§ Mrs. DunwoodyTo ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions if he will list for each of the next five years the Government subsidy to be paid to(a) Railtrack and (b) each train operating company. [37919]
§ Ms Glenda JacksonRailtrack receives no subsidy direct from the Government. Subsidy to the railway is paid to train operating companies. The table provides details of payments which the Government plan to make to, and receive from, each train operating company for the five years 1998–99—2002–03, at February 1997 prices.
aircraft by the Civil Aviation Authority, indicating the airlines involved and the defects found in the last 12 months for which figures are available. [37921]
§ Ms Glenda JacksonI refer to my answer of 26 February 1998,Official Report, columns 325–26. Since then a ramp check has been carried out on an aircraft from each of the following foreign airlines: Biman, Ghana Airways, Azerbaijan Airlines and Uzbekistan Airlines.
In the 12 months to the end of March 1998 the CAA carried out 75 ramp checks on UK aircraft from the following operators:
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- Aeromega
- Air Hanson
- Alan Mann
- Bristows
- British Airways
- British Midland Airways
- Burman
- Cabair
- Castle Air
- Cheqair
- Coventry Heli Centre
- Easyjet
- Elite Helicopters
- Fast Helicopters
- Flightline
- Gill Aviation
- Grampian
- Hi-line
- Hecray
- Isle of Scilly Skybus
- Looporder
- Lynton
- Manx
- Monarch
- National Grid
- Newquay Air
- Oxford Air Services
- PLM Dollar
- Sabre
- Sloane Helis
- Solent Helicopters
- Southernair
- Sterling
- Veritair
- Virgin Atlantic
- Yorks Heli Centre.
Unlike the targeted ramp checks on foreign operators, ramp checks on UK operators are part of the normal oversight process and take place on a random basis. The defects found as a result of these ramp checks could be listed only at disproportionate cost.