HC Deb 17 July 1995 vol 263 c881W
Ms Glenda Jackson

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport if he will list the number of incidents of traffic light failure in Greater London for each year since 1990 to date. [34909]

Mr. Norris

The numbers of all-out failures and confirmed faults affecting traffic signals in Greater London since 1990 are as follows:

All outs All confirmed faults (including all out failures)
1990 4,724 30,380
1991 4,380 27,749
1992 5,645 28,263
1993 5,721 31,609
1994 5,907 33,496
1995 (6 months) 2,569 16,434

There was a 21 per cent. increase in the number of signal installations on London's roads between January 1990 and June 1995.

Number and value of contracts let during 1993–94
Coopers and Lybrand Peat Marwick/ KPMG Ernst and Young Arthur Anderson Price Waterhouse Grant Thornton Stoy Hayward Robson Rhodes Parnell Kerr Forster Total number Total value £
Privatisation 1 3 4 169,427
Market testing 0 0
Management advice 1 1 2 906,809
Accounting 0 0
Audit 0 0
Consultancy 1 6 1 8 368,476
Other 2 2 27,000
Total 4 7 1 4 16 1,471,512