§ Mr. Cordleasked the Secretary of State for the Environment what was the estimated expenditure on their county surveyors' departments by each of the old local authorities or new administrative counties during the last five financial years; and what is the estimated cost of running those departments for the current financial years.
§ Mr. OakesExpenditure by local authorities is attributed to particular services, not to individual departments. The information requested is not, therefore, available.
§ Mr. Cordleasked the Secretary of State for the Environment what was the amount of expenditure upon construction works for which the county surveyors' departments of each of the old local authorities or new administrative counties were responsible in the last five financial years; and what is the estimated cost of such construction works for the current financial year.
§ Mr. OakesI regret that this information is not available because local authority expenditure is analysed by services rather than departments, but so far as county surveyors' departments' main responsibility, which is for highways, is concerned, annual returns of highways expenditure, including land, published by the Society of County Treasurers and
Public sector Private sector Total 12 months ended: 31st March 1970 … … … … 9,228 13,743 22,971 31st March 1971 … … … … 7,542 14,033 21,575 31st March 1972 … … … … 8,701 17,431 26,132 31st March 1973 … … … … 7,381 19,383 26,764 31st March 1974 … … … … 8,654 13,619 22,273 Statistics of the starts of buildings other than dwellings are not collected by my Department.