§ Mr. JenkinTo ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions how many740W London Underground stations have been closed for a part of the day in each of (a) the last 10 years because of staff shortage and (b) the past 12 months. [157479]
§ Mr. Hill[holding answer 9 April 2001]: This is an operational issue for London Underground (LUL) who have provided me with the following information on station closures owing to staff shortages of all time periods over 15 minutes in duration for the last six years and for year 2000–01 until 3 March 2001.
Year Number of closures 1995–96 123 1996–97 102 1997–98 106 1998–99 1— 1999–2000 114 2000–01 246 1 Unavailable
2000–01 Period Number of closures 1 5 2 10 3 11 4 7 5 20 6 38 7 20 8 17 9 18 10 56 11 20 12 24 Note:
UL operate a 13 period year. The end of period 12 represents 3 March 2001. Information for period 13 has not been processed yet.
Information on years prior to 1995–96 could be provided only at disproportionate cost.
§ Mr. JenkinTo ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions (1) how many accidents there have been on London Underground in each of(a) the last 10 years and (b) the past 12 months including in each instance the number of (i) fatalities, (ii) major injuries and (iii) minor injuries to passengers and staff; [157468]
(2) how many accidents have been caused on London Underground in each of (a) the last 10 years and (b) the past 12 months by train movements, including in each instance the number of (i) fatalities, (ii) major injuries and (ii) minor injuries to passengers and staff. [157469]
§ Mr. Hill[holding answer 9 April 2001]: London Underground (LUL) have provided the following information relating to all accidents. They inform me that to highlight those accidents which are the result of train movements could be done only at disproportionate cost.
London Underground publish information on passenger and employee fatalities and passenger major injuries in their Annual Reports each year. The following table summarises this information for the period requested, although LUL informs me that the figures may differ slightly from the Annual Reports as some revisions have been made to reflect information which was not available at the time of the Reports.
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Passenger fatality Employee fatality Passenger fatality major injury 1990–91 8 5 161 1991–92 7 2 44 1992–93 5 0 55 1993–94 5 0 50 1994–95 6 1 57 1995–96 4 0 86 1996–97 7 0 95 1997–98 4 0 108 1998–99 1 1 123 1999–2000 6 0 106 The information contained in the following tables covers the additional categories relating to Employee and Passenger injuries. As London Underground's current databases do not extend back prior to 1994, they inform me that to provide information before this date would incur excessive costs.
Employee major injury Employee minor injury Passenger minor injury 1994–95 30 2,063 2,047 1995–96 32 2,096 2,000 1996–97 23 1,985 2,344 1997–98 29 1,659 2,409 1998–99 25 1,653 2,468 1999–2000 33 1,602 2,503 2000–011 13 993 2,170 1 Figures for 2000–01 are only up to end of Quarter 3 (6 January 2001) and are provisional Finally the following table sets out the figures broken down monthly for year 2000.
Year 2000 Fatality Major injury Minor injury Passenger January 0 4 183 February 1 12 185 March 0 9 220 April 1 12 215 May 2 8 268 June 0 14 258 July 0 10 257 August 1 12 246 September 0 11 260 October 1 16 234 November 1 6 221 December 1 12 211 Employee January 0 3 117 February 0 4 99 March 0 3 125 April 0 0 104 May 0 3 105 June 0 6 132 July 0 2 105 August 0 0 130 September 0 0 121 October 0 2 100 November 0 0 90 December 0 0 106
§ Mr. JenkinTo ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions (1) how many742W serious train incidents there were in the London Underground in each of (a) the past 10 years and (b) the past 12 months; [157482]
(2) how many train derailments there have been on the London Underground in each of (a) the last 10 years and (b) the past 12 months. [157472]
§ Mr. Hill[holding answer 9 April 2001]: This is an operational issue for London Underground (LUL) who inform me that although they record incidents on the Underground system under a range of headings themselves they do not use the term "serious train incidents". The appropriate measure would be LUL's record of train derailments and train collisions.
Year Derailments on running line 1996–97 4 1997–98 1 1998–99 1 1999–2000 3 2000–01 4 London Underground have provided me with the following information on train derailments on their running line, for recent years and in the last 12 months:
2000–01 Derailments on running line April 0 May 1 June 0 July 0 August 1 September 1 October 0 November 0 December 1 January 0 February 0 March 0 Information on years prior to 1996–97 could be provided only at disproportionate cost.
LUL inform me that there have been no train collisions on the network over the past 10 years.