HC Deb 14 March 1996 vol 273 c721W
Mr. Gordon Prentice

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to his answer of 29 January 1996,Official Report, column 482, relating to the use of the royal train, what definition is used of a public duty. [20471]

Mr. Watts

The definition is a duty undertaken to mark a public event or occasion.