§ Mr. David Marshallasked the Secretary of State for Transport what has been the trend, from the first quarter of 1980 to the most recent practicable date, in road tender prices, road material prices and road output prices.
§ Mrs. ChalkerRoad tender prices have been volatile, rising and falling in successive years to their level in the first quarter of 1984, 1 per cent. below that in the first quarter 1980. The rate of increase in road material prices has fallen from 19 per cent. in 1980–81 to 7 per cent. in28W 1984–85. The index for road output prices, which combines the two above, has increased over the period by 19 per cent.