To ask the Secretary of State for Transport if he will list the local authorities which have consulted his Department about undertaking feasibility studies and planning light rapid transport or metro systems.

Apart from the passenger transport executives in Greater Manchester and South Yorkshire, whose light rail projects are already under way, passenger transport executives and local authorities have been in touch with the Department about light rapid transit projects in a number of areas including the West Midlands, Leeds, Avon, Cleveland, Chester, Croydon, Guildford, Leicester, Nottingham, South Hampshire, Southampton and Stoke-on-Trent.