139 125 Havering … 189 71 Hillingdon … 187 89 Hounslow … 122 166 Kingston upon Thames … 61 94 Merton … 208 225 Newham … 91 141 Redbridge … 79 239 Richmond upon Thames … 238 34 Sutton … 134 274 Waltham Forest … 201 77 Total … 6,512 9,694 Note: The figure of telephone rentals excludes those cases where the telephone was installed during the period and part or whole of the installation costs was met by the authority.
Although comprehensive figures are not yet available for the last financial year, those so far received suggest that installations will be of the order of 6,000 and rentals of the order of 17,000 in 1974–75.