§ Mr. John H. Osbornasked the Secretary of State for Transport if he will tabulate in the Official Report the running cost as against fares received in the last current year for each of the passenger transport authorities in the United Kingdom, respectively, and in total, expressing this as a percentage and comparing the position with each of the previous five years.
§ Mr. Kenneth ClarkeI have taken my hon. Friend's question as referring to the passenger transport executives' own bus operations. For 1980–81 the operating costs and fares income of these operations were as follows:
Operating Costs £ million Fares income £ million Fares income as percentage of operating costs Greater Manchester 117 84 72 Merseyside 57 33 58 South Yorkshire* 42 15 36 Tyne and Wear* 37 17 46 West Midlands 99 72 73 West Yorkshire* 65 44 68 Strathclyde 47 31 66 464 296 64 * Estimates.
Comparable information for previous years is not readily available.
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