The text on this page has been created from Hansard archive content, it may contain typographical errors.
Sir P. Rawlinson
asked the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will publish details of the sums paid in the year ended 31st March 1975 by way of fees to persons not full-time civil servants but following the professions of (a) chartered architect, (b) chartered and quantity surveyors, (c) medical consultants, (a) medical general practitioners, (e) dentists, (f) pharmacists, (g) civil engineers, (h) mechanical and electrical engineers, (i) estate agents and valuers, (j) solicitors, and (k) barristers, respectively.
Mr. Crosland
During the year ended 31st March 1975 the following sums were spent by the Property Services Agency on professional fees:
| £ | |
| Architects | 9·8 million |
| Quantity surveyors | 6·1 million |
| Civil engineers | 3·8 million |
| Mechanical and electrical engineers | 2·8 million |
| Estate agents and valuers | 60,000 |
| Unmeasured Water Supply | Measured Water Supply | |||||
| Authority | Average Bill 1976–77 | Percentage increase over 1975 | Average charge per 1,000 gallons | Percentage increase over 1975 | ||
| £p | p | |||||
| North West | … | … | 15·10 | 10·5 | 48·0 | 13·0 |
| Northumbrian | … | … | 15·74 | 22·0 | 46·0 | 21·0 |
| Severn Trent | … | … | 16·60 | 21·0 | 54·9 | 25·0 |
| Yorkshire | … | … | 16·60 | 17·0 | 50·8 | 24·0 |
| Anglian | … | … | 16·48 | 25·0 | 47·0 | 25·0 |
| Thames | … | … | 18·29 | 18·8 | 41·8 | 19·4 |
| Southern | … | … | 15·75 | 8·7 | 47·0 | 8·8 |
| Wessex | … | … | 16·92 | 25·3 | 50·1 | 26·5 |
| South West | … | … | 21·90 | 23·0 | 59·9 | 23·0 |
| WNWDA | … | … | 20·00 | 12·5 | 58·4 | 12·0 |