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Departments: Air Pollution

Mrs. May: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what recent estimate has been made of the carbon footprint of his Department. [124520]

Gillian Merron: The 2005-06 estimated carbon footprint for the Department is 50,116,258 kg/CO2. This figure includes all building emissions and travel for the Department, other than the amounts for air and rail travel for the seven DfT agencies, which are not available and could be obtained only at disproportionate cost.

There is a cross-Government target for the central Government office estate to be carbon neutral by 2012, which will require Departments to offset emissions every year from 2012 in order to achieve a balance of zero net carbon emissions.

All central Government official and ministerial air travel has been captured under offsetting schemes since April 2006, and to provide the figures for what the levels of emissions were last year from departmental air
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travel, and the anticipated cost of offsetting those emissions through the Government Carbon Offsetting Fund (GCOF).

Departments: Regeneration

Alistair Burt: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what proportion of his Department’s spending was devoted to (a) urban and (b) rural regeneration and redevelopment in (i) 2003-04, (ii) 2004-05 and (iii) 2005-06. [125891]

Gillian Merron: The proportion of the Department’s spending on urban and rural regeneration and redevelopment is not held centrally and could be provided only at disproportionate cost.

Departments: Travel

Mrs. May: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport how many miles were travelled by his Department’s (a) Ministers and (b) officials on Government business by (i) air, (ii) rail and (iii) road in 2006. [124519]

Gillian Merron: It is not currently possible to separate ministerial mileage from that incurred by officials. The figures for Ministers and officials for the financial year 2005-06 are as follows: air travel 5,641,508 miles, rail travel 3,328,585 miles, road travel 3,786,021 miles. This excludes DSA, DVLA, GCDA, HA, VGA and VOSA, who do not hold the information in the format requested.

All travel is undertaken in accordance with the Ministerial Code, Travel by Ministers and the Civil Service Management Code.

Heathrow Airport: Night Flying

Susan Kramer: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what assessment he has made of the effect of night flights to and from Heathrow airport on the London economy; and if he will make a statement. [126296]

Gillian Merron: In making its decision about the restrictions to apply to night flying at Heathrow, Gatwick and Stansted airports from October 2006 to October 2012, the Government took account of the combined effects on the national economy of night flights at these airports. There has been no separate specific consideration of the impact of night flying at Heathrow on the London economy.


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A regulatory impact assessment was published on 6 June 2006, when the Secretary of State announced the restrictions on night flying to apply at Heathrow, Gatwick and Stansted airports from October 2006. It makes a broad statement on the economic importance of night flying at the designated airports and discusses the economic evidence presented by consultees in response to the stage two consultation on the proposed restrictions. This document is on the internet at the following address:

Heathrow Airport: Passengers

Dr. Cable: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport how many of the international routes served by Heathrow airport depend for their commercial viability on transfer or transit passengers; and for which routes this is the case. [127271]

Gillian Merron: The Department for Transport does not hold this information.

London Underground

Mrs. May: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what the total capital expenditure on London Underground (LU) was in each year since 1990 during which his Department had responsibility for LU, broken down by line. [124237]

Gillian Merron: Responsibility for London Underground passed to Transport for London and the Mayor of London on 15 July 2003. Performance since then has been an operational matter for London Underground who are best placed to answer direct. London Underground does not record investment broken down by lines. However the total figures to 2002-03 are shown in the following table. In April 2000, London Underground adopted new accounting treatment for its investment expenditure which removed the category ‘investment renewals': the majority of this expenditure was reclassified as capital, although some (£90 million) became resource expenditure. Therefore the figures before and after April 2000 are not directly comparable and are presented in two separate tables with the years 1990-91 to 1999-2000 on one consistent basis and those for a restated 1999-2000 to 2005-06 are on another. It is normal accounting practice when a change in accounting treatment occurs to restate the previous year's figures on the same basis in the accounts, so that a true comparison can be made.

Investment expenditure
£ million (outturn prices)
1990-91 1991-92 1992-93 1993-94 1994-95 1995-96 1996-97 1997-98 1998-99 1999-2000

Capital

327

225

414

320

319

210

173

133

171

134

Renewals

87

70

218

159

184

275

198

191

244

208

Total core business

414

295

632

479

503

485

371

324

415

342

Jubilee line extension

40

63

68

261

396

587

660

476

283

655

CrossRail

5

12

29

45

30

16

4

Total investment

459

370

729

785

929

1,088

1,035

800

698

997


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Investment expenditure
£ million (outturn prices)
1999-2000 2000-01 2001-02 2002-03

Capital

252

293

418

402

Total core business

252

293

418

402

Jubilee line extension

655

CrossRail

Total investment

907

293

418

402


Mrs. May: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport how many (a) track and (b) signal failures there were on the London Underground (LU) in each
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year since 1990 during which his Department had responsibility for LU, broken down by line. [124244]

Gillian Merron: Responsibility for London Underground passed to Transport for London and the Mayor of London on 15 July 2003. Performance since then has been an operational matter for London Underground who are best placed to answer direct. Information on the years prior to 1996 could be provided only at disproportionate time and cost. The numbers of track and signal failures that caused more than a two minute delay for the period 1996-97 to 2002-03 are:

Signals
1996-97 1997-98 1998-99 1999-00 2000-01 2001-02 2002-03

Bakerloo

264

292

249

355

64

131

143

Central

644

880

308

335

274

554

495

District

303

269

278

394

246

500

454

East London(1)

32

52

49

Jubilee

79

110

197

338

204

354

257

Circle and Hammersmith

129

131

125

238

9

286

203

Metropolitan

209

266

194

290

267

374

353

Northern

298

323

216

317

188

357

551

Piccadilly

261

241

213

202

184

161

161

Victoria

115

166

149

131

100

308

382

Waterloo and City(2)

16

27

29

18

22

23

Total signals

2,3021

2;302

1,929

2,600

1,746

3,099

3,071


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