HC Deb 24 July 2002 vol 389 cc1276-7W
Mr. Chope

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport if he will place in the Library a list of the 96 major local road and public transport schemes approved under the transport 10-year plan. [71609]

Mr. Jamieson

[holding answer 19 July 2002]: The information requested has been placed in the Libraries of the House.

Mrs. May

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport if he will list the lines included in the target given in his 10-year plan for an 80 per cent. increase in patronage on intercity lines, at paragraph 6.22, page 49; and if he will publish the relevant patronage levels for each of the last three years. [71566]

Mr. Jamieson

[holding answer 19 July 2002]: The 80 per cent. increase in patronage on intercity lines is an expected outcome over the period of the 10-year plan. There are six operators who run high-speed services between major towns and cities. These are listed in the table, which shows passenger kilometres for these operators over the last three years. These figures are included in the Strategic Rail Authority's annual report.

Passenger Kilometres
Million
Long distance operator 1999–2000 2000–01 2001–02
First Great Western 2,387 2,387 2,428
Great North Eastern Railways 3,931 3,910 3,768
Midland Mainline 1,070 1,091 1,134
Virgin CrossCounty 2,374 2,205 2,423
Virgin West Coast 3,398 3,322 3,177
Anglia 726 666 774

Note:

The Anglia figure includes both local as well as intercity services

Source:

SRA Annual Report

Passenger kilometres on long-distance operators fell by 8 per cent. following the Hatfield accident, down from 13.2 billion km in 1999–2000 to 12.1 billion km in 2000–01. This has been followed by a rise of 7 per cent. to 12.9 billion km in 2001–02. These figures are included in the Strategic Rail Authority's National Rail Trends publication, the most recent of which was published on 6 June, a copy of which is in the House Library.

Mr. Don Foster

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport if he will place in the Library an updated copy of Table A3 from the 10-year transport plan(a) at outturn prices or (b) at today's prices. [72771]

Mr. Jamieson

A breakdown of revised 10-year plan spending will be published in the autumn as part of the first year report on the plan.