§ Mr. EvennettTo ask the Secretary of State for Transport what arrangements have been made to fund the London dial-a-ride service.
§ Mr. FreemanI am pleased to announce that the grant to London dial-a-ride services for 1992–93 will be £10.5 million. It has been most encouraging to see the rapid expansion of the scheme in recent years, and this announcement will allow London Transport to improve the services still further in 1992–93: increasing the number of dial-a-ride trips from some 740,000 in the present year to more than 800,000 next year. It will also enable the completion of the planned regionalisation of the service.