§ Mr. AdleyTo ask the Secretary of State for Transport if he will make it his policy to instruct BR to undertake full cost-benefit analyses on their investment proposals: and if he will make a statement.
§ Mr. PortilloThe circumstances in which cost-benefit appraisal is appropriate for the evaluation of rail investments were set out in the Government's observations on the third report of the Transport Committee, Session 1987–88 (House of Commons paper 420). British Rail is aware of them.