§ Mr. Barnettasked the President of the Board of Trade what action he intends
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The figures of accident casualty rates for United Kingdom airlines are set out in the table below under three headings, as requested ACCIDENTS TO AIRCRAFT OPERATED BY UNITED KINGDOM OPERATORS, WHICH INVOLVED FATAL INJURY TO PASSENGERS OR CREW Five year averages for the years 1962 to 1966 Accidents to aircraft, involving fatal injury Passengers killed per 100 million passenger miles flown per 100 thousand stage flights flown per 100 million capacity-ton-miles flown All operators Scheduled flights … 0.76 0.43 0.09 Chartered flights … 1.53 1.02 0.14 Total … 0.98 0.52 0.10 Private civil airlines Scheduled flights … 3.62 0.66 0.68 Chartered flights … 1.83 0.87 0.13 Total … 2.22 0.72 0.31 B.O.A.C. and B.E.A. Scheduled flights … 0.48 0.23 0.03 Chartered flights … 0.05 1.41 0.18 Total … 0.45 0.31 0.04 Note: (i) Inferences drawn from these figures about comparative levels of safety must be regarded with caution as accidents are too varied in nature and, from a statistical point of view, too few in number to provide a reliable basis for comparison between types of operation or between classes of operator. (ii) The best measure of the scale of risk to passengers is shown in the first column, while the best measure of risk to aircraft is shown in the second. The figures in the last column are not generally used as a measure of accident casualty rates. (iii) Statistics are not available for civil charter flights in isolation or for an analysis by reference to weight of freight. to take on the proposals which have now been made by the Textile Council, with particular reference to the renegotiating of global quotas.
§ Mr. JayOn 1st January, 1966, we imposed far-reaching restrictions on imports of cotton textiles for a period of five years. I see no prospect in present circumstances of the exporting countries, who acquiesced in what we had done with the greatest reluctance, now agreeing to further restrictions on their exports to this country.