HC Deb 17 March 1989 vol 149 cc372-3W
Mr. Cohen

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport if he will ask the railway inspectorate to examine whether the design of passenger carriages in new trains proposed for any of London's Underground lines provide for either (a) fewer seats or (b) more people to stand, than the current carriages; and if he will make a statement.

Mr. Portillo

The railway inspectorate examines as a matter of course all aspects of proposed designs for new underground rolling stock submitted to it by London Underground Ltd.

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