British Rail Engineering

HC Deb 30 November 1987 vol 123 c423W

26. Mr. Gregory

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport if he will give the value of non-railway supply orders received by British Rail Engineering Ltd. for each year since 1980; and what has been the value of export rail orders for the same company for each year since 1980.

Mr. David Mitchell

BREL has provided the following figures in £ millions:

	Non-railway equipment orders	Export orders
1980	0.9	0.8
1981	0.4	3.3
1982	0.8	38.2
1983	0.5	20.7
1984	0.1	3.8
1985	0.9	9.5
1986	0.1	6.4

All figures are for calendar years and have been rounded to the nearest £100,000.

Mrs. Ray Michie

To ask the Scretary of State for Transport what plans he has to reinvest the money from the sale of British Rail Engineering Ltd. in British Rail.

Mr. David Mitchell

Proceeds of the sale will go directly to the British Railways Board, and will therefore reduce its external financing requirement.