HC Deb 09 July 1990 vol 176 cc82-3W
15. Mr. Harry Greenway

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport how much is being invested in London Underground over the next three years.

Mr. Freeman

London Underground Ltd. alone is planning to invest approximately £1.7 billion over the next three years. This is more than double in real terms the amount invested over the three years to 1989–90.

66. Mr. Spearing

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport if he will make a statement on the progress of his consideration of foreign investment in underground railways in central London.

Mr. Freeman

I am not aware of any significant foreign interest in underground railways in central London beyond the funding contributions to the Jubilee line extension and the Bank extension of the docklands light railway which have been agreed by Olympia and York.

63. Mr. Tony Banks

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport if he will make more resources available to London Underground for improved passenger security.

Mr. Freeman

The Government have given London Underground Ltd. £15 million to introduce a programme of passenger security measures as recommended in this Department's 1986 report on crime on the London underground. Implementation of this programme is currently under way. London Underground Ltd. will additionally be spending about £80 million over the next 10 years on extending the most successful of these measures throughout the Underground network. London Underground Ltd. funds the Underground division of the British Transport Police, the complement of which has been increased to 400 officers.

45. Mr. Summerson

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what is the level of investment in London Underground this year; and what the level was in 1984–85.

Mr. Freeman

Investment by London Underground Ltd. will be approaching £400 million in 1990–91. In the financial year 1984–85, when funding was determined by the GLC, the corresponding figure was about £117 million. This represents an increase of 148 per cent. in real terms.