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TRANSPORT
Anti-terrorism Awareness
Patrick Mercer:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport (1) what measures his Department has put in place to offer financial assistance to (a) sea freight and (b) air freight companies to help improve anti-terrorism awareness; [184591]
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(2) what measures his Department has put in place to offer training to (a) shipping freight and (b) air freight companies in anti-terrorism awareness. [184592]
Mr. Jamieson:
It has long been central to UK transport policy that users should pay the full costs, including those of security. Organisations delivering training in air cargo security are required to be approved in that role by the Department, and to that end the instructors are required to have attended an air cargo managers course and are then provided with a training
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pack setting our the UK National Aviation Security Training Programme, with objectives and teaching points to ensure that the training, when they are accredited, represents a proper understanding of how responsibilities for air cargo security should be discharged.
For shipping freight companies it is part of the Port Facility Security Officer's (PFSO) responsibilities, under the International Ship and Port Security (ISPS) Code, to ensure that appropriate training is conducted by their security staff.
Aviation (External Costs)
Norman Baker: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what estimate he has made of the external costs associated with aviation, with particular reference to the environmental costs. [184848]
Mr. McNulty: The principal external costs considered in work supporting "The Future of Air Transport" White Paper were environmental costs, the largest of which is the impact of aviation on global emissions. The supporting paper to the White Paper, "Aviation and Global Warming", February 2004, reports—for an additional runway at Stansted followed by an additional runway at Heathrow—a net present value of the cost of associated global emissions to lie between £3.3 billion and £5.2 billion.
Bus Services
Dr. Strang: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what the cost to each local authority in England arising from the tendering of local bus services was in each of the last five years. [185822]
Dr. Howells: The table shows expenditure on support for local bus services by local transport authorities London between 1998–99 and 2002–03, the last year for which figures are available.
n/a= figures not available
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These data have been taken from local authority and Passenger Transport Authority administrative returns. In addition to the cost of tenders for supported services, the figures include related expenditure on administrative services and some other payments.
Mr. Mole: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport whether he has discussed the competition implications of all bus through ticketing with the Department of Trade and Industry. [185390]
Mr. McNulty:
I have discussed the issue of joint bus ticketing with my colleague the Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Employment Relations, Competition and Consumers. My right hon. Friend the Secretary of State has discussed the matter with the
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Chairman of the Office of Fair Trading (OFT), the body which has responsibility for applying competition law to the bus industry. Department for Transport officials hold regular meetings with OFT officials to discuss progress on bus ticketing schemes.
Central Trains
Mr. Luff: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport if he will list the stations in the Central Trains franchise area where selective door-opening of trains is permitted. [185848]
Mr. McNulty: There are five stations in the Central Trains franchise area where selective train door opening is permitted. They are: The Lakes (Warwickshire), Spooner Row, Whittlesea, Waterbeach and Bedworth.
Departmental Consultants
Andrew Selous: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport how much his Department spent on (a) headhunters and recruitment consultants and (b) management consultants in (i) 1996–97 and (ii) the latest year for which figures are available. [185246]
Mr. McNulty [holding answer 21 July 2004]: The Department was formed in May 2002. The Department spent £58.5 million in 2003–04 on all types of consultancy excluding research. Separate figures for management consultancy are not held centrally and could only be provided at disproportionate cost. The Department spent £1.7 million in 2003–04 on recruitment consultants.
Andrew Selous: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport how much was spent by his Department on public relations consultants in (a) 1996–97 and (b) the latest year for which figures are available. [185247]
Mr. McNulty [holding answer 21 July 2004]: Expenditure figures for the financial years are set out as follows. The majority of costs for public relations consultants were devoted to the THINK! road safety campaign and sustainable travel.
In the 2003–04 financial year the Department for Transport spent £347,666.56 on public relations consultants.
Identifying any public relations consultants' costs for the old Department of Transport in 1996–97 could be done only at disproportionate cost.
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