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Service Other targets
performance targets
|Trains in |Escalators in |Lifts in |<4>Train service|<5>Station |Violent crime
|customer service|customer service|customer service|headways |closures
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Targets<8> set for 1993-94 |98.0 |89.0 |92.0 |95.0 |30 |To reduce
4 weeks ending 24 April 1993 |97.7 |88.9 |93.1 |95.3 |37 |1.38
4 weeks ending 22 May 1993 |97.8 |90.9 |95.3 |95.5 |24 |1.47
4 weeks ending 19 June 1993 |98.0 |87.4 |90.9 |95.4 |40 |1.20
4 weeks ending 17 July 1993 |98.1 |88.1 |89.6 |95.7 |43 |1.29
4 weeks ending 14 August 1993 |98.2 |89.6 |92.4 |95.6 |30 |1.40
4 weeks ending 11 September 1993 |98.1 |90.5 |94.0 |96.4 |32 |1.56
4 weeks ending 9 October 1993 |97.9 |91.5 |91.3 |96.3 |26 |1.21
4 weeks ending 6 November 1993 |97.9 |91.5 |93.2 |94.5 |23 |1.06
4 weeks ending 4 December 1993 |97.6 |92.4 |95.0 |94.9 |72 |1.06
Overall to date 1993-94 |97.8 |90.2 |92.3 |95.5 |36 |1.30
Notes :
<1> Source : London Underground Limited.
<2> All figures are percentages apart from Station closures.
<3> Includes figures for 4 weeks to 25 May 1992 which are not included in the table.
<4> Timed interval between trains.
<5> Stations closures within LUL's control.
<6> Percentage of stations with at least one way of buying a ticket.
<7> New target for 1993-94.
<8>Targets set in May 1992 for 1993-94 were reviewed and amended where necessary.
Pollution
Dr. Twinn : To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what initiatives his Department is planning to increase the attractiveness of the use of non-polluting modes of transport.
Mr. MacGregor : The only non-polluting modes of transport are cycling and walking ; all other modes give rise to pollution to some extent.
My Department carries out research and issues advice on ways to improve conditions on the roads for cyclists and pedestrians ; the transport policy and programme circular encourages local authorities to develop strategies that make better provision for these groups ; and the draft Planning Policy Guidance Note 13 on transport provides guidance on how land use planning and complementary transport measures can make walking and cycling more attractive.
Heathrow Express
Mr. Raynsford : To ask the Secretary of State for Transport if the annual track fee to be paid to Railtrack for the Heathrow Express service to and from Paddington station has been agreed.
Mr. Norris : Yes. The terms of payment for access to the western main line and Paddington station were agreed with British Rail last year and the agreement will be inherited by Railtrack. Details of the agreement are commercially confidential.
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Land Contamination
Mr. Dobson : To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what recomendations his Department has made to Barnet council for dealing with contamination of land at Coppetts wood, Finchley ; and if he will make a statement.
Mr. Norris : My Department has sent to the council a report of the testing of Coppett's wood site. The report includes recommendations for the treatment of the land and the Department at present awaits the council's response.
Mr. Dobson : To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what future meetings he plans to hold with representatives of Barnet council in connection with contamination of land at Coppett's wood, Finchley.
Mr. Norris : None is presently planned. The Department awaits the council's response to the report of the soil test.
Mr. Dobson : To ask the Secretary of State for Transport if he will publish a list of all correspondence since January 1988 between his Department and the London borough of Barnet relating to (a) issuing of exchange land certificates in connection with the widening of the North Circular Road, east of Falloden way and (b) condition and possible contamination of land at Coppetts wood in Finchley ; what was the date of each piece of correspondence ; who was the sender and recipient in each case ; and if he will make a statement.
Mr. Norris : The following is a list of correspondence between the Department of Transport and the London borough of Barnet since 1988 on (a) issues relating to the issuing of exchange land certificates for the east of Falloden way scheme.
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12 October 1988 |London Borough of Barnet |Department of Transport |Conditional agreement to use Friern Barnet site
|as exchange land
14 October 1988 |London Borough of Barnet |Department of Transport |Council approval of Friern Barnet site
19 October 1988 |London Borough of Barnet |Department of Transport |Purchase method of part of Friern Barnet site
10 January 1989 |Department of Transport |London Borough of Barnet |Request for information regarding open space
|reply to 10 January 1989
28 February 1989 |Department of Transport |London Borough of Barnet |Reduction in area of Friern Barnet site required
5 April 1989 |London Borough of Barnet |Department of Transport |Plan of Friern Barnet exchange land
14 April 1989 |Department of Transport |London Borough of Barnet |Department of Transport plan of exchange land
24 April 1989 |London Borough of Barnet |Department of Transport |Friern Barnet proposals to go to Council
|Committee
12 May 1989 |London Borough of Barnet |Department of Transport |Council approve part of Friern Barnet site
|for exchange land
20 May 1989 |London Borough of Barnet |Department of Transport |Committee report
19 July 1989 |London Borough of Barnet |Department of Transport |Sale of whole of Friern Barnet site
21 August 1989 |Department of Transport |London Borough of Barnet |Reply to 19 July
14 November 1990 |Certificates issued
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(b) List of correspondence between the Department of Transport and the London borough of Barnet in connection with discovery of contaminated soil on exchange land (Coppetts wood) for East of Falloden way scheme.Column 467
Date |Sender |Recipient |Topic
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13 October 1992 |Department of Transport |London Borough of Barnet |Comment on letter from Dr. Natelson
|Consultants
21 October 1992 |London Borough of Barnet |Department of Transport |Confirms preliminary soil tests carried out;
|Consultants |awaiting results
11 January 1993 |London Borough of Barnet |Department of Transport |Preliminary tests and evidence of contamination
27 January 1993 |Department of Transport |London Borough of Barnet |Agree to more extensive soil tests
26 February 1993 |Department of Transport |London Borough of Barnet |Confirmation immediate remedial measures in
|Consultants |hand
14 April 1993 |Department of Transport |London Borough of Barnet |Confirmation remedial measures nearing
|completion
26 April 1993 |Department of Transport |London Borough of Barnet |Details of soil investigations to be undertaken
|by Frank Graham and Partners and
|Foundation and Exploration Services Ltd.
|in June 1993
8 November 1993 |London Borough of Barnet |Department of Transport |Enquiry of progress on draft August soil report
23 November 1993 |Department of Transport |London Borough of Barnet |Copies of report forwarded for comment
|on recommended remedial treatment
The position regarding the treatment of contamination remains as stated in the answer given by my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for the Environment in January, except that, regrettably, the date of discovery of contamination supplied by my Department and quoted by him should have been October 1992 and not June 1993. Research into the correspondence has produced a reference to a report dated 1988, a copy of which was sent to my Department's consultants after the contamination was reported in 1992.
Channel Tunnel Rail Link
Mr. Rowe : To ask the Secretary of State for Transport how many representations he has received on the route of the CTRL since 22 March 1993 from (a) the parliamentary constituency of Mid-Kent, (b) the borough of Maidstone, (c) the city of Rochester upon Medway and (d) Kent ; and how many he has received specifically on the proposal to route the railway through the Boxley valley.
Mr. Freeman : The information is not readily available in the form requested, but in response to an invitation for formal comments on the refined route proposals the following responses have been received by my Department since 22 March 1993 : 67 representations from local authorities, action groups and other organisations in Kent ; 96 letters from individuals at Kent addresses, and 12 from Kent Members of Parliament and Members of the European Parliament ; 138 public comment forms were also completed and returned to Union Railways. The representations included 194 from the Maidstone area, four from the Rochester area ; 160 were in favour of the Mid-Kent long tunnel option under the Boxley valley.
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Sea Traffic (Radar)
Ms Walley : To ask the Secretary of State for Transport if he will extend radar coverage for traffic at sea to all parts of the United Kingdom sea areas including the Shetlands ; and if he will make a statement.
Mr. Norris : While there are no plans to extend radar surveillance of maritime traffic, this is an issue being considered by the inquiry announced by the Secretary of State to the House on 11 January 1993 under the chairmanship of Lord Donaldson of Lymington.
Ms Walley : To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what parts of the English Channel are covered by radar coverage for traffic at sea.
Mr. Norris : Radar coverage of shipping in the channel is covered by the channel navigation information service, operated by Her Majesty's Coastguard within an area bounded by the Greenwich meridian in the west to 002 to 20.0 east. However, it does not include all that area. The extent of radar surveillance is shown on Admiralty Chart 5500. I will send a photocopy of the relevant part of that chart to the hon. Member for Stoke- on-Trent, North.
Coastguard
Ms Walley : To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what proposals he has to enhance enforcement measures for Her Majesty's Coastguard ; and if he will make a statement.
Mr. Norris : Lord Donaldson is likely to be considering such measures as part of his inquiry. Careful consideration will be given to any recommendations which arise from the subsequent report.
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British Rail
Mr. Bayley : To ask the Secretary of State for Transport how many British Rail employees were based in York on 1 January of each year from 1979 to 1994.
Mr. Freeman : I refer to the reply I gave the hon. Member on 14 January 1994, c. 291 . Information for the previous years is not readily available and could be obtained only at disproportionate cost.
Mr. Cousins : To ask the Secretary of State for Transport how the proposed channel tunnel fastlink will be connected to the east coast main line ; whether the costs of this connection are included in the fastlink scheme ; what estimates he can give of handling east coast main line trains through the St. Pancras reversing movement to the fastlink ; and whether the east coast main line will be upgraded to VIC B loading gauge for freight traffic.
Mr. Freeman : A direct connection from St. Pancras to the east coast main line will be provided by means of a new link across the King's Cross railway lands, the cost of which is included in the estimates for the rail link. Use of St. Pancras will have no adverse effect on journey times. All trains will have to stop to allow officials undertaking on-train border controls to join or depart and for train crews to be changed. Trains leaving the station in the same direction as they arrive will not affect the length of the pause. BR does not propose upgrades to the loading gauges of existing railways, although private investors are free to do so.
Lancashire (Pollution)
Mr. Llew Smith : To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the answer of 19 January, Official Report, columns 663-4, what further information he has now received on the Lancashire pollution incident from the Laboratory of the Government Chemist.
Mr. Norris : I refer to my answer to the hon. Member for Glanford and Scunthorpe (Mr. Morley) of 26 January, col. 245.
Noise Insulation
Mr. Soley : To ask the Secretary of State for Transport if he will bring the west London line for rail freight within the scope of the draft noise insulation regulations.
Mr. Freeman : Ministers will consider all responses to the current consultation exercise before deciding whether the draft regulations should be amended prior to their submission to Parliament. Meanwhile, British Rail remains willing to discuss with the local authorities concerned the possibility of jointly funded noise mitigation schemes for appropriate locations on the west London line.
Taxis, London
Mr. Khabra : To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what representations he has received in response to his consultation on the future of taxi services in London.
Mr. Norris : I have received over 150 representations in response to the consultation paper on the future of taxi and private hire services in England and Wales issued by my Department. Many of these have referred to London. The consultation period ends on 1 March 1994.
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Public Service Obligation Grant
Mr. Lester : To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what will be the cash ceiling for public service obligation grant to British Rail for 1993-94 ; and if he will make a statement.
Mr. Freeman : The original cash ceiling of £850 million has been increased to £930 million in the light of revised forecasts. British Rail's external financing limit for 1993-94 is not affected.
Consultancies
Mr. Meacher : To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what was the value of consultancy contracts awarded by his Department each year since 1979, both in current prices and at constant 1994 prices.
Mr. Norris : I regret that this question could be answered only at disproprotionate cost.
Waste Dumping
Mr. Alex Carlile : To ask the Secretary of State for Transport if he will raise the maximum fine for illegal dumping of waste from shipping on to beaches ; and if he will make a statement.
Mr. Norris [holding answer 8 February 1994] : The maximum fine on conviction by indictment for causing pollution of United Kingdom waters by the illegal discharge of wastes from ships is unlimited.
Oil Discharges
Ms Walley : To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what measures he will introduce into partnership with other North sea Ministers to designate the North sea as a special area under the marine pollution convention in relation to oil discharges.
Mr. Norris [holding answer 8 February 1994] : An intermediate meeting of North sea conference Ministers in December 1993 considered actions taken within the International Maritime Organisation on annexes I and II of MARPOL. They agreed upon steps for further evaluation of reception facilities and the enforceability and impact of current regulations as a basis for considering at the 1995 North sea conference any need for designation of the North sea as a special area under these annexes. Officials are now taking the evaluation process forward for the United Kingdom in conjunction with representative ports and shipping organisations.
A copy of the Minister's statement of conclusions has been placed in the Library.
Ms Walley : To ask the Secretary of State for Transport if he will estimate the volume of oil which is intentionally discharged by shipping vessels into the North sea each year.
Mr. Norris [holding answer 8 February 1994] : It is estimated that legal operational discharges of oil from shipping traversing the North sea is between 1,000 and 2,000 tonnes per annum.
Ms Walley : To ask the Secretary of State for Transport whether there is any requirement for ships entering British ports to use reception facilities for the dispersing of oily wastes and garbage ; and where such facilities are available.
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Mr. Norris [holding answer Tuesday 8 February] : Harbour authorities and terminal operators are required to provide reception facilities for ships carrying oily wastes and garbage. There is no legal requirement for ships to use such facilities. Information on oil reception facilities in United Kingdom ports collected by the Department of Transport is contained in the International Maritime Organisation circular MEPC/Circ.234 copies of which have been placed in the Library. Indications are that all ports have arrangements for the reception of garbage.
Ms Walley : To ask the Secretary of State for Transport how many incidents of oil discharged into the North sea were reported in 1993-94 ; how many incidents were investigated ; and how many resulted in prosecutions under the marine pollution convention for each of the last five years.
Mr. Norris [holding answer 8 February 1994] : From January 1993 to January 1994, the Department's marine pollution control unit received reports of 397 pollution incidents in the United Kingdom sector of the North sea. Of these, 95 were related to ships, the rest were related to offshore installations. All of these incidents were investigated and as a result, 21 vessels were inspected at their next port of call, resulting in four cases being passed on for further investigation and possible prosecution--three to a foreign flag state and one to the Treasury Solicitor. All cases are still under investigation.
In the past five years, 25 shipping cases have been sent for further investigation by the relevant competent flag state authorities, including seven to our own Treasury Solicitor. Out of these 25 investigations, successful prosecutions have been obtained on seven occasions--see table-- and 10 cases are still under investigation :
|Number
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1989 |2
1990 |2
1991 |2
1992 |1
1993 |<1>-
<1> (Three referred
to Flag States).
Manchester Airport
Mr. Alfred Morris : To ask the Secretary of State for Transport (1) what estimate his Department has made of the economic benefits that accrue to Amsterdam and other European hubs from failure to allow direct services from Manchester airport and the diversion of passengers to airports on the continent ; and if he will make a statement ;
(2) what assessment he has made of the evidence given on behalf of Manchester Airport plc to the Select Committee on Transport in regard to the cost to regional airports of failing to liberalise access to them ; what action he will take ; and if he will make a statement ; (3) what estimate his Department has made of the loss to Manchester Airport plc of preventing the airport from meeting airline demand for additional services to and from Manchester ; and if he will make a statement on the airport's call for the liberalising of access to regional airports.
Mr. Norris [holding answer 9 February] : There is no reliable information available on the effects of the United
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Kingdom's aviation policy on airports in other countries. We have not yet been able to examine in detail the evidence given by Manchester airport to the Select Committee, but we have asked the CAA to examine in detail the economic impact of air services on regional airports, in consultation with United Kingdom airports, including Manchester, airlines and other Government Departments.It has long been the Government's policy to seek the maximum degree of liberalisation of our air services agreements in order to maximise the benefits to consumers, the airline industry and the United Kingdom economy generally. At the same time the Government have aimed to increase opportunities to regional airports. Individual proposals are considered on their merits and the Government have in the past given expanded opportunities to regional airports. For instance, as a result of the deal negotiated in 1990 three extra services to Manchester from the United States and a service from Birmingham to the United States have commenced. In addition the United Kingdom gave special permission outside the terms of the United States/United Kingdom Air Services Agreement last April for a service from New York to Belfast. As a continuation of our policy to liberalise services to regional airports the United Kingdom has put a proposal to the United States Government which offers immediate open access to United Kingdom regional airports from all United States cities.
Road Pricing
Mr. Llwyd : To ask the Secretary of State for Transport in which year the Government first began to examine the issue of road pricing ; and what are his current proposals.
Mr. Key : In May last year we published a Green Paper "Paying for Better Motorways" (Cm 2200) on the principle of direct charging for the use of inter-urban roads. The intention to publish this consultation document had been announced in the autumn statement in November 1992. On 2 December 1993, column 650, my right hon. Friend announced the Government's intention to introduce electronic charging on motorways when the technology was ready and subject to Parliament's approval of the necessary legislation.
The Government's research programme on the possible role of congestion charging in London was announced in 1991, and the Government have subsequently been co-operating with local authorities outside London which wish to examine the possibility of city congestion charging for their area. The Government are not committed to the introduction of city congestion charging, whether in London or elsewhere.
Road Safety
Ms Walley : To ask the Secretary of State for Transport which posts are currently designated, within the Department of Transport, to have responsibility for road safety ; and if he will list the grade level and title of each post.
Mr. Key : The improvement of road safety is one of our key objectives. In addition to members of the Department's road and vehicle safety directorate, this involves staff working on the planning, construction and maintenance of roads, and the testing and licensing of vehicles and drivers. Many other areas of the Department's work also contribute
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to improving road safety. It is therefore not possible to provide the information requested, except at disproportionate cost.Transport Supplementary Grant
Ms Walley : To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what amount of transport supplementary grant was awarded for 1994-95 to each highways authority ; and in each case what amount and percentage was allocated for road safety.
Mr. Key : The amount of transport supplementary grant awarded for 1994-95 to each highway authority was given in the Official Report for 15 December 1993, column 699. Resources for local safety schemes were given as supplementary credit approvals. Allocations under this category, and the proportion they represent of the total resources allocated under the transport supplementary grant system are as follows :
Authority |Allocations for
|Local Safety
|Schemes-1994-95
|£000 |Per cent.
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City of London |0 |0.0
Barking |315 |27.8
Barnet |430 |16.5
Bexley |330 |4.1
Brent |425 |15.5
Bromley |160 |8.4
Camden |440 |10.8
Croydon |513 |10.2
Ealing |320 |9.8
Enfield |302 |5.5
Greenwich |220 |8.4
Hackney |287 |8.6
Hammersmith |550 |10.0
Haringey |327 |10.4
Harrow |140 |1.6
Havering |240 |27.6
Hillingdon |750 |14.6
Hounslow |270 |4.8
Islington |480 |15.4
Kensington |220 |19.1
Kingston |235 |6.7
Lambeth |104 |6.0
Lewisham |425 |4.3
Merton |280 |16.2
Newham |385 |3.4
Redbridge |213 |12.6
Richmond |250 |12.9
Southwark |400 |10.4
Sutton |322 |13.9
Tower Hamlets |400 |7.4
Waltham Forest |429 |17.1
Wandsworth |801 |12.5
Westminster |420 |11.3
Bolton |188 |5.1
Bury |220 |9.7
Manchester |720 |2.9
Oldham |400 |7.8
Rochdale |235 |9.7
Salford |595 |20.2
Stockport |190 |3.9
Tameside |270 |14.0
Trafford |210 |1.8
Wigan |145 |10.3
Knowsley |280 |1.4
Liverpool |368 |6.1
St. Helens |70 |9.7
Sefton |266 |23.7
Wirral |485 |15.7
Barnsley |340 |5.1
Doncaster |357 |5.7
Rotherham |207 |4.3
Sheffield |340 |1.7
Gateshead |250 |18.5
Newcastle |250 |2.7
North Tyneside |206 |12.2
South Tyneside |360 |27.3
Sunderland |399 |10.7
Birmingham |1,017 |2.8
Coventry |307 |2.1
Dudley |313 |3.2
Sandwell |296 |5.8
Solihull |203 |6.3
Walsall |265 |1.6
Wolverhampton |249 |1.3
Bradford |650 |9.0
Calderdale |325 |9.5
Kirklees |570 |8.1
Leeds |670 |3.6
Wakefield |400 |11.7
Avon |542 |2.9
Bedfordshire |485 |9.6
Berkshire |650 |6.4
Buckinghamshire |538 |16.5
Cambridgeshire |1,275 |19.0
Cheshire |545 |2.5
Cleveland |393 |3.1
Cornwall |369 |3.3
Cumbria |390 |7.9
Derbyshire |602 |11.6
Devon |763 |7.7
Dorset |588 |9.9
Durham |250 |2.2
East Sussex |540 |6.5
Essex |1,517 |7.9
Gloucestershire |438 |5.3
Hampshire |1,200 |4.2
Hereford and Worcestershire |563 |15.4
Hertfordshire |1,070 |8.9
Humberside |690 |4.0
Isle of Wight |230 |7.7
Kent |1,050 |1.1
Lancashire |1,195 |4.5
Leicestershire |609 |8.0
Lincolnshire |440 |5.9
Norfolk |811 |5.7
Northamptonshire |756 |12.3
Northumberland |425 |5.5
North Yorkshire |700 |4.5
Nottinghamshire |823 |7.7
Oxfordshire |545 |10.5
Shropshire |322 |7.2
Somerset |284 |2.7
Staffordshire |520 |3.6
Suffolk |755 |8.1
Surrey |1,184 |4.5
Warwickshire |896 |19.9
West Sussex |565 |8.1
Wiltshire |483 |12.1
Road Repairs
Ms Walley : To ask the Secretary of State for Transport (1) what assessment he has made of the state of disrepair of principal roads ;
(2) what procedure he uses for assessing the state of repair of principal roads.
Mr. Key : The condition of roads in England and Wales is monitored by means of the national road maintenance condition survey. Each year a random sample of some 11,000 100m sites is inspected for the presence of certain pre-defined defects visible at the surface. Results for each
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road class are expressed as index numbers which allow trends in condition to be monitored. They are published in an annual report, copies of which are available in the Library.Motor Cycles
Mr. Nigel Jones : To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what factors were taken into account in deciding to accept the stage II noise limits of motor cycles ; and what representations he received on the issue.
Mr. Key : The stage I and stage II noise limits for motorcycles were initially proposed in a draft directive (9148/84) in 1984 and were the subject of a report of the House of Lords "Select Committee on the European Communities"--Session 1984-85, 9th Report, "Motorcycle Noise". Evidence was provided to the Committee by the National Society for Clean Air, the Motorcycle Association of Great Britain Ltd., the Noise Abatement Society, the British Motorcyclists Federation, the Greater London Council, the Transport and Road Research Laboratory, now the Transport Research Laboratory, as well as the Department of Transport. The Committee welcomed the initiative taken by the Commission in proposing a new directive which was subsequently adopted, with minor amendments, as Council directive 87/56/EEC of 18 December 1987.
The directive is currently the subject of a revised proposal as part of the introduction of motorcycle whole vehicle type approval. The stage II limits contained within Council directive 87/56/EEC are retained, but the implementation date is deferred until 1 January 1997.
Brookethorpe and Whaddon Service Area
Mr. Nigel Jones : To ask the Secretary of State for Transport when a decision will be announced about the proposed motorway service area at Brookethorpe and Whaddon ; and what representations he has received about it.
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Mr. Key : Since August 1992 it has been for the private sector rather than my Department to identify sites for new motorway service areas, seek planning permission and acquire the land. I understand that a planning application has been submitted for a motorway service area at Ongers farm, near Brookthorpe, and that this is to be the subject of a public inquiry in May. It will then be for the inspector appointed by my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for the Environment to decide whether planning permission should be granted. My Department has received one letter expressing opposition to the proposal.
Visual Display Units
Mr. Andrew Smith : To ask the Secretary of State for Transport if he will list by office and by year since the introduction of the Local Office Business system the number of replacement visual display units, as distinct from new visual display units, supplied to the local office network.
Mr. Key [holding answer 9 February 1994] : No details are kept by DVLA on the replacement of VDUs. Responsibility for this was subject to contract between IBM and the Driver, Vehicle Operators Information Technology Agency. The latter was acquired by Electronic Data Services when DVOIT was privatised in December 1993 and details could now be made available only at disproportionate cost.
Mr. Andrew Smith : To ask the Secretary of State for Transport if he will list by year and by office the number of visual display units that have been introduced into the DVLA local office network under the local office business system.
Mr. Key [holding answer 9 February 1994] : The information requested is as follows :
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Office |Total |1993-94 |1992-93 |1991-92 |Prior 1991
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Aberdeen |6 |3 |1 |1 |1
Bangor |8 |- |4 |2 |2
Birmingham |42 |16 |16 |3 |7
Bournemouth |13 |2 |1 |2 |8
Brighton |24 |- |9 |- |15
Bristol |14 |- |3 |2 |9
Cardiff |21 |4 |6 |2 |9
Carlisle |6 |3 |1 |- |2
Chelmsford |26 |9 |5 |1 |11
Chester |8 |- |4 |- |4
Coventry |15 |4 |3 |- |8
Croydon |6 |- |3 |1 |2
Dundee |9 |3 |3 |2 |1
Edinburgh |15 |2 |8 |1 |4
Exeter |12 |- |4 |1 |7
Glasgow |35 |8 |13 |1 |13
Gloucester |16 |- |5 |3 |8
Guildford |22 |3 |10 |- |9
Haverfordwest |6 |- |1 |- |5
Huddersfield |9 |2 |2 |- |5
Hull |6 |- |2 |- |4
Ilford |10 |- |2 |- |8
Inverness |6 |2 |1 |- |3
Ipswich |15 |5 |3 |1 |6
Leeds |15 |2 |4 |- |9
Leicester |13 |3 |2 |- |8
Lincoln |9 |1 |1 |1 |6
Liverpool |12 |- |1 |- |11
London Central |6 |- |2 |- |4
Luton |27 |11 |1 |1 |14
Maidstone |22 |- |8 |- |14
Manchester |33 |- |19 |1 |13
Middlesbrough |8 |6 |1 |- |1
Newcastle |15 |3 |2 |1 |9
Northampton |15 |2 |5 |2 |6
Norwich |15 |5 |2 |1 |7
Nottingham |16 |6 |4 |2 |4
Oxford |10 |- |2 |1 |7
Peterborough |11 |1 |2 |1 |7
Portsmouth |15 |1 |2 |2 |10
Preston |13 |- |5 |2 |6
Reading |22 |- |10 |1 |11
Sheffield |19 |- |11 |- |8
Shrewsbury |6 |3 |2 |- |1
Stanmore |8 |- |2 |- |6
Stoke |9 |- |3 |- |6
Swansea |10 |- |3 |- |7
Swindon |14 |- |6 |- |8
Taunton |12 |3 |4 |- |5
Truro |7 |- |1 |- |6
Worcester |11 |- |1 |- |10
Leo |97 |2 |- |- |95
GMS |22 |- |- |- |22
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|842 |115 |216 |39 |472
Fines
Mr. Andrew Smith : To ask the Secretary of State for Transport if he will list by year and office how much additional revenue has been generated by the prosecution of regulation 12 cases ; and if he will estimate the revenue which will be gained over the next three years.
Mr. Key [holding answer 9 February 1994] : The information requested for 1991-92 and 1992-93 is as follows :
Office |Revenue|Revenue
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Birmingham |116,272|17,954
Dudley |45,989 |22,671
Lincoln |16,815 |n/a
Northampton |47,283 |29,379
Nottingham |56,525 |n/a
Peterborough |22,939 |40,971
Leicester |11,106 |n/a
Bournemouth |755 |120
Guildford |8,299 |n/a
Maidstone |10,583 |n/a
Portsmouth |1,457 |n/a
Huddersfield |6,751 |1,305
Manchester |6,625 |n/a
Preston |3,158 |2,419
Sheffield |6,007 |n/a
Hull |4,326 |n/a
Leeds |3,269 |n/a
Bristol |33,750 |16,749
Gloucester |10,960 |2,010
Taunton |2,558 |n/a
Truro |310 |n/a
Worcester |4,288 |525
Middlesborough |1,240 |n/a
Newcastle |2,331 |n/a
Oxford |13,676 |n/a
Ipswich |10,228 |3,660
Luton |21,697 |3,691
London |117,221|n/a
Enforcement office
|-------|-------
Total |646,454|141,454
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The revenue targets for regulation 12 prosecutions for the years 1994-95 to 1996-97 have not yet been agreed betwen the agency and the Department of Transport.Mr. Andrew Smith : To ask the Secretary of State for Transport if he will list the average fine, costs and back duty awarded by the courts for a successful prosecution of section 8 cases and section 12 cases.
Mr. Key [holding answer 9 February 1994] : The information requested for the period April-December 1993 is :
|Section 8 |Regulation 12
|£ |£
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Average Fine |85.96 |59.47
Average Costs |21.52 |7.23
Average Section 9 |47.48 |-
Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency
Mr. Andrew Smith : To ask the Secretary of State for Transport if he will list by year and office how much additional revenue has been generated by DVLA staff undertaking their own prosecutions.
Mr. Key [holding answer 9 February 1994] : It is not possible to list how much additional revenue was recovered by each local office. The amount of revenue recovered in respect of cases prosecuted by DVLA only for 1992-93 is £25.6 million. This is a 15 per cent. increase over the £22.4 million recovered through both DVLA and the Crown Prosecution Service during 1991-92.
Mr. Andrew Smith : To ask the Secretary of State for Transport if he will list the number of successful cases prosecuted by DVLA staff since they undertook their own prosecution work.
Mr. Key [holding answer 9 February 1994] : The information requested since April 1992 is :
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|Cases
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April 1992-93 |178,731
April 1993-December 1993 |158,175
DEFENCE
Senior Officers
Mr. Boyes : To ask the Secretary of State for Defence if he will produce a table showing the number of generals, admirals and air marshals in active service ; and what are the salary levels for each of those ranks.
Mr. Hanley : Information on the number of officers at each rank level of the armed forces is contained in table 1 of the Defence Analytical Services quarterly publication TSP9, a copy of which is in the Library of the House.
Table 2.23 of the "UK Defence Statistics" publication provides illustrative data on military salaries. On this basis, the 1993-94 rates for senior officers are as follows :
|£
-----------------------------------------------------
Field Marshal (and equivalents) |112,084
General (and equivalents) |90,148
Lieutenant General (and equivalents) |64,842
Major General (and equivalents) |56,710
Ships
Mr. Boyes : To ask the Secretary of State for Defence how many ships are on active service.
Mr. Hanley : On 8 February there were 124 commissioned surface vessels and submarines in service with the Royal Navy, including those in refit. There are, however, also 21 vessels in service with the Royal Fleet Auxiliary, whose supporting role is essential to the provision of the Royal Navy's overall capability.
Executive Agencies
Mr. McMaster : To ask the Secretary of State for Defence if he will list the subjects on which his Department formerly answered parliamentary questions but which are now refered by him to an executive agency.
Mr. Aitken : Next steps agency chief executives are usually asked to reply to parliamentary questions about the day-to-day operational matters of their agency and on subjects for which they have delegated responsibility, as set out in the agency's framework document.
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