§ Mr. Wigleyasked the Secretary of State for Wales what has been the annual cost of providing bilingual road signs on trunk roads in Wales since 1981.
§ Mr. Wyn RobertsThe cost of providing bilingual road signs is not distinguished from other highway expenditure, but a notional assessment is made as a proportion of the total cost of trunk road improvement schemes. Using the formula adopted since 1983, the assessed costs, at outturn prices, are as follows:
£ 1981–82 332,500 1982–83 385,000 1983–84 476,000 1984–85 325,500 1985–86 308,000 The greater part of this expenditure would have been incurred in erecting English-only signs.