| Previous Section | Index | Home Page |
22 Nov 2007 : Column 1049W—continued
Mr. Clelland: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport pursuant to the answer of 19 November 2007, Official Report, column 461W, on motor vehicles: licensing, how many registered vehicle owners who failed to comply with a statutory off-road declaration and who failed to comply with subsequent enforcement action were consequently summonsed to appear in court. [167408]
Jim Fitzpatrick: Since the inception of Continuous Registration enforcement in March 2004 cases have no longer been settled via a magistrates court summons but via a county court claim. The volumes for both are:
| Magistrates court cases | County court claims | |
Prosecution procedures for statutory off-road notifications changed in 2004 from a criminal to a civil process.
Roads: Accidents
Matthew Taylor: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport how many road traffic accidents there were in (a) Cornwall, (b) each parliamentary constituency in Cornwall and (c) England in each year since 1979; and how many (i) injuries and (ii) deaths resulted from them in each year. [166714]
Jim Fitzpatrick: A table showing the number of reported personal injury road accidents in (a) Cornwall, (b) each parliamentary constituency in Cornwall and (c) England in each year since 1979; and the resulting (i) injured casualties and (ii) fatalities has been deposited in the Libraries of the House. The information broken down by parliamentary constituency is not available for accidents prior to 1994.
Roads: Repairs and Maintenance
Mrs. Villiers: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport how much was spent by her Department and its agencies on (a) motorway and trunk road building, (b) motorway and trunk road improvement and widening and (c) motorway and trunk road maintenance in each of the last five years. [163227]
Mr. Tom Harris: The spend in the last five years is as follows:
| £ million | |||||
| 2002-03 | 2003-04 | 2004-05 | 2005-06 | 2006-07 | |
| (1 )Spend on bypass schemes included in the Highways Agency’s programme of major schemes (schemes costing over £5 million) (2 )Spend on junction improvement and widening schemes included in the Highways Agency’s programme of major schemes (schemes costing over £5 million) (3 )Total maintenance spend by the Highways Agency | |||||
Treasury
Climate Change Levy
Gordon Banks: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what estimate he has made of the effectiveness of the Climate Change Levy in reducing carbon dioxide emissions since its introduction. [166099]
Angela Eagle [holding answer 19 November 2007]: A full assessment of the levy was published at Budget 2006. The climate change levy is estimated to have reduced emissions by a cumulative 16.5 million tonnes of carbon up to 2005 and by 2010, it is estimated to deliver savings of over 3.5 million tonnes of carbon per year.
Departmental Correspondence
Sarah Teather: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what percentage of inquiries received by his Department from the public were responded to within (a) one week, (b) 14 days, (c) 28 days, (d) two months and (e) three months; and in what percentage of cases it took (i) over three months and (ii) over one year to respond. [167375]
Angela Eagle: The Treasury aims to reply to all correspondence within 15 working days of receipt. Performance against this target is reported in the Department’s annual report and accounts.
Excise Duties: Fuels
Mr. Redwood: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer (1) what the total tax paid in the UK is on a litre of petrol selling for £1.0299; [162183]
(2) how much was raised in taxes on motoring in each year since 1997-98; [162185]
(3) what his most recent forecast is for receipts from petrol and diesel taxation in 2007-08; and what change there has been since budget forecasts. [162187]
Angela Eagle: The current fuel duty payable on a litre of petrol is 50.35p and is the total amount of tax paid by businesses that can reclaim VAT. For households and businesses that cannot reclaim VAT, it is charged as 17.5 per cent. on the sum of the pre-tax price of petrol and fuel duty.
Forecasts of receipts from fuel duties are published in “The Public Finances” chapter of the Budget and pre-Budget report (PBR). These are available on-line:
www.hm-treasury.gov.uk/media/F/9/pbr_csr07_ annexb_305.pdf
Table B8 from the latter shows changes since the Budget.
Taxes on motoring are vehicle excise duty and hydrocarbon oils duty. The revenue raised from these taxes can be found in the following sources:
Vehicle excise duty (and hydrocarbon oils duty)—the Office for National Statistics publishes revenues since 1993 (including hydrocarbon oils) at:
Hydrocarbon oils—table 3 of the Hydrocarbon Oils Bulletin published by HM Revenue and Customs contains revenues since 1997-98, available at:
HM Revenue and Customs do not collect data on other taxes (such as VAT) levied on individual goods and services (such as petrol and diesel).
Company car tax (including fuel benefit charge) is the income tax and national Insurance liability for employee and director benefits-in-kind received as cars and fuel for private use and is published from 1999-2000 by HMRC. This can be found in table 4.5 at:
Government Securities: Islam
Harry Cohen: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer when he expects to introduce a sharia-compliant government bond. [167333]
Kitty Ussher: The Treasury and Debt Management Office published a consultation document “Government Sterling Sukuk Issuance” on 14 November, with a deadline for responses of 21 February 2008. This document is available in the House Library and on the Treasury’s website at http://www.hm-treasury.gov.uk/media/6/C/consult_sukuk141107.pdf Following the consultation, the Government will consider the responses and announce a decision on the possible issuance of wholesale sterling denominated sukuk and next steps including the timetable for any primary legislation.
House Insurance: Terrorism
Mr. Brazier: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what arrangements exist to compensate households for damage to property resulting from a terrorist attack; and whether his Department has reviewed the inclusion of home insurance in the Pool Re Scheme. [164734]
Kitty Ussher: Insurance cover for domestic property damage arising from fire, explosion or impact caused by an act of terrorism is widely available. Local authorities would normally take the lead in arranging decontamination of domestic properties following a chemical, biological, radiological or nuclear incident caused by terrorist activity.
The Government have no plans to review the inclusion of domestic property insurance in the Pool Re scheme.
Office of Government Commerce
Justine Greening: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what estimate he has made of the savings made by the Office of Government Commerce as a result of implementing (a) e-commerce, (b) e-catalogues, (c) corporate cards and (d) e-auctions in each year since 2003-04; and if he will make a statement. [165219]
Angela Eagle: The following information has been provided by OGC and OGCbuying.solutions and covers each year since 2003-04.
(a) eCommerce (eSourcing savings)
The detail from those customers that have responded with savings based on an approved methodology, identifies savings for the current financial year of £1.065 million.
(b) eCatalogues (eProcurement)
Savings for the current financial year have been estimated to be £110,000.
Savings methods are still being finalised for this service which started trading in summer 2006. The service is going through a significant period of growth and we expect substantial savings to arise from 2008-09 onwards.
(c) Corporate cards (Government Procurement Cards)
The estimated process savings derived from GPC for the years indicated are as follows:
| £ | |
| Total number of auctions | Total pre -auc tion value (£) | Total saving (£) | |
In addition, OGC has operated seven collaborative reverse e-auctions since 2005 to procure IT hardware on behalf of a range of public sector organisations. Those auctions have generated estimated savings of £22.45 million.
Justine Greening: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer which of the Office of Government Commerce's contracts became shared contracts, including by sharing current contracts across central government, in each year since 2003-04; and if he will make a statement. [165220]
Angela Eagle: OGC has two contracts which are open to central government departments. These are the Financial Analysis Services Framework and Strategic Assignments Consultancy Service Framework.
In addition, OGC is working with Government departments to ensure that their contracts are open for use across Government. Wherever possible, OGC uses framework agreements and shared contracts for domestic procurements. All departments are encouraged to use existing contracts where they represent good value for money.
Justine Greening: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how many events were held by the Office of Government Commerce in each year since 2003-04; how much was spent on those events was; and if he will make a statement. [165222]
Angela Eagle: OGC holds a number of events on an annual basis. Examples of which include conferences, seminars, and workshops.
| Number of events | Cost | |
Justine Greening: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what procurement savings have been achieved by the Office of Government Commerce Buying Solutions since 2003-04; in respect of which support services they were achieved; and if he will make a statement. [165227]
Angela Eagle: OGCbuying.solutions provides customers in the public sector with a tried and tested route to the procurement of high quality, value-for-
| Performance against savings target as follows: | ||
| £ million | ||
| Target | Actual | |
| Next Section | Index | Home Page |