The text on this page has been created from Hansard archive content, it may contain typographical errors.
Mr. Lipton
asked the Secretary of State for Social Services how many old and disabled people have been helped with telephone installations and rentals in the various London boroughs.
Mr. Alfred Morris
During the year 1973–74, the most recent for which figures are available, the position was as follows:
| Local Authority | Installation of telephones | Telephone rental | |
| Camden | … | 463 | 853 |
| Greenwich | … | 411 | 564 |
| Hackney | … | 120 | 616 |
| Hammersmith | … | 141 | 156 |
| Islington | … | Details not yet available | Details not yet available |
| Kensington | … | 104 | 323 |
| Lambeth | … | 272 | 482 |
| Lewisham | … | 633 | 700 |
| Southwark | … | 103 | 460 |
| Tower Hamlets | … | 153 | 523 |
| Wandsworth | … | 636 | 1,437 |
| Westminster | … | 225 | 414 |
| City of London | … | 2 | 17 |
| Barking | … | 155 | 67 |
| Barnet | … | 152 | 272 |
| Bexley | … | 101 | 144 |
| Brent | … | 362 | 172 |
| Bromley | … | 77 | 78 |
| Croydon | … | 103 | 166 |
| Ealing | … | 214 | 447 |
| Enfield | … | 107 | 128 |
| Haringey | … | 329 | 140 |
| Harrow | … | 139 | 125 |
| Havering | … | 189 | 71 |
| Hillingdon | … | 187 | 89 |
| Hounslow | … | 122 | 166 |
| Kingston upon Thames | … | 61 | 94 |
| Merton | … | 208 | 225 |
| Newham | … | 91 | 141 |
| Redbridge | … | 79 | 239 |
| Richmond upon Thames | … | 238 | 34 |
| Sutton | … | 134 | 274 |
| Waltham Forest | … | 201 | 77 |
| Total | … | 6,512 | 9,694 |
Note: The figure of telephone rentals excludes those cases where the telephone was installed during the period and part or whole of the installation costs was met by the authority.
Although comprehensive figures are not yet available for the last financial year, those so far received suggest that installations will be of the order of 6,000 and rentals of the order of 17,000 in 1974–75.