Index
Estimated supertanker loads of water emitted
by commercial aircraft in or near
the stratosphere each year: 153
Tonnes of climate-altering carbon dioxide released
in the generating of electricity to power
a personal computer for a working year: 0.8
To power an average household for a year: 9
Proportion of surgeons currently working in
English and Welsh hospitals who qualified
outside the European Community: 1 in 4
No-charge sight tests conducted in 1988-89:
14,390,000
In 1990-91: 4,840,000
Reported assaults on women using public transport
in 1990: 655
In 1991: 993
Prison inmates who have broken out
and remain at large since mid-1988: 671
Unemployment benefit in real terms for couple
with two children under 11 in 1976: pounds 90.82
In 1992: pounds 69.70
Confirmed cases of mad cow disease in 1991: 25,013
Total known mad cow disease cases to date
in Switzerland: 17
Likely cost of replacing each of the
Ministry of Defence's 1,701 tracked combat
reconnaissance vehicles: pounds 1,175,779
Cost per week of maintaining the aeroplanes
of the Queen's Flight: pounds 6,853,000
Proportion of Americans wearing
contact lenses: 1 in 10
Sources: RM/Earth Resources Research; Edwin Datschesski/Environment Council; ibid; Cynog Dafis MP/ Dept of Health Hans 211, 51; Dept of Health; ibid; Dept of Transport; ibid; Home Office; Dept of Social Security; ibid; Min of Agriculture, Fisheries & Food; ibid; RM/Jonathan Aitken MP/Min of Defence; RM/ Harry Cohen MP/Min of Defence; Euromonitor Consumer USA 1992
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