§ Mr. Barry Jonesasked the Secretary of State for Wales if he will estimate the net saving to the Forestry Commission through the amalgamation of its Cardiff and Aberystwyth offices.
§ Mr. John Stradling ThomasThe Forestry Commission estimates that the savings will be in the region of £250,000 per annum.
§ Mr. Barry Jonesasked the Secretary of State for Wales how many acres of woodland in Wales have been sold by the Forestry Commission to the latest date for which figures are available.
1980 1981 1983 1984 (to 31.8.84)* Dysentery 42 46 48 58 54 Food poisoning 438 528 666 705 547 Typhus — — — — — Cholera — — 1 1 — Paratyphoid fever 5 2 2 3 — * 1984 figures are provisional. Information as to the origin of contraction is available only for paratyphoid fever and then only whether contracted within Great Britain as a whole or abroad. Of the 12 cases notified, between 1980 and 1984, four were presumed to have been contracted in Great Britain.