§ Mr. Alfred Morrisasked the Secretary of State for Transport what percentage of households in (a) Manchester and (b) England have the regular use of a car or van.
§ Mr. Kenneth ClarkeInformation is not available for Manchester later than the 1971 census. Up-to-date information will not be available until the 1981 census results have been analysed. Between censuses, regional estimates of car ownership are made using data from sample household surveys. The latest estimates are published in "Transport Statistics 1969–1979". The estimates of the proportion of households with regular use of a car or van for(a) the North-West region and (b) England are 52 and 58 per cent. respectively.