§ Mr. Moateasked the Secretary of State for Education and Science if, from the information available to her, she can estimate the total expenditure by the education service and by libraries on books and the approximate percentage that this represents of total book sales in the United Kingdom in the financial years 1973–74, 1974–75 and 1975–7.
§ Miss Margaret JacksonAlthough some returns are provisional and others incomplete, the following estimates of expenditure on books by local education authorities and public library authorities in the United Kingdom, and the national libraries and universities, can be made. Information about other libraries is not available.
units is however likely to be very small, since almost all the residential accommodation provided by educational institutions is furnished.