§ Mr. Thorntonasked the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will give, for each of the last 10 years, for England and Wales, the figures of expenditure carried out by direct labour organisations and the proportion which this represents of similarly defined total expenditure of local authorities in each of those years.
§ Sir George Young:Information is collected from local authorities for the first and third quarters only in respect of the value of their direct labour organisations' new construction and repair and maintenance work. The relevant quarterly figures for local authority DLOs in England and Wales for the last 10 years are in the following table.
Value of Work done* by Local Authority Direct Labour
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April 1971 87.0 7.3 Oct. 1971 90.9 7.7 April 1972 98.8 8.2 Oct. 1972 102.1 8.7 April 1973 121.2 9.9 Oct. 1973 120.7 10.0 April 1974 129.7 11.2 Oct. 1974 138.8 12.4
April 1975 186.5 14.6 Oct.1975 193.9 17.2 April 1976 224.7 16.2 Oct. 1976 216.5 17.5 April 1977 250.8 21.5 Oct. 1977 252.2 17.6 April 1978 277.8 23.0 Oct. 1978 275.5 23.2 April 1979 284.8 25.9 Oct. 1979 317.8 27.4 April 1980 362.5 29.2 Oct. 1980 371.4 32.1 April 1981 400.9 34.9 * On construction new work and repair and maintenance. 'New Towns' construction work is excluded.† 3 months ending 31 March and 30 September.Figures on a directly comparable basis are not available for similarly defined total expenditure of local authorities.