§ MR. SOARES (Devonshire, Barnstaple)To ask the President of the Local Government Board whether an estimate can be given of the total number of light motor-cars now in use in England, Scotland, and Wales; if so, what is such estimate.
(Answered by Mr. Gerald Balfour.) According to the Return moved for last 318 year by my hon. friend the Member for the New Forest Division, up to the 1st April, 1904, 28,073 motor-cars and motor-cycles had been registered in England and Wales, and 1,903 in Scotland. I am not in a position to give an estimate of the total number now in use.