§ Mr. Lomasasked the Minister of Transport if she will show in table form the density of vehicles per road mile in the United Kingdom and as many other countries for which statistics are available.
§ Mr. John MorrisFollowing is the information:
Country Number of motor vehicles per mile of road ‡ United Kingdom* 57 Australia* 10 Belgium 34 Canada* 14 Denmark* 38 Finland*† 20 France 17 German Federal Republic 49 Greece 10 Irish Republic 6 Italy 71 Luxembourg† 27 Netherlands 50 New Zealand* 15 Norway 19 Poland† 9 Portugal 21 South Africa 8 Spain† 24 Sweden† 17 Switzerland 44 Turkey 6 United States 24 * Excluding agricultural tractors. † Excluding cycles with auxiliary engines. ‡These figures are affected by variations in the definition of a road. For example, if roads described in the published statistics as "unimproved" are excluded the figure for France becomes 25 and that for Sweden 31.