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Road Safety

Mr. McGrady: To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland if he will move responsibility for all road safety measures in Northern Ireland into one Department; and if he will make a statement. [33534]

Angela E. Smith: The Northern Ireland Road Safety Strategy 2002 to 2012 provides an integrated approach to the planning, co-ordination and delivery of Government's road safety activities and it requires the three main statutory bodies with responsibility for road safety in Northern Ireland (the Department of the Environment, the Department for Regional Development's Roads Service and the Police Service of Northern Ireland) to work together closely in partnership.
 
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A road safety steering group, comprising senior management from each of the three partners, is responsible for coordinating delivery of the strategy and ensuring cohesive and complementary education, enforcement and engineering road safety activities.

These partnership arrangements are working well and are making a significant contribution to casualty reductions and there are no plans at this time to change this approach.

Road Maintenance

Mr. Gregory Campbell: To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland what the Department for Regional Development Roads maintenance budget expenditure in (a) Limavady and (b) Coleraine borough council areas was in each of the last three years. [38955]

Mr. Woodward: The chief executive of Roads Service (Dr. Malcolm McKibbin) has been asked to write to the hon. Gentleman in response to this question.

Letter from Dr. Malcolm McKibbin, dated 12 January 2006:


£000

Summary2002–032003–042004–05
Limavady2,6363,5553,156
Coleraine3,7405,1673,960

School Transport Costs

Sammy Wilson: To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland what the administration costs of transport were in each Education and Library Board in each of the last five years. [40836]

Angela E. Smith: The information requested is not available in the required format prior to 2002–03. The Education and Library Boards have, however, incurred the following expenditure in each of the last three years in relation to the administration of the home to school transport service:
BELBNEELBSEELBSELBWELBTotal
2002–03170,000195,000252,000196,000429,1571,242,157
2003–04223,000231,000236,879367,000350,9791,221,858
2004–05194,000256,000178,000493,000410,7081,531,708

Sammy Wilson: To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland what the cost of home to school transport was in each of the Education and Library Boards in each of the last five years, broken down by (a) board vehicles, (b) translink, (c) taxi hire, (d) mini-buses, (e) bus escorts and (f) other costs. [40837]

Angela E. Smith: The information requested is only available in the required format for the past three years. Also, information is not held relating to the cost of providing escorts. The Education and Library Boards have, however, incurred the following expenditure in each of the last three years.
 
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Belfast Board

Board vehiclesTranslinkTaxi hirePrivate operatorsOtherTotal
2002–031,647,000827,0001,236,000307,0004,017,000
2003–042,338,000845,000952,000105,000366,0004,606,000
2004–052,268,000866,000633,000346,000312,0004,425,000

North-Eastern Board

Board vehiclesTranslinkTaxi hirePrivate operatorsOtherTotal
2002–031,926,0007,373,0001,790,0002,742,000321,00014,152,000
2003–041,996,0007,620,0002,007,0002,713,000919,00015,255,000
2004–052,328,0008,373,0002,095,0003,113,000897,00016,806,000

South-Eastern Board

Board vehiclesTranslinkTaxi hirePrivate operatorsOtherTotal
2002–031,997,0006,419,0002,108,000807,000546,00011,877,000
2003–043,058,5075,917,7922,656,528692,803547,67812,873,308
2004–052,423,0006,931,0002,216,0001,199,000516,00013,285,000

Southern Board

Board vehiclesTranslinkTaxi hirePrivate operatorsOtherTotal
2002–034,620,0005,135,0001,833,0003,030,000223,00014,841,000
2003–043,796,0005,429,0001,965,0003,150,000876,00015,216,000
2004–054,274,0005,966,0002,022,0003,140,000965,00016,367,000

Western Board

Board vehiclesTranslinkTaxi hirePrivate operatorsOtherTotal
2002–035,936,0003,731,000694,0001,175,000780,61412,316,614
2003–045,244,0003,731,000877,0001,255,000545,21911,652,219
2004–055,836,5534,340,6311,046,1921,300,316642,87213,166,564




Note:
The 'Other' category includes Strangford and Rathlin ferries, parents' car, Lough Swilly, building maintenance and administration costs.




Sammy Wilson: To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland what the cost of home-to-college transport was in each of the education and library board areas in each of the last five years. [40838]

Angela E. Smith: A detailed breakdown of the Home to College Transport spend in each education and library board, in each of the last five financial years where the information has been validated is as follows:
BELBNEELBSEELBSELBWELB
1999–2000117,694797,9871,057,7261,185,317548,000
2000–01131,844914,6721,033,8671,012,821563,941
2001–02127,404911,387688,8301,068,282617,838
2002–03106,233932,185675,9541,036,222611,289
2003–04105,832891,382662,9111,032,752690,147

Stormont Spy Ring

Mrs. Iris Robinson: To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland how many (a) police and (b) prison personnel in each parliamentary constituency were informed that they had to move from their homes following the collapse of the Stormont spy ring prosecutions. [42265]

Mr. Woodward: PSNI has advised that no police officers have applied for special purchase evacuated dwellings (SPED) as a result of the 'Stormontgate' case.
 
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The police will only advise people of threats to their personal safety and cannot force anyone to move house. The decision to apply for SPED is for the individual alone to make.

The NI Prison Service advises that a total of 451 prison officers relocated under the assisted home removal scheme. As with the PSNI, the decision to move rests solely with the individual.

Student Finance

Mark Durkan: To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland how many students will lose funding support as a result of the decision to withdraw funding for post-graduate diplomas in Northern Ireland. [39477]

Angela E. Smith: The decision to withdraw funding did not affect students already in receipt of an award.


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