Air-conditioned Rolling Stock

HC Deb 06 March 1990 vol 168 cc542-3W

Mr. Leighton

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what percentage of existing rolling stock on British Rail and the London Underground have air conditioning; and what percentage of the new rolling stock will have it.

Mr. Portillo

The figures for BR are given in the table below.

	Percentage of fleet with air conditioning	1Percentage of planned future rolling stock with air conditioning
	1989–90	11993–94
InterCity	85	2100	100
Network SouthEast	2	15	50
Provincial	2	24	75
1Taken from British Rail's 1989 corporate plan. For Network SouthEast the figure includes all rolling stock that will have been ordered by March 1995.
2 Percentage of carriages in regular, all year round service. A very small number of vehicles used for charter will not be air conditioned.

London Underground has no air conditioned rolling stock, and none of the planned new rolling stock will have air conditioning.