§ Mr. BrakeTo ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions if he will list the monthly number of staff fatalities in the railway industry for each of the last five years. [24439]
§ Ms Glenda JacksonDetails on the number of staff fatalities in the railway industry for the past five years are as follows:
§ Ms Glenda JacksonThis information is not available in the for requested. However, annual death and injury rates to passengers per billion passenger miles are published in the Chief Inspector of Railways Annual Report on Railway Safety, copies of which are available in the House of Commons Library. The relevant extract from the report for 1996–97 listing these rates over the past five years is as follows:
Train accidents are accidents to trains and rolling stock.
Movement accidents are accidents to people caused by the movement of railway vehicles, but excluding those involved in train accidents.
Non-movement accidents are accidents to people on railway premises which are not connected with the movement of railway vehicles.