§ Mr. Nicholas Wintertonasked the Secretary of State for Wales what was the cost to public funds in each year since 1970, up to the latest year for which figures are available, of producing road signs in Welsh as well as in English.
§ Mr. Michael RobertsApproximate costs, at outturn prices for signs showing both Welsh and English legends erected on trunk roads, are given below:
1974–75 £140,000 1975–76 £60,000 1976–77 £515,000 1977–78 £360,000 1978–79 £360,000 1979–80 (provisional) £440,000 No bilingual signs were erected on trunk roads prior to 1974. Information about expenditure on signs on county 623W roads is not available. The greater part of this expenditure would have been incurred in erecting. English only signs.