HC Deb 24 May 1894 vol 24 c1181
MR. CHAPLIN (Lincolnshire, Sleaford)

I beg to ask the President of the Board of Agriculture if he can state what proportion of the sum of £90,860, estimated for the general revision of the 6-inch and 25-inch maps of Great Britain for 1894–5, will be required for the completion of town scale maps already in hand; what has been the total amount expended by the Ordnance Survey upon the production and publication of town maps on a scale larger than 1–2,500th; what is the number of such maps; what has been the average amount annually spent on the revision of such maps; and what is the proportion of town maps that have been made on a scale less than 1–2,500th?

MR. H. GARDNER

The proportion of the sum of £90,860 provided in the Estimates for 1894–5 for the completion of the re-survey of Scottish counties and for the general revision of the 6-inch and 25-inch maps of Great Britain, which will be required for the completion of town maps on the 10-foot scale already in hand, is £56,000. The estimated expenditure on the production and publication of town maps on a scale larger than 1–2,500 is £550,000. The approximate number of such maps is 14,000. The average amount annually spent on the revision of such maps since 1870 is £3,800. No maps of towns have been made on a scale less than 1–2,500 since the commencement of the Cadastral Survey, and our present proposals do not involve any alteration in this respect.

MR. WEIR

inquired how much of the money would be set aside for Scotland?

MR. H. GARDNER

said, he would inform the hon. Member on Report of the Vote.

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