HC Deb 08 July 1966 vol 731 c113W
Mr. Roebuck

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will state the cost to public funds of the Metropolitan Police providing escorts for lorries with abnormally wide loads in 1960, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964, and 1965.

Mr. Roy Jenkins

No record is available of the cost to public funds of the Metropolitan Police providing escorts for lorries with abnormally wide loads, but the estimated cost in respect of abnormal indivisible loads of all kinds was:

£
1960 15,342
1961 18,500
1962 20,388
1963 22,040
1964 20,403
1965 21,160