§ 12. Sir HARRY BRITTAINasked the Minister of Transport how expenditure on the upkeep, maintenance, and improvement of roads in Great Britain for 1928 compares with the corresponding expenditure for the earliest year since 1878 for which figures are available?
§ Colonel ASHLEYThe figures for the earliest and latest years available are as follow:
| £ | |
| England and Wales, 1884–85 | 8,262,000 |
| England and Wales, 1926–27 | 52,238,000 |
| Scotland, 1880–81 | 412,000 |
| Scotland, 1926–27 | 6,373,000 |