HC Deb 10 December 1974 vol 883 cc143-4W
Mr. Steen

asked the Secretary of State for the Environment how much derelict land is in the ownership of British Railways.

lish the figures for expenditure, in actual terms and in real terms related to 1969 prices, on road construction and road maintenance by central Government and by local authorities for each of the years 1969–70 to 1973–74 and estimates of the relevant figures for the current year.

Mr. Carmichael

The figures for England at actual prices and at November 1972 prices are as follows:

Mr. Carmichael

This information is not readily available. My Department hopes to publish next spring the results of local authorities' 1974 Survey of Derelict and Despoiled Land in England, which will include figures for derelict railway land, not all of which is now owned by the British Railways Board.