§ Mr. SteinbergTo ask the Secretary of State for Transport if he will list the total number of rural bus service routes in 1980 and the total number in 1990 in the United Kingdom.
§ Mr. McLoughlinBetween 1982 (the earliest year for which statistics are available) and 1990–91, vehicle mileage in the English shire counties increased by 19 per cent. But no breakdown between rural and urban mileage is available within this total; nor is information available on numbers of routes.