asked the Secretary of State for Wales if he will publish in the Official Report the number of public and private sector housing starts and completions for each of the last six months in Wales.

In the months July to December 1974, the latest six-month period for which data are available, the information is as follows:committees to which he is entitled to nominate; how many names are now before him; and how many of them are women.

In making public appointments it is necessary to secure people best fitted for the jobs in question, and one aid to this is to take note of people with appropriate qualifications and experience, and it is always useful to hear of individual names. These records are being constantly updated, with the result that there is no settled total at any one time.