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Road Traffic Officers
Mr. Peter Robinson: To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland how many road traffic officers are stationed in each Police Service of Northern Ireland district. [19576]
Mr. Woodward: Roads Policing Officers are attached to the Regional Operational Command Units (OCU), not District Command Units (DCU).
These officers are deployed across all DCUs on an intelligence led basis to support DCUs in policing the roads, with the primary aim of reducing the number of persons killed or seriously injured.
The numbers attached to each OCU are:
| Full-time equivalents | |
|---|---|
| Rural Region OCU | 133.75 |
| Urban Region OCU | 117.75 |
School Transport
Mr. Peter Robinson: To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland how much was spent on transport provided for children travelling to and from each school in Northern Ireland in the last year for which figures are available. [19577]
Angela E. Smith: The requested information is not held in respect of individual schools. However in the 2004–05 financial year a total of £64 million was spent on school transport. The expenditure in each Board area was as follows:
| Board area | £ million |
|---|---|
| Belfast | 4.425 |
| North-Eastern | 16.806 |
| South-Eastern | 13.285 |
| Southern | 16.367 |
| Western | 13.167 |
| Total | 64.05 |
Mr. Peter Robinson: To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland how many school children use school funded transport to travel to and from maintained schools. [19578]
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Angela E. Smith: The most recent figures available from Education and Library Boards for the 2004–05 academic year indicate that a total of 97,791 pupils were eligible for transport assistance. The breakdown of providers is:
| Number | |
|---|---|
| Translink | 53,134 |
| ELB fleet | 27,880 |
| Privately operated services | 16,777 |
| Total | 97,791 |
Seat Belts
Mr. Peter Robinson: To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland what is the (a) minimum and (b) maximum (i) fine and (ii) penalty points issued for not wearing a seat belt in Northern Ireland. [19452]
Mr. Woodward:
Failure to wear a seatbelt is in the main dealt with by issue of a Non-Endorsable Fixed
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Penalty Notice, attracting a fine of £30. Should the recipient opt to have the matter heard at court, the maximum possible fine is £500. These fines do not attract penalty points.
Mr. Peter Robinson: To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland how many people in Northern Ireland were stopped for not wearing their seat belts, in each of the last three years, broken down by district; and which type of fine was imposed upon each individual. [19453]
Mr. Woodward: An overall figure for the number of people stopped is not available as the Police Service of Northern Ireland does not maintain a record of those who were warned or given advice. Enforcement activity in respect of failure to wear seatbelts is largely by way of non-endorsable fixed penalty notices and figures in relation to this are provided in the following tables. Figures relating to prosecutions for failure to wear a seatbelt are not available for 2002 and 2003, however I can confirm that the number of prosecutions in 2004 was 1,756.
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