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Industrial Action and Trade Unions
Mr. Byers: To ask the President of the Board of Trade if he will place in the Library copies of the views submitted in response to the Green Paper on industrial action and trade unions (Cm 3470). [17920]
Mr. John M. Taylor: I shall arrange for a list of respondents to the Green Paper to be placed in the Library of the House shortly after the end of the consultation period on 28 February. Since respondents were not asked to indicate whether they were willing for their comments to be published, it would not be appropriate to make the responses themselves available. However, some respondents may be willing to supply copies of their comments on request.
TRANSPORT
Rail Privatisation
Mr. Chidgey: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport if he will list for each franchise let since 13 January the details of payments to or from the franchisee in the same format as his answer of 13 January, Official Report, columns 119-20, indicating the support previously paid to British Rail for the franchises and the amounts of administered profit included within such support. [17191]
Mr. Watts:
The information is set out in the tables.
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| Cost of advisors | 1995-96 Budgeted passenger revenue | Budgeted support to BR for whole year | Including administered profit(4) | Support paid at franchising (year 1) | Year 2 | Year 3 | Year 4 | Year 5 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| InterCity West Coast | 1.96 | 251.80 | 92.53 | 19.12 | 76.800 | 68.362 | 56.091 | 53.675 | 52.254 |
| North London Lines | 1.12 | 64.30 | 54.87 | 4.87 | 48.600 | 35.501 | 29.627 | 26.415 | 23.040 |
| Thameslink | 1.02 | 82.10 | 16.43 | 5.34 | 2.500 | -6.748 | -16.204 | -22.466 | -23.224 |
| Central Trains(4) | 1.14 | 75.80 | 198.10 | 7.64 | 187.549 | 173.365 | 153.681 | 145.794 | 140.922 |
| North West Regional Railways(4) | 1.42 | 54.30 | 191.90 | 6.77 | 184.900 | 168.900 | 153.411 | 140.815 | 134.828 |
| Regional Railways North East(4) | 1.40 | 76.30 | 223.20 | 7.80 | 224.539 | 197.054 | 175.791 | 164.311 | 156.327 |
| ScotRail(4) | 1.31 | 117.70 | 292.30 | 11.17 | 280.100 | 264.841 | 250.539 | 234.911 | 220.351 |
| Total | 9.37 | 722.30 | 1,069.33 | 62.71 | 1,004.99 | 901.28 | 802.94 | 743.46 | 704.50 |
| Savings on BR support | 64.34 | 168.06 | 266.39 | 325.88 | 364.83 | ||||
| Cumulative savings | 64.34 | 232.40 | 498.79 | 824.67 | 1,189.50 |
Notes:
(4) The BR support figures for these franchises have been restated on a comparable basis to the franchise agreement and include budgeted payments from the passenger transport executives.
(5) Not covered by the franchise.
The year 1 franchise payment is the amount to be paid for 1997-98. Any amounts to be paid in 1996-97 have been excluded from this table.
It is expected that these franchises will commence between 2 March and 1 April 1997.
Payments to the franchising director appear as negative amounts.
All payments are real amounts.
Advisor costs are correct to January 1997.
This table makes no assumption about the potential for cost savings if the franchisees had remained in BR ownership.
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Mr. Alan Howarth:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport if he will list the contracts awarded by his Department to (a) EDS, (b) Andersens, (c) BMI, (d) Capita and (e) Sema since 1992 and the broad function to be carried out by the contractor and the value of the contract in each case. [17607]
Mr. Bowis:
The information requested is set out in the table. The value of individual contracts has not been revealed on the grounds that this information is commercially confidential.
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Freight Facilities Grants
Mr. Hall: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what factors underlie the overestimate in the budget for freight facilities grants for the years 1994-95 and 1995-96. [16526]
Mr. Watts: The 1994-95 freight grants budget was £13.347 million. This was notionally split into £3.347 million freight facilities grants and £10 million for the new track access grants. Spend on FFG at year end was £2,803 million. The shortfall was caused by two large claims not being submitted until the following year.
The 1995-96 freight grants budget was £14,415 million, notionally split into £3.415 million for FFG and £11 million for TAG. FFG spend was £4.007 million.
The provision made for TAG in these years was based on independent consultancy assessment of rail freight traffic likely to face difficulty in meeting newly introduced Railtrack track access charges. The first TAG awards were made during 1996 and payments are now being made.
Mr. Jamieson:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport if he will publish the marine accidents investigation branch report into the sinking of the fishing vessel Pescado; and if he will make a statement. [17938]
Mr. Bowis:
The Secretary of State has not yet received the report of the marine accidents investigation branch inspector's inquiry into the sinking of the fishing vessel Pescado. Normally, such a report would be submitted within one year of the incident. The delay in this case was due to the criminal prosecution of the operator of
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the Pescado and subsequent appeals. Now that criminal proceedings are at an end, the MAIB will complete the process prior to publication of the report, which is required by the Merchant Shipping (Accident Reporting and Investigation) Regulations 1994 and will submit the report to the Secretary of State for him to consider in due course. In line with the requirements of these regulations, the Secretary of State normally publishes reports into incidents shortly after they have been received.
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