§ Mr. Les Huckfieldasked the Secretary of State for Transport what have been the respective quantities of steel and non-metal sleepers used for the construction and repair of railway track in the United Kingdom in 1980.
§ Mr. Kenneth ClarkeThe British Railways Board, which operates and maintains the vast majority of railway track in the United Kingdom, informs me that it used 10,000 steel sleepers and 1,230,000 non-metal sleepers in 1980.