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Speeding

Mr. Dodds: To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland how many fixed penalty notices for speeding have been issued in each district command unit area in Northern Ireland in each year since 2001. [189963]

Mr. Pearson: The information requested is as follows.
Urban region

DCU area	2001	2002	2003	2004 1	Total
Antrim	939	493	697	545	2,674
East Belfast	1,041	598	2,055	2,255	5,949
North Belfast	356	362	919	1,220	2,857
South Belfast	205	268	879	479	1,831
West Belfast	67	258	250	614	1,189
Carrickfergus	438	534	496	140	1,608
Castlereagh	1,019	1,423	5,142	2,804	10,388
Larne	388	387	276	132	1,183
Lisburn	1,429	960	643	384	3,416
Newtownabbey	543	693	558	230	2,024
Newtownards	1,098	1,242	897	216	3,453
North Down	1,070	1,135	1,048	1,424	4,677
DCU area unknown	0	8	0	0	8
Yearly total	8,593	8,361	13,860	10,443	41,257

⁽³⁰⁾ To 31 August 2004.


Rural region

DCU area	2001	2002	2003	2004 1	Total
Armagh	1,077	770	1,371	146	3,364
Ballymena	1,650	2,234	1,759	594	6,237
Ballymoney	732	1,090	615	136	2,573
Banbridge	1,772	2,097	1895	913	6,677
Coleraine	769	864	639	466	2,738
Cookstown	336	267	279	168	1,050
Craigavon	2,049	2,841	1,164	808	6,862
Down	904	1,113	705	485	3,207
Dungannon	525	571	443	283	1,822
Fermanagh	1,690	1,986	873	188	4,737
Foyle	1,024	1,019	1,011	786	3,840
Limavady	742	607	512	268	2,129
Magherafelt	587	712	690	436	2,425
Moyle	0	186	200	41	427
Newry and Mourne	1,019	806	1,135	1,140	4,100
Omagh	762	936	566	350	2,614
Strabane	328	417	288	78	1,111
Unknown DCU area	113	12	0	0	125
Yearly total	16,079	18,528	14,145	7,286	56,038

⁽³¹⁾ To 31 August 2004.


 
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Titanic Quarter

Lady Hermon: To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland whether a business plan for the proposal to establish a museum for sea and sky at Titanic Quarter; has been drawn-up; and what the estimated costs are for planned developments. [182603]

Angela Smith: I refer the hon. Lady to the answer given to the hon. Member for East Antrim on 28 June 2004, Official Report, column 56W. The estimated cost of a new build museum with a floor area/display space of 10,000 square metres is approximately £60 million.
 
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Travellers

Mr. Dodds: To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland what plans he has to review the law on trespass to tackle the occupation of business and residential property by large groups of travellers. [191364]

Mr. Spellar: On 11 October legislative proposals that provide for the removal of trespassers who intend residing on land were published for consultation. The draft Unauthorised Encampments (NI) Order 2004 gives the police the power to direct people who camp illegally to leave land and remove their vehicles and other property in certain circumstances. It also creates an offence and a power of seizure for non-compliance with a direction.

Subject to the outcome of consultation, new legislation should be laid before Parliament early next year.

Trevor Kells

Mr. Dodds: To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland if he will make a statement on the murder of Trevor Kells in December 2000 in north Belfast. [186193]

Mr. Pearson: The murder of Trevor Kells is still an ongoing investigation. Persons have been arrested but released without charge due to lack of evidence. The police will continue to seek any new opportunity to help develop and progress the investigation into this horrific murder.
 
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EDUCATION AND SKILLS

Admissions

Mr. Hoban: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills if he will list the local education authorities where the Secretary of State has had to determine whether a ranked or equal preference co-ordinated admissions scheme should be used. [191943]

Mr. Miliband: It is a requirement of all co-ordinated admissions schemes that parents must rank their preferences on a common application form, but there are generally two types of scheme. Under an 'equal preference' scheme details of all applications are forwarded to admission authorities at the same time, regardless of ranking, to be considered together; whereas under a 'first preference first' scheme all first preference applicants are considered before second or third or lower preference applicants.

The Secretary of State has imposed co-ordinated admissions schemes on the following areas:

Bromley

Calderdale

Cumbria

Dorset

Kent

Lancashire

Milton Keynes

These were equal preference schemes.

Mr. Hoban: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills if he will list the local education authorities that have adopted a ranked preference scheme for co-ordinated admissions policies. [191944]

 
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Mr. Miliband: The following local education authorities have adopted co-ordinated admissions schemes that consider first preference applications before second, third or lower ranked preferences:

Blackpool

Bolton

Brighton and Hove

Bristol

Cheshire

Cornwall

East Sussex

Gateshead

Hartlepool

Isle of Wight

North Lincolnshire

Oldham

Peterborough

Poole

Portsmouth

Stockton-on-Tees

Swindon

Tameside

Warrington

Warwickshire

Wigan

Child Care

Hugh Bayley: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many child care places there have been in (a) City of York and (b) Yorkshire and the Humber in each year since 1997. [188946]

Margaret Hodge: The information is not available in the form requested.

Figures for 1997–2001 are shown in Table 1.
Table 1: Number of day care places1,2 by type of provider 1997–2001 position at 31 March each year

	1997	1998	1999	2000	2001
City of York local education authority area
Day nurseries	840	840	930	980	1,000
Playgroups and pre-schools	1,400	1,300	1,300	1,300	1,300
Childminders	2,200	1,900	1,800	1,700	1,700
Out of school clubs	410	380	400	510	950
Holiday schemes(34)	560	410	(35)420	(36)1,900	3,200
Yorkshire and the Humber government office region
Day nurseries	17,500	15,600	25,000	24,800	25,300
Playgroups and pre-schools	31,200	25,500	28,500	26,100	25,500
Childminders	31,600	29,700	29,100	30,000	29,500
Out of school clubs	6,500	8,300	11,000	12,900	14,300
Holiday schemes(34)	19,000	14,600	56,000	(36)52,900	58,500

⁽³²⁾ The figures have been rounded.
⁽³³⁾ Data Source: Children's Day Care Facilities Survey.
⁽³⁴⁾ From 1999, places were counted once for each school holiday. Before 1999, places were counted once each year.
⁽³⁵⁾ Places may have been counted once rather than once for each school holiday; see footnote 3.
⁽³⁶⁾ Includes schemes that were exempt from registration.




 
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Figures for 2003 and 2004 are shown in Table 2.
Table 2: Number of day care places1,2 by type of provider 2003 and 2004 position at 31 March each year

	2003	2004
City of York local education authority area
Full day care	1,600	1,700
Sessional day care	1,000	1,000
Childminders	1,400	1,300
Out of school day care	1,200	1,200
Crèche day care	200	100
Yorkshire and the Humber government office region
Full day care	35,100	42,600
Sessional day care	21,400	20,900
Childminders	30,500	32,100
Out of school day care	21,700	24,600
Crèche day care	2,900	3,520

⁽³⁷⁾ The figures have been rounded.
⁽³⁸⁾ Data Source: Ofsted

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