§ Mr. Dudley Smithasked the Secretary of State for Transport if he will give estimates of the number of cars per hundred households and of the total number of households in each region of the United Kingdom in 1976.
§ Mr. HoramThe regional figures for the latest available period are given in the following table:
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Region Number of households Number of cars per 100households North 1,092 61 Yorkshire and Humberside 1,745 63 East Midlands 1,336 72 East Anglia 639 86 South-East 6,158 78 South-West 1,534 84 West Midlands 1,782 76 North-West 2,319 65 Scotland 1,760 60 Wales 968 70 Northern Ireland 454 72 These figures are not comparable with those given in previous years because of revisions to estimates of the number of households in each region.