To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what representations he has received from Rutland district council regarding the British Railways (Luffenham) Level Crossing Order; what reply he has sent; and on how many occasions in the last five years he or his predecessors have (a) confirmed such orders and (b) withdrawn them, following a critical submission from the local authority covering the area in question.

I have received no representations to date from Rutland district council regarding the British Railways (Luffenham) Level Crossing Order. The British Railways Board circulated the draft order on 2 February and the period within which representations may he made ended on 2 April.A total of 751 statutory orders have been issued in the last five years authorising changes in the protection arrangements at level crossings. The precise number of orders that have been rejected is not readily available but it is not thought that there have been more than six such cases.