HC Deb 24 January 1980 vol 977 c346W
Mr. Ralph Howell

asked the Secretary of State for Employment if he will publish figures comparing the percentage of households in each of the United Kingdom, France and Germany which possess the following items: black and white television, colour television, refrigerator, freezer, washing machine, motor car and telephone.

Mr. Jim Lester

The available data are given in the following table:

Services Commission to achieve savings on staff and planned expenditure, the commission has made proposals to me which include a change in the existing means of providing occupational guidance. The effects of this change would be to rely more on occupational information in self-help form and less on the counselling of individuals. It is too early to say how individual occupational guidance units would be affected.