§ Mr. Pawseyasked the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the answer of 4 April, Official Report, column 745, about Sunday services on British Rail, if he will publish for 1984 the number of occasions when Sunday train services differed from the published timetables and the principal causes of such differences.
§ Mr. David MitchellThe information requested by my hon. Friend is not readily available. The principal reasons why Sunday train services may differ from the published timetable is weekend engineering work.
§ Mr. Pawseyasked the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the answer of 16 April, Official Report, 531W columns 150–1, about the punctuality of train services, if he will give for the lines referred to, the average amount of recovery time included for the journeys in the timetables.
§ Mr. David MitchellThe times are as follows:
† recovery time (minutes) ‡Additional recovery time (minutes) Glasgow-Euston* ‖23 8 Birmingham-Euston* 8 8 Liverpool and Manchester-Euston* 8 8 † Normal recovery time added to all services. ‡Additional recovery time added to services travelling over the Rugby-Euston section between 10 am and 5 pm on Mondays to Fridays to allow for track maintenance undertaken between these hours.
‖This recovery time is made up as follows: Minutes Glasgow-Carlisle 7 Carlisle-Crewe 8 Rugby-Euston 8
§ Mr. Pawseyasked the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will ask the chairman of British Rail to collect information on the punctuality of trains at intermediate stations as well as at terminating stations.
§ Mr. David MitchellWe have endorsed British Rail's objective of improved punctuality. How it achieves those standards and how it monitors them are matters of management for the board.
§ Mr. Pawseyasked the Secretary of State for Transport, how many representations he has received about the punctuality of trains at intermediate stations on inter-city lines.
£ million New Road Construction Road Repairs/Maintenance 1983–84 1984–85 1983–84 1984–85 National road system (directly funded) 523 576 183 *218 Local authority roads 440 †491 738 ‡812 * Provisional outturn. †Provision. ‡Estimate. The outturn figures for local authorities in 1984–85 will not be available until later this year.