§ 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. GARDNERThe 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. H. GARDNERsaid, he would inform the hon. Member on Report of the Vote.