asked the Secretary of State for the Environment what was the estimated expenditure on their county surveyors' departments by each of the old local authorities or new administrative counties during the last five financial years; and what is the estimated cost of running those departments for the current financial years.

Expenditure by local authorities is attributed to particular services, not to individual departments. The information requested is not, therefore, available.

asked the Secretary of State for the Environment what was the amount of expenditure upon construction works for which the county surveyors' departments of each of the old local authorities or new administrative counties were responsible in the last five financial years; and what is the estimated cost of such construction works for the current financial year.

I regret that this information is not available because local authority expenditure is analysed by services rather than departments, but so far as county surveyors' departments' main responsibility, which is for highways, is concerned, annual returns of highways expenditure, including land, published by the Society of County Treasurers and