§ Mr. Rookerasked the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will make a statement detailing any reduction or abolition in the collection or publication of statistics or reports by his Department since May 1979, indicating if such information is available from any other source: and what financial savings have been made by any such changes.
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§ Mr. Younger:In the Scottish Office reductions have been made in sample size or coverage of:
The following have been stopped:
- Farm workers' wages and hours inquiry
- Autumn store livestock sale prices
- Horticultural survey
- General purpose agriculture field inquiry
- Cereal stocks survey
- Financial information on local government expenditure and income
- Collection of information on drownings
- The 1980 school leaver destination survey (comparable information will be available from a survey carried out by Edinburgh University)
- Publication of the 1979 volume of Agricultural Statistics, Scotland (information will be published in the 1980 volume or made available on request)
Methods of collecting further education and teacher training statistics have been simplified.
Publication of the Scottish Economic Bulletin has been reduced from three
Category of vehicle Toll for single journey (existing toll in brackets) Motor cycles etc. 10p (Nil) Cars, small goods vehicles etc. 30p (15p) Scheduled buses 50p (25p) Heavy vehicles covered by special compounding of payment arrangements 50p (30p) Heavy vehicles not so covered 80p (50p) Vehicles requiring an escort £10 (£5) Copies of the draft order are available for inspection by members of the public at the bridge, at local authority offices in the vicinity of the Bridge and at New St. Andrew's House in Edinburgh. Objections to the making of the order may be lodged with me at any time up to 27 November 1980.
A public inquiry may be held into any objections after which I shall make an order fixing the level of the new tolls and the date on which they will come into operation. The order will then be laid before Parliament and will be subject to annulment in pursuance of a resolution by either House.