HL Deb 01 February 1977 vol 379 c843WA
Lord AVEBURY

asked Her Majesty's Government:

Whether they will publish a table showing the forecasts made by the Transport and Road Research Laboratory of (a) the numbers of cars; (b) the numbers of all motor vehicles; and (c) thousands of vehicle kilometres in each of the years 1960, 1962, 1965, 1969, 1972 and 1974, giving in the case of the 1974 forecast the middle figures; and whether they will set out in parallel in the same table the actual figures for the years up to the present.

Baroness BIRK

The information is as follows:—

No. of Cars (million) No. of all motor Vehicles (million) Vehicle Km (thousand million)
Forecast for 1965
1960 forecast…
1962 forecast… 8.5 13.5
1965 forecast… 9.1 13.2 158
Actual… 8.9 12.9 163
Forecast for 1970
1960 forecast… 17
1962 forecast… 11.9 17.8
1965 forecast… 13.6 17.9 219
1969 forecast… 12.4 16.0 213
Actual… 11.5 15.0 207
Forecast for 1975
1960 forecast…
1962 forecast… 15.3 21.8
1965 forecast… 18.2 22.6 280
1969 forecast… 16.6 20.4 270
1972 forecast… 14.7 18.1 258
1974 forecast (central)… 14.1 17.6 257
Actual… 13.7 17.5 241