asked the Minister of Transport if he will give for each county mentioned in Appendix B to Command Paper No. 7976 the proportion which has already been expended of the estimated cost of road improvements under the crofter counties and trunk roads schemes as shown in that appendix.

Of the estimated cost of the schemes in Inverness about 10 per cent. has been spent; in Orkney, 78 per cent.; in Ross and Cromarty, 17 per cent.; in Sutherland, 7 per cent. None of the listed schemes in Argyll has yet been commenced.