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Ryanair Decision

Mr. Tyler: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what implications for the air services at publicly owned airports in the UK he has identified in the decision of the European Commission in the case affecting Ryanair; and if he will make a statement. [153412]

Mr. McNulty: We will consider carefully all aspects of the case affecting Ryanair at Charleroi once we have received the full text of the European Commission's decision. I note from the Commission's press notice that the decision does not rule out the possibility of start-up funding for new routes at regional airports, provided certain conditions are met.

Sea Cadet Training Posts

Mr. Carmichael: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport how many sea cadet training posts have been funded by the Government in each of the last six years. [152948]

Mr. Jamieson: The following numbers of new starters have been funded under the Support for Maritime Training (SMarT) scheme in the last six years.

	Number
1989–99	498
1999–2000	513
2000–01	472
2001–02	480
2002–03	557
2003–04	(19)566

⁽¹⁹⁾Estimate. Will be confirmed by year-end return process.

Seafarer Training

Mr. Carmichael: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport how much the Government have spent on seafarer training in each of the last six years. [152949]

Mr. Jamieson: The following amounts of funding have been provided under the Support for Maritime Training Scheme (SMarT) in the last six years.

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	£ million
1989–99	1.8
1999–2000	5.7
2000–01	6.3
2001–02	6.4
2002–03	7.3
2003–04	(20)6.4

⁽²⁰⁾ To date. Will be confirmed during year-end reporting process.

Shipping Strategy Paper

Mr. Carmichael: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what plans his Department has to carry out an assessment of the progress made in implementing the shipping strategy paper, "British Shipping: Charting a New Course", published in December 1998. [152952]

Mr. Jamieson: The progress made in implementing the actions from "British Shipping: Charting a New Course" is monitored during meetings of the Shipping Task Force.

Speed Cameras

Mr. Damian Green: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport which safety camera partnerships moved cameras for reasons of effectiveness between 1 January and 31 December 2003. [149989]

Mr. Jamieson: All Safety Camera Partnerships regularly move cameras between their approved fixed camera housings and deploy mobile camera units flexibly between approved locations at different times.

Mr. McLoughlin: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport (1) how much money was raised in fines from speed cameras in the last year for which records are available in (a) the East Midlands and (b) West Derbyshire; [150887]

(2) how much money raised in fines from speed cameras during the last year for which records are available was spent in (a) the East Midlands and (b) West Derbyshire; and how that money was spent. [150886]

Mr. Jamieson: The amounts of fixed penalty receipts from speed and red traffic light cameras in the areas covered by the Government Office for the East Midlands for the latest year for which figures are available are:

		2001–02
	Fine receipts	Reimbursed to partnership	To HMT
East Midlands
Derbyshire	654,000	502,126	151,874
Leicestershire(21)	n/a	n/a	n/a
Lincolnshire	855,480	486,891	368,589
Northamptonshire	2,967,640	2,247,838	719,802
Nottingham	812,640	778,536	34,104

⁽²¹⁾ Leicestershire did not join the scheme until April 2002.

Note:

Figures for speed cameras alone are not separately available.

It is not possible to identify West Derbyshire separately from the county. All fine income surplus to that returned to the partnerships to cover their safety camera activity is passed to the Consolidated Fund.

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Mr. Pope: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport who appointed the members of the Lancashire Safety Camera partnership; what the length is of their term of office; and to whom they are accountable. [151266]

Mr. Jamieson: Safety Camera Partnerships comprise representatives of local police authorities, local highways authorities and magistrates' court committees. The Chief Officer of these organisations appointed the members of the Lancashire Safety Camera Partnership. Each authority and its organisation is subject to their respective provisions for accountability and terms of appointment.

Mr. Burns: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport how many speed cameras (a) there are and (b) there have been in each of the last five years in (i) Essex and (ii) the west Chelmsford constituency. [151356]

Mr. Jamieson [holding answer 28 January 2004]: The Essex Safety Camera Partnership covers the whole of the county. Separate information is not available for the west Chelmsford area. Details of the number of speed camera locations, for the Essex partnership are:

	Fixed locations	Mobile locations or routes
1999	28	44
2000	28	110
2001	28	259
2002	37	219
2003	54	318

Police authorities also have operational discretion to deploy cameras exceptionally at other locations, including "community concern sites" where there is evidence of speeding causing concern to local residents.

Mr. Wiggin: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport if he will list the safety camera partnerships in Wales and the revenue that they have raised for each year since they were created. [151747]

Mr. Jamieson: There are two Safety Camera Partnerships in Wales. The North Wales Partnership joined the cost recovery scheme in October 2001. In that year conditional offer fixed penalty fines for speeding and red light offences were £648,780. The South Wales Safety Camera Partnership joined the scheme at its inception in April 2000.

Conditional offer fixed penalty fines for speeding and red light offences were £1,567,000 in South Wales in 2000–01 and £1,876,240 in 2001–02.

Mr. Evans: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport how many road traffic speed cameras there are in each of the areas covered by each of the police forces in Wales; and what the estimated revenue from them is in the current financial year. [152538]

Mr. Jamieson: Information on camera activity in safety camera partnerships is not available by constituency areas. The number of approved camera sites in the North and South Wales partnerships for the current financial year is:

North Wales—66

South Wales—357

These figures cover both fixed and mobile speed camera sites but exclude red traffic light cameras.

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The South Wales Partnership consists of three police force areas—South Wales, Gwent and Dyfed and Powys.

The 2003–04 operational cases for the two partnerships included the following estimated fixed fine receipts:

	Total estimated fine receipts (£)
North Wales	4,280,400
South Wales	7,980,000

Mr. Baron: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport pursuant to his answer of 22 January 2004, Official Report, column 1377W, on speed cameras (Essex), whether the sum of £1,846.480 includes the costs of purchasing speed cameras. [152694]

Mr. Jamieson [holding answer 3 February 2004]: Yes.

Speed Restrictions

Mr. Amess: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what criteria are used to determine speed restrictions in built up areas. [152158]

Mr. Jamieson: The Government provides guidance to local authorities on the setting of local speed limits. The guidance on 20 mph zones and 20 mph speed limits is contained in Circular Roads 05/99. That on other speed limits is in Circular Roads 1/93. Copies of both may be found in the House of Commons Library and on the DfT website.

Tonnage Tax Scheme

Mr. Carmichael: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what plans his Department has to widen the training requirement for entry into the tonnage tax scheme to include a requirement for the employment of British officers. [152945]

Mr. Jamieson: Members of the Shipping Task Force have been invited to submit proposals for an employment link in tonnage tax. We expect to have first sight of the proposals in the next few weeks and they will be considered without commitment.

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