Railway Accounting (Report)

HC Deb 22 March 1960 vol 620 cc29-30W

Mr. F. Noel-Baker

asked the Minister of Transport if he will state the names and qualifications of the expert committee which is now studying the possibility of separate accounting for the railway regions; and when the committee will report, and to whom.

Mr. Marples

This study is being conducted by the staff of the British Transport Commission. The Commission has

Location	Chief Lands Officer and Deputies	Supervising Lands Officers	Land Officers	Assistant Land Officers
Air Ministry	…	…	4	12	24	1
Works Areas:
1.	Grantham	…	…	—	—	1	2
2.	Aberdeen	…	…	—	—	1	2
3.	York	…	…	—	—	1	2
4.	Warrington	…	…	—	1	1	3
5.	Retford	…	…	—	—	1	1
6.	Exeter	…	…	—	—	—	4
7.	Newmarket	…	…	—	1	—	4
8.	Cambridge	…	…	—	1	1	2
9.	Cheltenham	…	…	—	1	—	3
10.	Northwood	…	…	—	—	—	4
11.	Abingdon	…	…	—	—	—	1
Overseas
Cyprus	…	…	—	—	—	1
Malaya	…	…	—	—	1	1
Aden and Bahrein	…	…	—	—	1	3
Malta	…	…	—	—	1	1
Germany	…	…	—	—	1	—
TOTALS	…	…	4	16	34	35

also arranged for a firm of chartered accountants with wide experience of railway accounting to consider this question and report to the Commission as soon as possible.