§ Mr. Nicholas Wintertonasked the Secretary of State for Industry, pursuant to his reply given to the hon. Member for Macclesfield on 12th June, Official Report, column 352, why he does not regard the total number of employees in each of the public corporations for which his Department is responsible as being a national statistic for which he is answerable to the House.
§ Mr. HuckfieldThis information is collected by the corporations themselves and only they will have the correct figures. I think it more appropriate therefore for the corporations to supply the information direct to the hon. Member and in view of his sustained interest I am asking them to do so.