§ Sir T. Mooreasked the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will consider publishing the Scottish Roads Report separately from industry and employment in Scotland and for the period of the financial year, as is the case with roads in England and Wales, in order that detailed expenditure figures for Great Britain will be publicly available at approximately the same time.
§ Mr. MaclayAs I stated in reply to a Question by my hon. and gallant Friend the Member for Inverness (Mr. N. McLean) on the 9th May, I have decided that the Scottish Roads Report for 1959 should again be published together with the White Paper on Industry and Employment in Scotland, which I now expect to present next week.
This year the Roads Report will cover the period from the 1st January, 1959, to the 31st March, 1960, and in future it will relate to financial years. Full statistical information for the preceding financial year will not, however, be available for publication in June and I therefore propose to issue supplementary figures towards the end of each calendar year when the comparable statistics for England and Wales are published.