§ Mr. Spearingasked the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will tabulate in the Official Report the cumulative amounts spent by each of the new town corporations, in South-East England 131W on land, roads, industrial development, and housing, respectively, until the year 1973, and those amounts in 1974, together with the number of jobs created in the same periods.
GROSS CAPITAL EXPENDITURE FROM DATE OF DESIGNATION TO 31ST MARCH 1974 £000 Land House building Industrial building Main roads Basildon … … 18,841 52,538 9,444 8,610 Bracknell … … 7,902 27,469 4,145 928 Harlow … … 1795 51,678 8,301 1,097 Milton Keynes … … 12,788 12,889 2,284 5,747 Stevenage … … 5,434 47,854 6,663 3,180 Commission … … 7,465* 57,302* 12,833* —+
GROSS CAPITAL EXPENDITURE 1ST APRIL 1974 TO 31ST MARCH 1975 £000 Land House building Industrial building Main roads Basildon … … 2,623 6,392 1 44 Bracknell … … 176 3,143 52 49 Harlow … … 693 3,111 40 87 Milton Keynes … … 4,039 12,995 853 1,564 Stevenage … … 968 3,404 0 210 Commission … … 21 1,300 25 —+
JOBS ARISING FROM DEVELOPMENT BY OR UNDER THE AEGIS OF THE CORPORATION OR COMMISSION Up to 31st March 1974 From 1st April 1974 to 31st March 1975 Basildon … … 40,781 Nil§ Bracknell … … 21,919 2,408 Harlow … … 33,350 Nil§ Milton Keynes … … 32,500 4,500 Stevenage … … 37,000 1,300 Commission … … 137,100‡ 5,600‡ * Net capital expenditure. † Not available. ‡ For Crawley, Hatfield and Hemel Hempstead, include in each case at least one major industrial employer outside the new town area. § There were in fact reductions in the total of jobs in these towns during 1974–75 of 1,281 and 50 respectively.