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Convictions per month by an average magistrate: 3
Lanes of motorway required to match the performance of a one-track main line railway equipped with high-tech signalling: 10
Covered freight cars owned by British Rail in 1979: 11,493
In 1993: 1,679
Population per railway goods wagon in the UK: 1,529
In France: 334
Percentage of Belgium's national goods transported by inland waterway: 18
Feet of railway line per Welsh resident: 6
Fraudulent-claims officers at DSS offices: 2,853
Hours DSS Income Support computer spent crashed in 1992: 883
Wives, husbands and betrothed admitted from the Indian sub-continent per day in 1992: 22
Taxpayers' bill for settling human rights infringement claim by a caned Brighton College pupil: pounds 20,000
Weekly benefit paid to an ex-service person with an amputated foot: pounds 35.60
Staff, administration and expenditure costs of the Citizen's Charter 1992-93: pounds 800,000
Percentage of women who think cooking dinner is the most romantic gift to give a man: 75
Sources: RM/Home Office (1991-92 England & Wales: 1.04m convictions, 29,686 magistrates); Amtrak; Dept of Transport; ibid; ibid; RM/Eurostat/Info 93; Eurostat; RM/Dept of Transport; DSS Benefits Agency; ibid; RM/Home Office; RM/Press Association; DSS; Duchy of Lancaster; D Weiss, The Great Divide (USA)
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