HC Deb 08 March 1972 vol 832 c348W
Mr. Donald Stewart

asked the Secretary of State for Scotland what proportion of total expenditure on motorways in each of the past 10 years can be attributed to Scotland.

Mr. Gordon Campbell

The following table shows total expenditure on new construction of Scottish trunk road motorways and the percentage of such expenditure in Great Britain which it represents. Expenditure on motorways for which I am not the highway authority—namely, local authority motorways—is additional to these figures.

Total £m. Percentage of comparable Great Britain expenditure
1961–62
1962–63 0.1 0.1
1963–64 0.4 0.8
1964–65 3.2 5.6
1965–66 7.7 12.1
1966–67 11.1 14.4
1967–68 9.8 12.9
1968–69 8.4 10.2
1969–70 13.3 10.0
1970–71 11.3 6.1