To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what is the latest information he has as to (a) how many people presently have cars registered in a company's name and (b) how many are women and how many are men; and what is the regional distribution of these figures.
[holding answer 2 March 1992]: The records kept at the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency show that, at 31 December 1990, there were 2,579,000 licensed cars in the PLG tax class registered in a company name.
| Table 1 | |||||
| London Transport investment and funding | |||||
| £ million (1990–91 prices) | |||||
| 1980 | 1981 | 1982 | 1983 | 11984–85 | |
| London Transport investment | |||||
| London Underground Limited | 141 | 150 | 126 | 161 | 164 |
| London Buses Limited | 90 | 99 | 73 | 89 | 60 |
| Other2 | — | — | — | — | 20 |
| Funding | |||||
| Grant | 209 | 222 | 194 | 241 | 147 |
| Internal resources | 13 | 21 | 1 | 5 | 98 |
| 1 15-month period. | |||||
| 2 Includes investment by the DLR, LT Trading, LT Property and LT Central Services. | |||||
The regional breakdown is as follows:
Number of licensed cars in PLG tax class registered in a company name
| |
Region
| Thousand
|
| Northern | 81 |
| Yorkshire and Humberside | 182 |
| East Midlands | 168 |
| East Anglia | 110 |
| South East | 1,012 |
| South Western | 174 |
| West Midland | 328 |
| North West | 280 |
| Scotland | 171 |
| Wales | 70 |
| Not known | 5 |
| Total Great Britain | 2,579 |
No information is available from this source about the sex of the driver.