§ Mrs. DunwoodyTo ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions if he will list(a) the number, (b) the length of contracts, (c) the details of the service involved and (d) the location of contracts entered into by his Department with Serco. [111784]
§ Mr. HillThe Department has no contracts with Serco.
I understand from Railtrack that the main contracts, past, present and anticipated, between Railtrack and Serco are as in the following table:
Title Scope End date National Weedspray Services Weed spray of the national rail network Ended Major Station Cleaning Contract Cleaning of 14 major stations April-June 2000 Rail Property Maintenance RT99 Maintenance of property in the north of England and in parts of Wales July 2000 On-Track Infrastructure Monitoring Services Operation of several instrumental train combinations running across the national network collecting data on the tail infrastructure April 2001 Infrastructure Maintenance Contract Maintenance of Railtrack"s infrastructure in the east Midlands Award imminent from 1 April 2000 for 5 years