Index
Average working day's expenditure on land and buildings in the last five years by the Ministry of Defence: pounds 53,846
Average working day's expenditure by English Nature on purchasing National Nature
Reserves: pounds 315
Gypsy caravans in England: 12,777
Number of cars kept in Greater London: 2,380,000
Upper estimate for year 2011: 3,610,000
British Rail Freight vehicle fleet in 1979: 137,589
In 1993: 19,877
Percentage of films released in the UK in 1991 which were made in Hollywood: 89.5
English country parishes with no school: 4,740
Proportion of England that will be built-up by the middle of the 21st century on current
trends: 1/5
Nottinghamshire policing cost per offender found guilty or cautioned in court: pounds 2,839
Average weekly rent of a Welsh council
dwelling: pounds 29.81
Average rent in 1979, at 1992 prices: pounds 15.26
HM Queen's untaxed, unearned income from the Duchy of Lancaster per day
in 1990/91: pounds 8,493
Percentage of Japanese men in their twenties who see work as the main purpose of life: 30
Average months' duration of women's extramarital affairs: 21
Sources: Ministry of Defence ( pounds 70m); Dept of the Environment ( pounds 81,944); ibid; Dept of Transport; ibid; ibid; ibid; BFI; RM/Rural Development Council (under 10K pop); Jonathon Porritt/Dept of the Environment; RM/Home Office; Welsh Office; ibid; Duchy of Lancaster; USA Today/Japanese Prime Minister's Office; D Weiss, The Great Divide
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