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Mr. Kirkwood
To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will publish the value of the mileage rates for each engine capacity payable to local government representatives; and when the rates were originally set, together with the value these represent at current prices.
Mr. Stewart
The information is shown in pence per mile in the following table:
| Up to 999cc | l000cc-1199cc | Over 1199cc | |
| Rate at 6 February 1970 (last change to travel and subsistence regulations) | 4·7 | 5·3 | 5·9 |
| Rate at 6 February 1970 uprated by GDP deflator to 1 January 1993 | 32·6 | 40·2 | 44·7 |
| Current rates from 1 January 1993 | 22·0 | 23·9 | 26·6 |