HC Deb 14 February 1975 vol 886 cc246-7W
Mr. Penhaligon

asked the Secretary of State for Social Services if she will list in the Official Report those parliamentary constituencies where, according to the 1971 census, less than 10 per cent. of all persons in employment use public transport as a means of transport to work.

Mr. Alec Jones

The following figures are the percentages of persons travelling to work by bus or train in those parliamentary constituencies in which the percentage is less than 10 per cent.

GREAT BRITAIN—BASED ON A 10 PER CENT. SAMPLE FROM THE 1971 CENSUS
England Bus and Train
Bodmin 9.1
Bridgwater 8.1
Bury St. Edmunds 7.9
North Cornwall 5.2
North Devon 6.3
West Devon 6.1
North Dorset 6.9
North Dorset 6.0
Eye 5.9
Gainsborough 8.1
Holland with Boston 5.7
Honiton 7.9
Horncastle 5.3
Huntingdonshire 89
Isle of Ely 8.2
Leominster 5.6
Ludlow 8.3
North West Norfolk 7.6
South Norfolk 9.0
South West Norfolk 6.0
Oswestry 8.1
Rutland and Stamford 8.6
St. Ives 8.6
Stratford-on-Avon 8.0
Taunton 9.9
Tiverton 8.6
Truro 7.7
Wells 8.4
Westbury 9.0
Westmorland 9.9
Yeovil 7.9
Scotland
Argyll 8.8
Galloway 6.2
Moray and Nairn 8.3
Orkney and Zetland 3.1
Ross and Cromarty 7.8
Wales
Anglesey 8.0
Caernarvon 9.6
Cardigan 7.9
Merioneth 7.5
Montgomery 3.5

The figures are derived from the 1971 Census of Population and do not include the small number of persons who were returned on their census forms as travelling to work by "public transport" or those few who were returned as travelling by other forms of public transport such as "ferry".