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Table 4
|£ million
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West Midlands |<1>93.579
Leeds/West Yorkshire PTA |93.628
Bournemouth and Poole |<2>0.5
Brighton |0.5
Exeter |0.4
Oxford |0.8
Shrewsbury |0.6
Staines |0.3
Swindon |0.6
Winchester |0.6
Hull |0.1
Canterbury |0.05
Ipswich |0.05
<1> The figures for the West Midlands and
Leeds packages include existing commitments
to major schemes in the package area.
<2> Figures for shire town packages are in
addition to the normal allocations for the
relevant shires, as shown in Table 2.
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Table 5
Local authority capital expenditure on public transport
Metropolitan Districts and Passenger Transport Authorities
Scheme |Approved expenditure £ million
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Greater Manchester
Bury
bus priority |0.050
Manchester
Victoria Arena-transport aspects |0.750
Salford
bus priority |0.075
Stockport
bus priority |0.100
Trafford
bus priority |0.150
PTA
new signalling centre |1.000
other works |3.400
Merseyside
Knowsley
bus priority |0.330
Wirral
bus priority |0.040
PTA
New signalling centre |1.800
City Challenge-related work |2.500
other works |2.537
South Yorkshire
Doncaster
bus priority |0.070
PTA
South Yorkshire Supertram |54.712
other works |2.500
Tyne and Wear
Gateshead
bus priority |0.075
Newcastle-upon-Tyne
bus priority |0.003
PTA
general works |2.539
West Midlands
package<1>
West Yorkshire
Leeds
package<1>
PTA
West Yorks electrification |11.810
Class 308 refurbishment |2.030
other works |2.500
County councils
Avon
bus priority |0.230
Cleveland
bus priority |0.825
Cornwall
minor projects |0.085
Derbyshire
Ivanhoe rail re-opening |0.110
Devon
bus priority |0.008
package<1>
Dorset
package<1>
East Sussex
package<1>
Hampshire
bus priority |0.080
package<1>
Humberside
package<1>
Kent
noise measures |0.600
bus priority |0.300
package<1>
Lancashire
Blackpool Tramway re-cabling |1.460
bus priority |0.420
Leicestershire
Ivanhoe rail re-opening |2.684
Nottinghamshire
Robin Hood rail re-opening<2> |6.500
bus priority |0.225
Oxfordshire
bus priority |0.085
minor projects |0.024
package<1>
Shropshire
bus priority |0.100
package<1>
Suffolk
bus priority |0.850
package<1>
Surrey
package<1>
Wiltshire
package<1>
<1> See table 4.
<2> Provisional.
Marchioness
Mr. Spearing : To ask the Secretary of State for Transport if he has anything to add to the oral ministerial statement of 9 July 1992, Official Report, column 699, that there was no case for an inquiry into the Marchioness disaster since it was clear that all the facts had been established.
Lorries (Loads)
Mr. Dover : To ask the Secretary of State for Transport if he will introduce a requirement for lorries carrying minerals, stone, sand, grit and excavated materials on public roads to have such loads securely sheeted.
Mr. Key : The safety of loads on vehicles used on the roads is controlled by the Road Vehicles (Construction and Use) Regulations 1986. Regulation 100(2) requires that any load carried by a vehicle be secured, if necessary, by additional restraints so that it is not likely to cause danger or nuisance by moving, falling or blowing off the vehicle. This would cover the sheeting of loads.
In addition, regulations have recently been introduced under the Environmental Protection Act 1990 specifically to require lorries working in quarries to sheet their loads to prevent dust. While these regulations do not apply on a public road, vehicles will need to be sheeted before entering a quarry and to remain sheeted after loading as far as the exit from the site. Drivers are unlikely to deliberately remove the sheeting once on the road.
Road Safety Report
Mr. Day : To ask the Secretary of State for Transport when the next road safety report will be published.
Mr. Key : We plan to issue a new road safety report in about a year's time.
Advertising
Mr. Matthew Taylor : To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what the cost of advertising by his Department has been for each year since 1979 and for each of the last 12 months.
Mr. Norris : The cost of advertising for publicity campaigns by my Department for each year since 1979 is as follows :
|£'000s
-------------------------
1979-80 |5,840
1980-81 |5,704
1981-82 |5,488
1982-83 |4,648
1983-84 |6,499
1984-85 |5,279
1985-86 |5,788
1986-87 |5,819
1987-88 |5,510
1988-89 |5,709
1989-90 |6,434
1990-91 |8,062
1991-92 |9,522
1992-93 |9,831
<1>1993-94 |9,555
<1> estimated
Cost of advertising for each of last 12 months cannot be readily calculated since advertising campaigns are planned, researched and executed over a period of months with expenditure being incurred over a similar period. Therefore only the total annual cost of campaigns has been given.
Trunk Roads
Mr. Lidington : To ask the Secretary of State for Transport when he expects to be able to announce details of his Department's expenditure on trunk roads for 1994-95.
Mr. Key : I expect to make an announcement about my plans for national roads early in the new year.
Klondyker Ships
Ms Walley : To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what proposals he has to ensure the safety of Klondyker ships in United Kingdom territorial waters but outside the Lerwick harbour boundary ; and if he will make a statement.
Mr. Norris : The primary responsibility for ensuring the safety of any ship rests with the flag state.
As the Klondykers are engaging in a commercial activity they require a licence, in this case from the Secretary of State for Scotland. Section 27 of Merchant Shipping Act 1979 allows the inspection of any such foreign ship in United Kingdom territorial waters. My right hon. Friend has implemented an intensive programme of inspections of Klondyker n United Kingdom territorial limits. The Government will take appropriate action where there is a threat to human life or to the environment.
Government Car Service
Mr. Alan Williams : To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what was the annual cost to the Department of the car service for Ministers in 1990-91 ; and how many vehicles were involved.
Mr. MacGregor : The annual cost to the Department of the car service for Ministers in 1990-91 was £186,000. Five vehicles were involved. These charges did not cover the full cost of the car service and rates have since been raised to reflect this.
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Air Safety
Mr. Redmond : To ask the Secretary of State for Transport if he will list the titles, names of contractors and dates of all external research contracts on air safety commissioned by his Department since 1985.
Mr. Norris : Following an examination of the Department's records I can inform the hon. Member that the only external safety-related research directly commissioned by the Department are the following : 1. Impact Modelling Programme commissioned with the University of Cranfield's Impact Centre in 1991, and;
2. Explosion/Decompression Signature Identification Research Programme, commissioned with the University of Southampton in 1993. These are both in support of the Department's air accident investigation branch.
The responsibility for the safety regulation of civil aviation rests with the Civil Aviation Authority. As a consequence research aimed at improving safety standards is commissioned by the Authority. Occasionally the Department has contributed funds for specific projects managed by the CAA.
Mr. Redmond : To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what advice is given to civil pilots concerning the actions to be taken to maximise safety when entering an area known to be subject to directional flow control for military low flying.
Mr. Norris : In the interest of mutual flight safety civilian pilots have been given advice and information on military low flying operations and the directional flow control for military low flying in the following recent publications and circulars :
1. June 1993--Information Circular AIC 89/1993.
2. August 1993--The United Kingdom Aeronautical Information Publication (the United Kingdom Air Pilot) section RAC 5-0-1.1. 3. August 1993--The Civil Aviation Authority's General Aviation Safety Information Leaflet.
I have made arrangements with the Civil Aviation Authority for the hon. Member to receive copies of the documents mentioned.
MV Braer
Mr. McFall : To ask the Secretary of State for Transport when the report of the Donaldson inquiry into the Braer incident at Orkney will be published.
Mr. Norris : I refer the hon. Member to my reply to the hon. Member for Orkney and Shetland (Mr. Wallace) on 24 November, column 64.
Thameslink
Mr. Chris Smith : To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what provision has been made in the Government's public spending plans for 1994- 95, 1995-96 and 1996-97 for expenditure on improvements to Thameslink including those that British Rail and London Underground have advised will be required for the King's Cross-St. Pancras interchange and the Victoria and Piccadilly lines to be able to cope with commuters using the channel tunnel rail link. Mr. Norris : No provision has been made as yet. We are giving careful consideration to the 29 October report from Union Railways and to the comments which we have received from London Transport.
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It is too early to say what provision might be required.Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency
Ms Walley : To ask the Secretary of State for Transport if he will call off DVLA's review into its local offices until the trail of automated direct registration has been completed ; and how the DVLA's review can come to any conclusions before the direct registration trail has been completed.
Mr. Key : No. The review will provide the agency with a range of options for the future. Estimates of the effect of automated first registration on local offices have been built into the business case for the project and the consultants carrying out the review will take these into account in framing their proposals.
Ms Walley : To ask the Secretary of State for Transport (1) how many roadside checks Touche Ross consultants attended while carrying out the review for DVLA on the work of inquiry officers in London ; (2) on how many occasions Touche Ross consultants accompanied inquiry officers on duty whilst compiling its report on the work of DVLA inquiry officers in London ;
(3) what were the costs of the recent review of inquiry officers' work in DVLA enforcement offices in Sidcup and Great Marlborough street, London.
Mr. Key : Touche Ross has not carried out any investigation into the work of these officers. It has been advising the agency on its overall market testing strategy for 1993-94, of which the LEO inquiry officers are only one element.
Ms Walley : To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what was the cost of new DVLA stationery bearing the charter mark ; and whether DVLA has scrapped all existing non-charter mark stationery.
Mr. Key : There is no additional cost. The charter mark logo is being incorporated into new stationery as it is reprinted in the normal course of business with old stocks being used up first.
Ms Walley : To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what was the cost of producing the DVLA staff magazine "Licence" for the year 1992-93 and for the current financial year to date.
Mr. Key : The cost of producing "Licence" for 1992-93 was £40,000. The cost so far for the current financial year is £25,000.
Ms Walley : To ask the Secretary of State for Transport (1) what were the total number and value of returned cheques passed to the DVLA staff magazine Licence for the financial year 1992-93 and for the current financial year to date ;
(2) what were the total number and value of returned cheques passed to DVLA for the financial year 1992-93 and for the current financial year to date.
Mr. Key : Since April 1992 Post Office Counters Ltd. has been responsible for recover, but not prosecution, action on cheques accepted by them in payment for vehicle excise licences. The numbers and value are :
|April 1992 to March|April 1993 to
|1993 |November 1993
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Number |132,000 |81,000
Value |£13 million |£9 million
Ms Walley : To ask the Secretary of State for Transport if Touche Ross consultants have carried out a review of inquiry officers' work in the DVLA : and whether consultants visited the enforcement offices concerned.
Mr. Key : No such review has taken place.
Ms Walley : To ask the Secretary of State for Transport if staff employed by DVLA have been issued with instructions not to answer questions from National Audit Office staff carrying out a study into vehicle excise duty collection-enforcement, unless a manager is present.
Mr. Key : The guidance notes issued to DVLA staff are designed to help the NAO to carry out their work as efficiently as possible. To avoid any misunderstandings an account of all NAO interviews will be kept by a designated staff member. All staff interviewed are asked to give honest, factual and considered answers. This arrangement is in accordance with standard procedures and was agreed with the NAO team involved in this study.
Vehicle Excise Duty
Ms Walley : To ask the Secretary of State for Transport (1) if he will list the amount of unpaid vehicle excise duty in the United Kingdom for each year from 1987-88 ;
(2) if he will estimate for the financial year 1992-93 the amount of unpaid vehicle excise duty in the United Kingdom.
Mr. Key : The figures for Great Britain with the revenue recovered from fines and penalties are as follows :
L
£ million
|Unpaid VED |Revenue from fines
|and penalties
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1987-88 |95 |23.6
1988-89 |100 |25.7
1989-90 |105 |26
1990-91 |105 |27.6
1991-92 |115 |34.4
1992-93 |130 |37.5
In addition, in 1992-93 an extra £14 million in revenue was raised through evaders relicensing vehicles as a direct result of enforcement action. Corresponding figures are not available for earlier years.
Vehicle Excise Duty
Ms. Walley : To ask the Secretary of State for Transport if he will list by vehicle registration office, the number, grades and salary costs of staff employed on vehicle excise duty enforcement and the total amount of revenue collected by those staff in 1992-93.
Mr. Key : The information requested is as follows :
Staff In Posts and Salaries 1992-93
(£000s)
VRO by Region |Executive staff|Clerical staff |Salary costs
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Scottish
Aberdeen |- |4 |40
Carlisle |1 |4 |53
Dundee |- |4 |33
Edinburgh |1 |11 |140
Glasgow |2 |25 |262
Inverness |- |3 |23
Middlesborough |2 |12 |104
Newcastle |3 |18 |197
|---
Total |852
North England and North Wales
Bangor |2 |7 |86
Chester |1 |8 |91
Huddersfield |1 |7 |93
Hull |2 |7 |95
Leeds |4 |20 |234
Liverpool |3 |21 |252
Manchester |4 |21 |278
Preston |2 |14 |135
Sheffield |2 |14 |155
|---
Total |1,419
Midlands
Birmingham |5 |24 |326
Coventry |1 |12 |120
Dudley |1 |9 |99
Leicester |1 |13 |114
Lincoln |2 |10 |130
Northampton |1 |11 |148
Nottingham |1 |15 |152
Peterborough |1 |9 |106
Shrewsbury |- |5 |37
Stoke |1 |8 |85
|---
Total |1,317
Southwest England and South Wales
Bristol |4 |23 |270
Cardiff |4 |20 |205
Exeter |4 |17 |179
Gloucester |2 |10 |130
Haverfordwest |1 |3 |17
Swansea |2 |9 |75
Taunton |2 |7 |91
Truro |2 |5 |100
Worcester |2 |8 |110
|---
Total |1,177
London and Eastern
Chelmsford |5 |24 |310
Ipswich |2 |9 |115
Luton |6 |30 |397
Norwich |2 |10 |101
|---
Total |923
Southern
Bournemouth |3 |12 |163
Brighton |4 |24 |274
Guildford |3 |14 |179
Maidstone |4 |20 |288
Oxford |1 |11 |105
Portsmouth |3 |15 |177
Reading |2 |16 |201
Swindon |1 |7 |76
|---
Total |1,463
London Enforcement Office |37 |207 |3,391
The total salary costs for 1992-93 was £10.5 million.
The revenue recovered for 1992-93 was as follows :
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|£ million
--------------------------------------------------
Out of court settlements paid |10.5
Prosecution |27
|---
Total |37.5
Ms Walley : To ask the Secretary of State for Transport if he will list for each no further steps code the number of vehicle excise duty offence reports written off for the financial year 1992-93.
Mr. Key : VED offence reports are written off as "no further steps" when enforcement action has had to be discontinued for a specified reason. The figures for 1992-93 were :
|Number
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
NFS 1 (unable to trace the offender or prove liability
for the offence) |408,000
NFS 2 (time expired for court action) |1,200
NFS 3 (insufficient staff resource) |1,200
Ms Walley : To ask the Secretary of State for Transport how many vehicle excise duty offence reports (a) were settled out of court or (b) resulted in a prosecution and fines, in 1992-93 and in the current financial year.
Mr. Key : The number of VED enforcement cases brought to a successful conclusion in 1992-93 and between April and November 1993 were :
|1992-93 April-March|1993-94
|April-November
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By out of court settlement |242,000 |157,000
By prosecution |193,000 |140,000
In addition, in 1992-93 180,000 motorists were induced to take out a licence as a direct result of enforcement action. To November this year the figure stands at 137,000.
Ms Walley : To ask the Secretary of State for Transport (1) how many vehicle excise offences reports have been generated so far this financial year ;
(2) how many vehicle excise offences reports were received by DVLA in 1992- 93.
Mr. Key : The number of vehicles reported to DVLA for alleged VED offences in 1992-93 was 1.8 million and 1.2 million for this financial year to November.
Child Road Deaths
Mr. Redmond : To ask the Secretary of State for Transport if he will list by year since 1979 the number of children below 16 years of age killed as a result of road traffic accidents (a) between 7 am and 10 am and (b) between 2 pm and 6 pm when clocks were set at (i) GMT and (ii) BST.
Mr. Key : The information requested is shown in the table. The data indicate that :
(a) there are more child road deaths in the summer than in the winter and that especially in the summer many more deaths occur in the afternoon, when children are out and about more ; and (b) very significant progress has been made over this period in reducing child road casualties but more needs to be done.
Year |(7-10 am)|(2-6 pm) |(7-10 am)|(2-6 pm)
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1979 |26 |101 |36 |234
1980 |28 |96 |34 |193
1981 |25 |105 |56 |197
1982 |28 |89 |34 |170
1983 |24 |114 |40 |203
1984 |23 |92 |33 |194
1985 |26 |91 |22 |166
1986 |30 |87 |33 |144
1987 |20 |66 |43 |154
1988 |25 |82 |31 |142
1989 |19 |68 |32 |153
1990 |18 |54 |29 |139
1991 |11 |66 |23 |135
1992 |16 |60 |13 |86
|--- |--- |--- |---
Total |319 |1,171 |459 |2,310
<1>Clocks are set at BST for approximately seven months of
the year and at GMT for approximately five months.
Catalytic Converters
Mr. Robert Ainsworth : To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what research has been undertaken to evaluate the performance of catalytic converters in a typical urban driving situation in Britain ; and whether the reductions in emissions have been quantified.
Mr. Key : The Department has a number of research programmes on vehicles emissions which include analysis of catalyst cars. Recent unpublished work at the Warren Spring Laboratory, has compared the emission performance of catalyst-equipped cars against non-catalyst cars, for an equal mix of hot start and normal ambient cold start operation, over actual urban road driving and over dynamometer driving cycles that simulate typical urban driving. The results show, on average, that a catalyst equipped car reduces carbon monoxide, hydrocarbons and oxides of nitrogen by 76 per cent., 81 per cent., and 77 per cent. respectively over an equivalent non-catalyst car over a typical journey length of 4 km. Similar research carried out under the EU Drive programme, but under hot starting conditions only, shows reductions of 77 per cent., 90 per cent. and 85 per cent. respectively for the same pollutants.
Heavy Vehicles
Dr. Wright : To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what estimate has been made of the volume of heavy goods vehicle traffic that will transfer from the M6 to the proposed Birmingham northern relief road ; and what percentage this is of through and overall HGV traffic.
Mr. Key : The BNRR concessionaire, Midland Expressway Ltd., currently estimates that by the design year of 2011 the HGV traffic on BNRR would be as follows, about 55 per cent.--or approximately 7, 000 vehicles per day--of the through trips which otherwise would have used M6 between junctions 4 and 11 are predicted to transfer. These figures represent up to about 20per cent. of the total HGV traffic along this section of M6.
Mr. Shersby : To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what authority has been given or licences issued by his Department to Collins Road Services or to CRS to operate or park heavy vehicles on land known as Chaney's,
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Hubbards farm, West Drayton road, Hillingdon, Middlesex ; what consultations have taken place with the London borough of Hillingdon on this matter ; and if he will make a statement.Mr. Norris [holding answer 14 December 1993] : Decisions on individual operator licences are the responsibility of the traffic commissioners. I have asked the traffic commissioner for the south-eastern and metropolitan traffic area to write to my hon. Friend.
Trunk Road Assessment
Mr. Robert Ainsworth : To ask the Secretary of State for Transport when the report of the Standing Advisory Committee on Trunk Road Assessment on how far new roads generate traffic will be published ; and what were the reasons for delay in publication.
Mr. Key : The standing committee on trunk road assessment is still looking into the question of generated traffic and has not yet reported its findings to my Department.
HEALTH
NHS Trusts
Mr. Cohen : To ask the Secretary of State for Health if she will list each contract made with NHS trusts by (a) Her Majesty's Government and (b) regional health authorities for the current year.
Dr. Mawhinney : The readily available information is shown in the table. More detailed information could only be provided at disproportionate cost. A list of contracts made by trusts with regional health authorities is not available centrally.
Supra-regional services
Choriocarcinoma
Weston Park Hospital NHS Trust, Sheffield
Fulminant liver failure
King's College Hospital NHS Trust, London
Heart transplantation
Harefield Hospital NHS Trust (in association with Royal Brompton Hospital)
Northern General Hospital NHS Trust, Sheffield
Papworth Hospital NHS Trust, Cambridge
St. George's Hospital NHS Trust, London
Freeman Hospital NHS Trust, Newcastle
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Liver transplantationSt. James's University Hospital NHS Trust, Leeds
King's College Hospital NHS Trust, London
Royal Free Hospital NHS Trust, London
Addenbrooke's Hospital NHS Trust, Cambridge
Freeman Hospital NHS Trust, Newcastle
Neonatal and infant cardiac surgery
Freeman Hospital NHS Trust, Newcastle
Guy's Hospital NHS Trust, London
Harefield Hospital NHS Trust
Bristol Royal Hospital for Sick Children NHS Trust
Royal Liverpool Children's Hospital NHS Trust (Alder Hey) Southampton General Hospital NHS Trust
Paediatric liver services and Complex hepatobiliary surgery King's College Hospital NHS Trust, London
Proton therapy for large uveal melanomas
Mersey Centre for Radiotherapy and Oncology Clatterbridge Hospital NHS Trust, Wirral
Managed through Centrally Commissioned R&D programme
Vitamin K a possible risk for childhood cancer (Welsh Office) Llandough Hospital NHS Trust, Penarth, Glamorgan
Nottingham heart attack register
University Hospital Nottingham NHS Trust
The patterns of delay in mental health review tribunals King's College Hospital NHS Trust, London
Managed as part of the NHS R and D programme
Development of a transport incubator support system
King's Healthcare NHS Trust, (care of King's College Hospital NHS Trust, Denmark Hill site, London)
Development of a novel pneumatic driver for a paracorporeal ventricular assist device
Harefield Hospital NHS Trust
Development of a supra-pubic urine collection system
Southmead Health Services NHS Trust, Bristol
Development of a neo-anal system
The Royal London Hospital NHS Trust
Poisons Information Services
Guy's and St. Thomas's Hospital NHS Trust, London
United Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
High Security Infectious Diseases Unit
Coppetts Wood Hospital (managed by the Royal Free Hampstead NHS Trust)
Minimally Invasive Therapy Project
Minimally invasive therapy project, United Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
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