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NATIONAL EXPRESS ar National Holidays have be told that their pre-privatisatiā financial target is "a contrib tion to long run unavoidak costs of E7m on out-tui prices".
Announcing this in the cor mons, Transport Secretary Da) Howell said the achievement this target would involve a sigi ficant improvement in real tern over the contribution achievi by both concerns in 1981, whil had been itself a very substanti improvement on the 1980 resu He was confident that Nation Bus would make every effort achieve the 1982 target of a r duction in vehicle operatir costs per mile of 1.5 per cent.
He recalled in the Commo that Norman Fowler, his pr decessor, had set a performan target of a reduction of open ing costs per vehicle mile three per cent in real terms 1981. The company, he said, e timated that the actual reducti( was actually 3.8 per cent in re terms.
He said he was delighted pay tribute to that achievemer which had been of great bene to the travelling public, and hi now agreed with the compar that its performance aim fi 1982 should be further reducti( in operating costs per vehic mile of 1.5 per cent in real term: