§ Mr. Peter Bruinvelsasked the Secretary of State for Transport if he will publish in the Official Report a table showing how much money is spent per mile on highway maintenance in each county.
§ Mrs. ChalkerThe most readily available information, which is for 1981–82, is as follows:
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County Maintenance Expenditure per mile (all roads) £ Avon 6,024 Bedfordshire 6,847 Berkshire 4,986 Buckinghamshire 7,353 Cambridgeshire 4,297 Cheshire 6,056 Cleveland 7,310 Cornwall 2,672 Cumbria 3,152 Derbyshire 5,848 Devon 3,395 Dorset 3,157 Durham 5,869 East Sussex 4,217 Essex 4,968 Gloucestershire 3,469 Greater Manchester 7,175 Hampshire 4,298 Hereford & Worcester 4,322 Hertfordshire 6,206 Humberside 6,267 Isle of Wight 4,548 Kent 4,826 Lancashire 6,775 Leicestershire 5,832 Lincolnshire 3,051 Merseyside 9,705 Norfolk 2,435 Northamptonshire 3,973
County Maintenance Expenditure per mile (all roads) £ Northumberland 2,585 North Yorkshire 4,325 Nottinghamshire 6,233 Oxfordshire 4,036 Shropshire 2,511 Somerset 3,078 Staffordshire 5,083 Suffolk 2,769 Surrey 6,433 Tyne & Wear 7,647 South Yorkshire 8,879 Warwickshire 5,774 West Midlands 13,703 West Sussex 5,155 West Yorkshire 9,064 Wiltshire 3,757 Based on: "Highway and Transportation 1981–82 Actuals": Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy—July 1983. Comparable figures are not available for Greater London.