§ 65. Mr. Ernest Daviesasked the Minister of Transport and Civil Aviation if he will arrange for a survey to be made over an adequately representative period of the amount of goods carried by C licensed vehicles, of the distances carried, and percentage of mileage run loaded and empty, respectively.
§ Mr. WatkinsonThe survey to be taken in the seven days beginning Monday, 21st April next, of which informed the hon. Member in answer to his Question of 19th February, will provide most of this information, but will take me time to analyse.
§ Mr. Ernest Daviesasked the Minister of Transport and Civil Aviation if he will publish in the OFFICIAL REPORT figures showing the composition of C licensed fleets, showing those comprising less than 10 vehicles and progressively above that number in units of 10 or in any other convenient form.
§ Mr. WatkinsonI am afraid that this information is not available and could not be obtained except at a disproportionate cost in time and labour.
§ Mr. Ernest Daviesasked the Minister of Transport and Civil Aviation if he will publish in the OFFICIAL REPORT figures showing the composition of C licensed fleets by unladen weight of vehicles showing those comprising vehicles of less than 47W two tons only, and progressively by units of one ton or in any other convenient form.
§ Mr. WatkinsonThe information asked for is as follows:
NUMBER OF GOODS VEHICLES AUTHORISED UNDER "C" CARRIERS' LICENCES ACCORDING TO UNLADEN WEIGHT CATEGORIES AS AT 31ST DECEMBER. 1957 Unladen Weights in Tons Exceeding Not Exceeding — 2 … … … 750,908 2 3 … … … 238,409 3 4 … … … 45,337 4 5 … … … 16,939 5 6 … … … 8,118 6 7 … … … 3,900 7 8 … … … 3,142 8 9 … … … 1,895 9 10 … … … 1,047 10 — … … … 506 Grand Total … … … 1,070,201 No analysis of the number of operators owning the vehicles in each weight category is available.