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Mr. Fearn
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what percentage of gross national product is accounted for by public investment in railways.
Mr. Freeman
In 1990–91 capital investment by British Rail (£834 million) and by London Underground (£442 million) totalled £1,276 million. This represented some 0·23 per cent. of gross national product.