HC Deb 10 November 1971 vol 825 cc157-8W
Mr. David Stoddart

asked the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will issue a general direction to the British Railways Board to intensify their efforts to obtain export orders for rolling stock and locomotives.

Mr. Peyton

No.

Mr. David Stoddart

asked the Secretary of State for the Environment what additional financial assistance he intends to make available to the British Railways Board to enable them to utilise to the full the present railway workshop facilities for building and maintaining, in advance of immediate requirements, rolling stock and locomotives that will be needed to handle future increases in the rail traffic.

Mr. Peyton

I have asked the board what scope there may be for action of this kind.