HC Deb 23 January 1976 vol 903 cc597-8W
Mr. Neubert

asked the Secretary of State for Social Services what is the latest estimate of the population of South-East England; how many are stockbrokers; and what proportion this represents as a percentage.

Mr. Meacher

The population of the South-East Region at 30th June 1974 was provisionally estimated to be 16,954,800.

No figures giving the numbers of stockbrokers are available.

In the 1971 Census of Population stockbrokers were included with insurance, shipping and air transport brokers, underwriters, stock jobbers and financial agents in the category "finance and insurance brokers, and financial agents". According to a 10 per cent. sample of census returns the number of economically active persons in this category who were usually resident in the South-East region was 20,140, which represented 0.24 per cent. of all economically active persons usually resident in the South-East.