§ Mr. Ridleyasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department what is the total annual cost of (a) the motorway police, (b) non-motorway traffic police and (c) traffic wardens; and what were the comparable figures five years ago.
§ Dr. SummerskillThe cost of salaries and related employers' expenses for traffic wardens in England and Wales is estimated to be £14,100,000 for the financial year 1975–76. The corresponding figure for 1970–71 was £5,363,000. The rest of the information is not avail-
172Wof extra resources made available to the stress areas connected with immigration; and how much these national grants were allocated to Bradford, Leicester, Southall, Ealing, Newham, Brent and Haringey;
(2) whether he will give, for the longest stated period of time, the annual amounts of extra resources granted to the London borough of Newham to assist it to overcome its housing, education, social welfare and other problems resulting from the large amount of immigration into the area of persons from the new Commonwealth.
§ Mr. JohnMost forms of central Government assistance do not have regard to the origins of those who live in the areas assisted. Grants under Section 11 of the Local Government Act 1966, referred to in my reply to my hon. Friend's Question on 29th June—[Vol. 914, c.88]—were as follows:
able centrally and could not be obtained without disproportionate cost.