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Carbon Dioxide Emissions
Mr. Redwood: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what volume of carbon dioxide is emitted per passenger kilometre by (a) low cost airlines, (b) other airlines, (c) UK buses and (d) UK mass transit systems. [110727]
Gillian Merron: I have been asked to reply.
Information on carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from aviation are not broken down by low cost and other airlines.
Data on CO2 emissions per passenger kilometre from aviation, buses and other mass transit systems (rail and tram/light rail) are shown in the following table:
| Carbon dioxide emissions by mode of transport( 1) | |
| Mode | Grams of CO 2 per passenger km |
| (1) Data for air and rail are available in annex 6 of DEFRA’s ‘Guidelines for Company Reporting on Greenhouse Gas Emissions’ (July 2005). (2) ‘Long haul’ refers to average journeys of 5,000nm and ‘short haul’ refers to journeys of 500nm. (3) The tram and light rail estimate is an average for the Docklands Light Rail, Croydon Tramlink and Manchester Metrolink. Source: AEA Energy and Environment. | |
Care Homes
Daniel Kawczynski: To ask the Secretary of State for Health if she will provide free care home care for the elderly in England. [110322]
Mr. Ivan Lewis: About 70 per cent, of care home residents aged 65 and over have all or part of their care publicly funded. However, as a universal entitlement, free care-home care is neither affordable nor desirable in the context of finite resources. None of the billions of pounds needed to make care in a care-home free would increase the choice or quality of care homes or support improvements to social care provision.
Our policy is to focus finite social care resources on measures to increase service users’ independence and choice, through things such as direct payments and enabling people to be cared for in their own homes where the overwhelming majority of people want to be.
Care Workers
Mr. Lansley: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what assessment she has made of the extent to which (a) adult and (b) child social care workers have been subjected to physical or verbal abuse in the most recent period for which figures are available. [115016]
Mr. Ivan Lewis: Neither the Department (for adult services) nor the Department for Education and Skills (for children) keep data on the number of incidents of physical and verbal abuse against social workers. Social workers are employed by local councils, and by service providers in the private and voluntary sectors, and it is for those employers to manage incidence of abuse against their staff.
The Department’s task force on violence and abuse against social workers reported in 2000, and made a number of recommendations for employers, including that they should undertake a service and training needs analysis in this respect, and put into place and implement actions plans where required. The latest data collected by the Commission for Social Care Inspection from local councils for April 2005 indicates that more than 80 per cent. of councils had completed the task force recommendations mostly or in full.
Clear Communication Consultants
Anne Main: To ask the Secretary of State for Health pursuant to the answer of 9 January 2007, Official Report, column 461W, on Clear Communications consultants, whether her Department has received any unpaid advice from Clear Communications Ltd. [115838]
Mr. Ivan Lewis: The information could be obtained only at disproportionate cost, as unremunerated information is not held in such a way that would make it possible to identify such advice separately from other correspondence issues raised.
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