HC Deb 09 March 1956 vol 549 c234W
Mr. G. R. Strauss

asked the Minister of Transport and Civil Aviation to give details of how a reduction of £9 million capital expenditure on British Road Services is to be effected.

Mr. Watkinson

The original programme for capital expenditure in 1956 amounted to about £14,500,000. This total has been reduced by £9 million of which £8 million is accounted for by a reduction in the programme for new vehicles and £1 million by deferring the modernisation of depôts and workshops.

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