§ Mr. G. Campbellasked the Minister of Transport if he will take steps to prevent further damage to exports from Scotland resulting from delays in transit of consignments on British Railways.
§ Mr. Tom FraserI am sure that the Railways Board will be glad to investigate any specific complaint the hon. Member may have of delay to particular export consignments. I understand the Board has in fact made arrangements which it hopes will prevent a repetition of a specific complaint which the hon. Member recently brought to its notice. The Board informs me that during the 32 weeks ended 11th September, 1965, a total of 6,873 full wagon loads of export traffic were conveyed to the Scottish ports of Glasgow, Grangemouth and Leith by the railways special Export Express Service, all of which arrived at the ports in time for shipment. The Government for their part have set up an Economic Development Committee for the Movement of Exports to examine all possible ways of speeding the flow of export traffic.