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Mr. Penhaligon
asked the Secretary of State for Social Services if she will list in the Official Report those parliamentary constituencies where, according to the 1971 census, less than 10 per cent. of all persons in employment use public transport as a means of transport to work.
Mr. Alec Jones
The following figures are the percentages of persons travelling to work by bus or train in those parliamentary constituencies in which the percentage is less than 10 per cent.
| GREAT BRITAIN—BASED ON A 10 PER CENT. SAMPLE FROM THE 1971 CENSUS | |
| England | Bus and Train |
| Bodmin | 9·1 |
| Bridgwater | 8·1 |
| Bury St. Edmunds | 7·9 |
| North Cornwall | 5·2 |
| North Devon | 6·3 |
| West Devon | 6·1 |
| North Dorset | 6·9 |
| North Dorset | 6·0 |
| Eye | 5·9 |
| Gainsborough | 8·1 |
| Holland with Boston | 5·7 |
| Honiton | 7·9 |
| Horncastle | 5·3 |
| Huntingdonshire | 89 |
| Isle of Ely | 8·2 |
| Leominster | 5·6 |
| Ludlow | 8·3 |
| North West Norfolk | 7·6 |
| South Norfolk | 9·0 |
| South West Norfolk | 6·0 |
| Oswestry | 8·1 |
| Rutland and Stamford | 8·6 |
| St. Ives | 8·6 |
| Stratford-on-Avon | 8·0 |
| Taunton | 9·9 |
| Tiverton | 8·6 |
| Truro | 7·7 |
| Wells | 8·4 |
| Westbury | 9·0 |
| Westmorland | 9·9 |
| Yeovil | 7·9 |
| Scotland | |
| Argyll | 8·8 |
| Galloway | 6·2 |
| Moray and Nairn | 8·3 |
| Orkney and Zetland | 3·1 |
| Ross and Cromarty | 7·8 |
| Wales | |
| Anglesey | 8·0 |
| Caernarvon | 9·6 |
| Cardigan | 7·9 |
| Merioneth | 7·5 |
| Montgomery | 3·5 |