§ Mr. Rogersasked the Minister of War Transport the total receipts from rail passenger fares for the last complete year; and an estimate of the cost of collecting 1501W them, including booking office charges, ticket examiners and collectors, auditing, printing, etc.
§ Mr. BarnesThe receipts of the controlled railways from rail passenger fares in 1944 amounted to 145 millions. No estimate is available of the cost of collecting railway passenger fares and to form one would be a task of such complication that I should not feel justified in undertaking it.