§ 103. Mr. Edwin Wainwrightasked the Minister of Transport if he will give the amounts of money spent on new construction and major improvements for motorways, trunk roads and principal 405W roads, including loans to highway authorities, for England and Wales for each of the past eight years.
§ Mr. MarshThe following is the information on Central Government expenditure by my Department, and by the Welsh Office from 1965–66, on these services.
£million 1961–62 68.9 1962–63 87.0 1963–64 108.4 1964–65 127.4 1965–66 124.6 1966–67 148.6 1967–68 203.8 1968–69 (provisional) 221.3 The figures prior to 1st April, 1967, are not directly comparable with subsequent figures because of the change which then took place in the classification of roads into "Principal" and "non-Principal" categories.