To ask the Secretary of State for Transport if he will set out in tabular format (a) the number of civil servants in his Department devoted to the planning, building and maintenance of roads, (b) the number of civil servants in his Department devoted to the development and maintenance of railways, (c) the number of civil servants in his Department devoted to the development of public transport other than railways and (d) the number of civil servants in his Department devoted to the promotion of cycling.

My Department has the following numbers of civil servants dealing with:

	Numberk
Roads	2,300
Railways	135
Other public transport	20
Cycling	140
1Part of the time.

The substantially larger number of roads' staff reflects the Department's direct responsibility for the national roads programme. The development and maintenance of other transport modes is the responsibility of other bodies, for example, British Rail and London Regional Transport.