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Port Employers

Volume 531: debated on Tuesday 26 October 1954

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asked the Minister of Labour to show, in tabular form, the number of registered employers of dock labour at the principal ports in which the National Dock Labour Board scheme operates.

The figures are:

NUMBERS OF PORT EMPLOYERS REGISTERED AT 12TH OCTOBER, 1954
Local BoardNumber of port employers
Tyne and Wear59
Middlesbrough and Hartlepools58
Hull and Goole158
Grimsby and Immingham94
Wash Ports58
East Anglia48
London444
Medway and Swale31
South Coast41
Plymouth28
Cornwall41
Bristol and Severn107
South Wales107
Liverpool145
Garston6
Manchester7
Preston11
Fleetwood4
Barrow2
Cumberland12
Ayrshire12
Greenock8
Glasgow25
Aberdeen21
East Scotland69
TOTAL1,596