§ 66. Mr. BeithTo ask the Secretary of State for Transport what assessment he has made of the record of accidents involving death or serious injury on the Al in Northumberland.
§ Mr. Peter BottomleyPersonal injury traffic accidents on Al trunk road in Northumberland are all reported by the police to the northern regional office. These statistics are also recorded nationally.
Assessments on individual sections of the Al are made wherever a problem area can be identified.
The current accident rate for all personal injury accidents on the Al in Northumberland, based on reports for the last three years, is 0.22 per million vehicle kilometres. This is less than the regional and national rates for non-built-up trunk roads.
164Wnumber of new services and lower fares on European routes. We are now preparing for the second stage of EC liberalisation, to be implemented by June 1990.
We have also been actively pressing for even more liberal bilateral agreements with other European states and have recently reached a liberal bilateral agreement with Ireland and have entered into new arrangements with Austria which remove barriers to market entry.