§ Mr. Lawrenceasked the Secretary of State for the Environment what is (a) the purpose, and (b) the total cost of Ordnance Survey gridding of all post codes.
§ Mr. HoramI have been asked to reply.
The purpose of allocating Ordnance Survey grid reference to Post Office post codes by the Department of Transport is to provide a rapid and efficient means of ascribing the origins and destinations obtained from traffic surveys to any zone of the country whose boundaries are defined by grid references. There is also a demand for the results of this work from other Government Departments for their own purposes. The total cost of compiling the grid references is estimated as £160,000.