§ Dr. SALTERasked the Home Secretary if he can state approximately the proportion of the total cost of the Police 932W services of the country that is incurred by reason of duties connected with motor traffic; and if he can say what sum such proportion represents?
§ Sir J. GILMOURThe cost of police employed in England and Wales on traffic point duty is in the neighbourhood of £1,000,000 a year, and of police employed on traffic patrol about £350,000 a year, the cost of their vehicles being met from the Road Fund. These two items account for about one-sixteenth of the total net cost of police.