§ Mr. Ronald Atkinsasked the Secretary of State for the Environment what evidence he has had presented to him in the course of the transport review that lower income groups prefer to travel by bus or coach rather than by rail, where the cost of rail and coach/bus travel is the same.
§ Dr. GilbertNone; as the cost of rail travel is rarely the same as the cost of coach/bus travel for comparable journeys, I am advised that information on people's preferences in such circumstances as my hon. Friend postulates could not readily be ascertained.