§ Mr. LivseyTo ask the Secretary of State for Transport what Government financial support has been allocated to British Rail provincial and its predecessors in actual terms and real terms in(a) 1975–76, (b) 1980–81, (c) 1985–86, (d) 1988–89, (e) 1989–90 and (f) 1990–91 projected.
§ Mr. FreemanFigures for Government support paid to the British Railways Board, including public service obligation grant under EC regulation 1191/69 and section 3 of the Railways Act 1974, and level crossings grant under EC regulation 1192/69, are given in the table. Final claims have not yet been agreed for the years 1988–89 and 1989–90.
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Cash £ million1 1990–91 prices £ million1 19752 307 1,052 19802 591 1,072 1985–86 838 1,113 1988–89 557 632 1989–90 511 544 1990–913 497 497 1 Rounded to the nearest £ million. 2 Before 1984–85 BR's financial year ran from 1 January to 31 December. 3 This is a planning figure based on a technical adjustment of the figures in Chapter 7 of The Government's Expenditure Plans 1990–91 to 1992–93 (Cm 1007). Before 1987–88 BR was not required to state the division of grant between sectors. In its annual report and accounts for 1988–89 BR estimated the PSO grant requirement for provincial to be £408 million (£461 million at 1990–91 prices). The Government's objectives for BR for the three years to 1992–93 endorsed BR's own target of reducing provincial's grant requirement to £367 million (1989–90 prices) by 1992–93, and requested BR to examine ways of reducing this by some £20 million.