HC Deb 26 January 1977 vol 924 c604W
37. Mr. Hodgson

asked the Secretary of State for Transport what the total cost of salting the motorways of the United Kingdom has been in each of the years ending 31st March 1974, 1975 and 1976.

Mr. Horam

An estimate at outturn prices of the cost of winter maintenance of motorways in the United Kingdom which includes salting and snow ploughing in each of the respective years is as follows:—1973–74, £0.910 million; 1974–75, £1.160 million; 1975–76, £1.42 million.