§ Mr. Mikardoasked the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will, by providing figures for 1972, bring up to date the statistics for the volume of parcels traffic handled in the public sector given in Table E of the National Board for Prices and Incomes Report No. 162.
§ Mr. PeytonThe volume of parcels handled in the public sector in 1972 was as follows:
Undertaking Packages (million) BRS Parcels Ltd … 74.5 National Carriers Ltd. … 95.0* British Rail Express Parcels Service … 63.5 Post Office Corporation … 186.0 419.0 * As before this is an estimate mainly based on tonnage. These figures are estimates of the number of packages carried by the public sector undertakings: they take no account of the weight, size, value, or nature of the consignments; nor of the distance carried.