§ Lord AVEBURYasked 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 BIRKThe 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