§ Mr. Fryasked 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 the road accounts by directing the British Railways Board (a) to abandon the use of the avoidable cost principle and (b) to ascertain the actual costs of rail freight services.
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§ Mr. William RodgersI refer the hon. Member to the answer I gave him on 20th July.