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Energy Saving Trust

Mr. Randall: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport how much funding is allocated to the Cleanup project operated by the Energy Saving Trust in the current financial year; and how much has been spent in this financial year. [141790]

Mr. Jamieson: In the current financial year, take-up of CleanUp grants has been strong, and the year's resources have been fully allocated. However, if existing offers are not fully taken up, the resources will be allocated to organisations or individuals whose grant applications have been placed on the CleanUp waiting list

The CleanUp budget for the financial year 2003–04 is £12.562 million and as of the end of October the Department for Transport had paid the Energy Savings Trust £7.835m for the CleanUp programme.

Debt

Brian Cotter: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport how many claims for statutory interest payments have been submitted to private companies under the terms of the Late Payment of Debt Act 1998; how many claims were met; and what the total value was of such payments in each year since the Act has been in operation. [141597]

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Mr. McNulty: I refer the hon. Member to the answer given by my hon. Friend, the Minister for Small Business and Enterprise (Nigel Griffiths) on 3 December 2003, Official Report, column 102W.

Legislation

Mr. Redwood: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport how many pages of (a) primary and (b) secondary legislation his Department put through Parliament in 2002–03. [141173]

Dr. Howells: My Department sponsored one Bill in the 2002–03 session which comprised 92 pages once enacted.

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In the case of secondary legislation my Department was responsible for the making of 127 General Statutory Instruments which would have subject to consideration by either the Joint Committee on Statutory Instruments or the Select Committee on Statutory Instruments. These instruments made a total of 1,264 pages.

Light Dues

John Thurso: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport how much revenue from light dues has been collected from ships calling at ports in (a) Scotland, (b) the Isle of Man, (c) England and Wales, (d) Northern Ireland and (e) the Republic of Ireland in each of the last five financial years. [141747]

Mr. Jamieson: The information requested is given in the following table.

£

	1998–99	1999–2000	2000–01	2001–02	2002–03
Scotland	8,034,124.92	8,929,663.47	9,110,457.12	8,536,210.39	7,270,783.41
Isle of Man	44,424.38	20,635.93	19,012.13	19,400.57	26,074.60
England and Wales	54,942,311.20	55,756,005.50	57,923,611.28	62,489,782.79	60,343,913.47
Northern Ireland	617,011.16	662,503.18	599,414.51	662,195.49	637,721.11
R.O.I (Customs and Excise)	3,131,480.85	3,464,779.82	3,416,674.55	3,077,673.30	3,363,729.90
Total	66,769,352.51	68,833,587.90	71,069,169.59	74,785,262.54	71,642,222.49

The figures above are for General Light dues and does not include income from UK fishing vessels and tugs.

The figures do not include any light dues refunds that were made.

The figures for ROI are shown in sterling converted at an exchange rate based on the Bank of England average for each month. Pre-conversion figures shown as follows.

R.O.I (Customs and Excise)

	Figures
1998–99	3,597,474.41
1999–2000	4,246,163.66
2000–01	4,396,335.39
2001–02	4,144,997.18
2002–03	5,268,090.44

John Thurso: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what financial contribution in (a) sterling, (b) euros and (c) punts has been made by the Irish Government under the terms of the 1985 agreement for the sharing of certain costs incurred by the Commissioners of Lights in the Republic of Ireland in each of the last five years. [141748]

Mr. Jamieson: The information requested is set out in the following table.

Irish Government contributions for years 1997–98 to 2001–02

Financial years	Sterling	Euros	Punts
1997–98	1,815,847	2,556,153	2,013,134
1998–99	1,448,449	2,317,770	1,825,392
1999–2000	1,146,745	1,811,703	1,426,832
2000–01	1,307,234	2,110,825	1,662,410
2001–02(1)	2,063,889	3,214,780	2,531,845

⁽¹⁾ Conversion rate of euro to sterling used was the Bank of Ireland mid December 2002 rate of 0.6420.

Note:

Ir punts ceased as a currency on 1 January 2002.

London Underground

Mr. Damian Green: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport (1) how many defects there were on each line on the London Underground in each year between 1990 and 2003; [140931]

(2) how many equipment breakdowns there were on the London Underground in each year between 1990 and 2003, broken down by line. [140932]

Mr. McNulty: London Underground transferred from Central Government to Transport for London on 15 July. These are operational matters for London Underground, but it does not hold the data in the format requested.

M20

Mr. Damian Green: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what contribution the Highways Agency will make to the cost of building Junction 10A of the M20 and new roads to serve it; and if he will make a statement. [140822]

Mr. Jamieson: The overall cost currently estimated for the scheme is £46 million. The Highways Agency will be seeking funding from developers to meet the cost of those elements of the scheme needed to provide access to development sites in Ashford.

Maritime and Coastguard Agency

John Thurso: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport how much of the Maritime and Coastguard

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Agency budget was spent on (a) coastguard, (b) ship inspectors, (c) depots and (d) emergency towing vessels in each of the last five years. [141745]

Mr. Jamieson: The Maritime and Coastguard Agency's expenditure is set out in the following table:

£000

	Coastguard	Ship inspectors	Accommodation	Emergency towing vessels
	Resource accounts
2003–04	56,192	25,769	6,631	10,843
2002–03	53,346	25,072	6,071	11,050
2001–02	43,226	28,750	6,221	6,875
	Cash accounts
2000–01	44,800	18,955	6,466	6,774
1999–2000	45,922	15,473	6,529	5,742

Note:

The Resource Accounts figures include depreciation and capital charge which are not included within the Cash Accounts outturns.

Mobile Telephones

Mr. Amess: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what representations he has received on the banning of mobile telephones whilst driving. [142099]

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Mr. Jamieson: The Department has received many representations on the use of mobile phones while driving. The vast majority has been broadly in favour of a ban on the use of hand-held phones by drivers. There were over 1,000 responses to the Department's consultation document of 20 August 2002 on this. The results of that consultation were summarised in a document attached to the Department's decision letter of 24 June 2003. A copy was placed in the Library and is available on-line at: www.dft.gov.uk/stellent/groups/dft rdsafety/documents/page/dft rdsafety 508356.pdf

Pedestrian Deaths

Mr. Burstow: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport how many pedestrian deaths in road accidents there were where the pedestrian had over 100 mgs of alcohol per 100 mls of blood in each of the last six years; and what percentage of all pedestrian road accident deaths in (a) England and (b) each region this represents in each case. [141575]

Mr. Jamieson: Information on the blood alcohol levels of pedestrians is available for less than half of those who died in road accidents. The following table shows the percentage of fatally injured pedestrians aged 16 or over with a blood alcohol level of over 100 mg/100 ml out of those for whom a blood alcohol level has been provided by the Coroners.

Percentage

Region	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000	2001	Total
Northern	54	31	50	29	50	30	41
Yorks/Humberside	34	37	33	33	28	31	33
East Midlands	31	38	44	39	39	29	38
Eastern	37	33	31	46	33	27	35
South East	33	35	52	41	29	42	38
Greater London	23	25	25	25	22	38	27
South West	21	30	43	29	19	50	32
West Midlands	24	32	21	35	44	43	32
North West	35	22	29	44	28	29	31
England	33	31	34	36	31	35	33

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