§ Mr. Pawseyasked the Secretary of State for Transport if, pursuant to the answer of 6 July, Official Report, column 14, he will specify the benefits which his Department derives from the quarterly information on punctuality by sector supplied by British Rail; and if he will publish the latest such information in the Official Report.
§ Mr. David MitchellThis information forms part of our general monitoring of the board's performance against the objectives that we set it last October. The latest available information on train punctuality is for the last quarter of 1986–87 and is as follows:
Trains arriving within 0 to 5 minutes of right time Per cent. Intercity 77 Network Southeast 91 Provincial 90
§ Mr. Pawseyasked the Secretary of State for Transport if, pursuant to the answer of 6 July, Official Report, column 14, he will publish in the Official Report the evidence upon which he based his statement that British Rail's punctuality had improved over the last six months; and if he will now take steps to monitor punctuality regionally.
§ Mr. David MitchellMy statement was based on train punctuality figures for all the passenger railway sectors covering the last six months of the 1986–87 financial year. They are the most recent figures for a six-month period and are as follows:
Trains arriving within 0–5 minutes of right time Sector 3rd quarter 1986–87 per cent. 4th quarter 1986–87 per cent. Intercity 75.0 77.0 Network SouthEast 89.7 91.0 Provincial 90.0 90.0 I do not propose to monitor punctuality regionally, but I have asked the board to send me information broken down by sub-sector.