§ Mr. Delwyn Williamsasked the Secretary of State for Wales what has been the cost to his Department of providing bilingual road signs in Wales in each year since their inception.
§ Mr. John Stradling ThomasApproximate costs, at outturn prices, to the Welsh Office for bilingual road signs on trunk roads are as follows:
£ 1974–75 140,000 1975–76 60,000 1976–77 515,000 1977–78 360,000 1978–79 360,000 1979–80 440,000 1980–81 570,000 1981–82 610,000 1982–83* 710,000 * Provisional. The greater part of this expenditure would have been incurred in erecting English only signs. No bilingual signs were erected on trunk roads prior to 1974.