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Road Accidents
Mr. Robathan: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport how many fatal road accidents in each year between 2000 and 2004 involved drivers that were foreign visitors, broken down by nationality of driver concerned. [198561]
Mr. Jamieson: The information requested is not available.
Road Safety
Mr. Ben Chapman: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport if he will make a statement on road safety in Wirral, South. [198938]
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Mr. Jamieson: The Government are committed to helping local highway authorities play their part in delivering the national casualty reduction targets by 2010. The local highway authority has invested £1.1 million in road safety initiatives in Wirral, including £150,000 on traffic signal improvements in Wirral, South.
Roads
Mr. Marshall: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what plans he has to improve (a) maintenance, (b) signage and (c) markings on (i) trunk roads and (ii) motorways; and if he will make a statement. [197649]
Mr. Jamieson: This Government have made the maintenance of trunk roads and motorways in England their first investment priority for strategic roads. The Highways Agency aims to carry out the right maintenance treatment at the right time in order to minimise costs and delays to traffic. Signage and markings are maintained in accordance with the Highways Agency's standards and guidance, which are kept under review.
Select Committee Recommendations
Mr. Allen: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport how many recommendations by parliamentary select committees have been adopted by his Department since June 2001. [197777]
Charlotte Atkins: Select committee reports are given very careful consideration by the Department's Ministers. Since 29 May 2002, when this Department was formed, several committees of both Houses have made recommendations on matters for which the Department for Transport is responsible. Select committee reports and their responses are a matter of public record.
South West Trains
Mr. Hancock: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport pursuant to the answer of 21 October 2004, Official Report, columns 871–74W, on South West Trains, what information the Strategic Rail Authority received from South West Trains concerning (a) the dates of the consultation exercise and (b) details of the representations they received; and if he will make a statement. [197684]
Mr. McNulty: South West Trains (SWT) was not required to advise the Strategic Rail Authority (SRA) of the dates of its consultation. SWT provided the SRA with a summary of the responses to its consultation between April and May 2004 and a copy has been placed in the Libraries of the House.
Thameslink 2000
Mr. Dismore: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport if he will make a statement on the future of the Thameslink 2000 project. [198136]
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Mr. McNulty: This project requires a number of different statutory approvals from the Department and from the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister. Following a public inquiry between June 2000 and May 2001 decisions were deferred pending the resolution of three issues identified by the Inspector relating to deficiencies in the design of the scheme in central London.
Now that Network Rail has submitted further planning and listed building consent applications to address those issues, we are considering with ODPM whether to re-open the earlier inquiry and, if so, what its scope should be.
Train Operating Companies
Mr. Marshall: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport how much compensation has been paid to each train operating company in each of the last five years. [197650]
Mr. McNulty: The payments that are made to train operating companies (TOCs) are franchise payments in accordance with their contracts. Net franchise payments to TOCs are published in the Strategic Rail Authority's annual reports, copies of which are in the Libraries of the House.
TransPennine Express
Mr. Grogan: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport how much public subsidy was provided to the operator of the TransPennine Express franchise in each year since it was originally granted; and what the (a) punctuality and (b) reliability figures were for the operator of the TransPennine Express franchise in each of these years. [198786]
Mr. McNulty: The TransPennine Express franchise commenced on 1 February 2004. Details of the subsidy payments made and due to be made to each train operating company are presented in the Strategic Rail Authority's (SRA's) Annual Reports. Punctuality and reliability figures are presented in the SRA's Quarterly National Rail Trends. Copies of both documents are in the Libraries of the House.
Unstaffed Stations
Mr. Grogan: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what requirements on franchisees to communicate information on delays to trains to passengers waiting at unstaffed train stations are planned. [198782]
Mr. McNulty:
All franchised train operators are required by their franchise agreements to provide passengers with accurate and timely information about delays, cancellations and disruptions. Most have installed public address systems to enable this information to be provided to passengers waiting at unstaffed stations. Where these are not provided, telephone information points are available at the stations which enable passengers to ask the nearest control centre for information about train running.
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TREASURY
Cancer
Mr. Hoyle: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how many people are suffering from cancer in (a) Chorley and (b) the North West. [198936]
Mr. Timms: The information requested falls within the responsibility of the National Statistician, who has been asked to reply.
Letter from Len Cook to Mr. Lindsay Hoyle, dated 17 November 2004:
As National Statistician, I have been asked to reply to your recent question concerning how many people are suffering from cancer in (a) Chorley and (b) North West. (198936)
Figures on the number of people suffering from cancer at any point in time are not routinely calculated for England as a whole, or for areas within England. Available figures relate to newly diagnosed cases in each year and are for England and Government Office Regions only. The latest available figures are for the year 2001. These were published in "Cancer statistics: registrations, England 2001. Series MB1 no.32. London: The Stationery Office, 2004" on the National Statistics website at: http://www.statistics.gov.uk/downloads/theme_health/MB1_32.pdf
There were 32,533 newly diagnosed cases of cancer in the North West in 2001 (based on International Classification of Diseases Tenth Revision codes C00-C97 excluding C44).
European Social Chapter
Keith Vaz: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what the breakdown is by sector of the change in numbers of jobs in the United Kingdom since the UK adopted the European Social Chapter. [198855]
Mr. Timms: The information requested falls within the responsibility of the National Statistician, who has been asked to reply.
Letter from Len Cook to Mr. Keith Vaz, dated 17 November 2004:
As National Statistician, I have been asked to reply to your recent Parliamentary Question about change in numbers of jobs in the UK since the UK adoption of the social chapter, by sector. (198855)
The UK signed-up to the social chapter on 2nd October 1997, following its endorsement of the Treaty of Amsterdam. On 1st May 1999, it came into force having been ratified by all the member States.
The attached table shows the information requested, relating to change in jobs by sector, between the closest data reference points to these dates, September 1997 and June 1999, and the latest data reference point, June 2004.
Source:
Workforce jobs
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