§ Mr. Meacherasked the Secretary of State for the Environment what has been the total of fatal and non-fatal injuries sustained, respectively, on the roads and in other forms of transport in each of the last five years; and what was the annual expenditure from public funds on accident prevention and on research into accident prevention, respectively, in each of these years.
§ Mr. PeytonFollowing are the figures:
grants given to building societies to pay interest rates.
§ Mr. ChannonThe association has been told that the Government have already given substantial help to council tenants during stage 2 by increasing the needs allowances in the rent rebate scheme at a cost of some £30 million this year, and that a deferment of council rent increases would only prolong anomalies in rent structures, which the Housing Finance Act is designed to end.