HC Deb 20 July 1978 vol 954 c353W
Mr. Fry

asked the Secretary of State for Transport, in view of the fact that the tax revenue to cost ratios of individual classes of road vehicles can be ascertained, if he will ensure that railway accounting methods are advanced to the level of road accounts by giving a general direction to the British Railways Board to abandon the use of the avoidable cost principle and to ascertain the actual costs of rail freight services.

Mr. William Rodgers

No, the problems are not the same.