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Ms Glenda Jackson
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport if he will list the number of incidents of traffic light failure in Greater London for each year since 1990 to date. [34909]
Mr. Norris
The numbers of all-out failures and confirmed faults affecting traffic signals in Greater London since 1990 are as follows:
| All outs | All confirmed faults (including all out failures) | |
| 1990 | 4,724 | 30,380 |
| 1991 | 4,380 | 27,749 |
| 1992 | 5,645 | 28,263 |
| 1993 | 5,721 | 31,609 |
| 1994 | 5,907 | 33,496 |
| 1995 (6 months) | 2,569 | 16,434 |
| Number and value of contracts let during 1993–94 | |||||||||||
| Coopers and Lybrand | Peat Marwick/ KPMG | Ernst and Young | Arthur Anderson | Price Waterhouse | Grant Thornton | Stoy Hayward | Robson Rhodes | Parnell Kerr Forster | Total number | Total value £ | |
| Privatisation | — | 1 | — | — | 3 | — | — | — | — | 4 | 169,427 |
| Market testing | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 0 | 0 |
| Management advice | 1 | — | — | — | 1 | — | — | — | — | 2 | 906,809 |
| Accounting | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 0 | 0 |
| Audit | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 0 | 0 |
| Consultancy | 1 | 6 | 1 | — | — | — | — | — | — | 8 | 368,476 |
| Other | 2 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 2 | 27,000 |
| Total | 4 | 7 | 1 | 4 | 16 | 1,471,512 | |||||