HC Deb 20 May 1975 vol 892 c314W
Mr. Crawford

asked the Secretary of State for Employment if he will publish in the Official Report his most recent estimates of the ownership, in per capita terms, of colour television sets, deep freezers, and refrigerators in Scotland and in the regions of England.

Mr. Booth

The information in the table below is from the Family Expenditure Survey, and is for the two years 1972 and 1973 taken together in order to reduce sampling variation. Estimates are not available for the ownership of colour television, or for deep freezers, separately. The estimates relate to households with the goods, as the coverage of the survey does not enable true per capita estimates to be made.

FAMILY EXPENDITURE SURVEY 1972–73 PERCENTAGE OF HOUSEHOLDS WITH GOODS AVAILABLE
Refrigerator (including deep freezers) Television (including colour)
Scotland 65 95
North 62 93
Yorkshire and Humberside 69 95
North West 70 93
East Midlands 76 95
West Midlands 74 94
East Anglia 76 93
South East 88 92
South West 83 92