LORD SALTOUNasked Her Majesty's Government:
How much has been paid in each completed year for the past five years by British Railways to customers, either directly or through any insurance effected by British Railways, in compensation, for goods which have been lost in transit.
§ THE PARLIAMENTARY SECRETARY, MINISTRY OF TRANSPORT (LORD CHESHAM)I am informed by the British Railways Board that the amounts paid in compensation for goods lost, stolen or pilfered while in transit on the railways in the last five years were as follows:
£ 1958 837,903 1959 777,140 1960 923,421 1961 1,288,905 1962 1,427,912 Claims were paid direct and not through any insurance.