Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Transport – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 14 January 1991.
Mr Roger Freeman
, Kettering
12:00,
14 January 1991
In our judgment there is nothing inconsistent between asking InterCity to make a profit—to earn revenue in excess of operating costs; it is one of the few railway systems in the world to achieve that—and the provision of a quality service. Of course that is not possible for regional railways and is currently not possible for Network SouthEast. However, it is possible for InterCity.