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Cars: Fuels

Norman Baker: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what percentage change there has been in the
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average fuel efficiency of cars sold in England in each year since 1997. [178134]

Jim Fitzpatrick: The annual changes in grammes-per-kilometre carbon dioxide emissions and litres-per-100-kilometres fuel consumption are as follows:

	Average new car CO 2 (g/km)	Annual percentage change	Cumulative percentage change	Fuel consumption (1/100km)	Annual percentage change	Cumulative percentage change
1997	190	—	0.0	7.96	—	0.0
1998	188	-0.7	-0.7	7.91	-0.6	-0.6
1999	185	-1.8	-2.5	7.78	-1.6	-2.3
2000	181	-2.2	-4.6	7.61	-2.2	-4.4
2001	178	-1.7	-6.2	7.44	-2.2	-6.5
2002	175	-1.8	-7.9	7.26	-2.4	-8.8
2003	173	-1.2	-9.0	7.14	-1.7	-10.3
2004	171	-0.8	-9.7	7.03	-1.5	-11.7
2005	170	-0.9	-10.6	6.93	-1.4	-12.9
2006	168	-1.2	-11.6	6.84	-1.3	-14.1
2007	(1)165	(1)-1.4	(1)-13.1	(1)6.71	(1)-1.9	(1)-15.7
(1 )2007 figures for g/km CO2 emissions come from the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders. Those for fuel consumption in 2007 are extrapolated from the SMMT figures.

Christmas

Mr. Burns: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport how much her Department spent on (a) Christmas cards and (b) postage of Christmas cards in 2007. [176909]

Jim Fitzpatrick: The information is as follows.

Christmas cards 2007
£
	(a) Cards	(b) Postage
Central Department	1,737	Not recorded
Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA)	4,126	Not recorded
Driving Standards Agency	2,200	462
Maritime and Coastguard Agency	No card	—
Vehicle and Operator Services Agency	No card	—
Vehicle Certification Agency	No card	—
Government Car and Despatch Agency	No card	—
Highways Agency	No card	—
Note: Costs include VAT.

In the central Department and DVLA it is not possible to separate out postage costs from normal mail, but where postage is paid the policy is to mainly use second class.

David Abrahams

Chris Huhne: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport whether she and her predecessor have met (a) Mr. David Abrahams and (b) representatives of Mr. Abrahams' companies since 2004. [171168]

Jim Fitzpatrick: My right hon. Friends the Secretary of State and her predecessors have not attended meetings in their official capacity since 2004 with Mr. David Abrahams or representatives of companies registered to Mr Abrahams.

Departmental Marketing

Mr. Pickles: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport how many branded plastic bags her Department has purchased in the last 24 months for which figures are available; and at what cost. [176370]

Jim Fitzpatrick: Two of the Executive agencies—the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency and the Maritime Coastguard Agency—have procured plastic bags for use in exhibitions and campaigns. Numbers procured and expenditure in financial year 2005-06 totalled 40,000 bags at a cost of £5,314. Figures for 2006-07, were 95,400 bags at a cost of £14,486.

A further 6,650 bags costing £731 have been procured by the Department over the last three financial years to package posters for the ‘Arrive Alive’ child road safety campaign.

The Department and Executive Agencies are reviewing their practices on the purchase of bags used to facilitate the dissemination of information in campaigns and at exhibitions, following the Prime Minister's 19 November announcement that we should phase out single-use bags altogether, in favour of long-lasting and more sustainable alternatives.

Departmental Pay

Sarah Teather: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport pursuant to the answer of 13 December 2007, Official Report, column 788W, on departmental pay, how many of those earning over £100,000 were employed (a) as special advisers and (b) in a political role in each year since 2003. [177174]

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Jim Fitzpatrick: Since 2003, the Government have published on an annual basis the number of special advisers in each pay band. For the most recent information, I refer the hon. Member to the statement made by my right hon. Friend, the Prime Minister on 22 November 2007, Official Report, columns 147-50WS.

Departmental Public Expenditure

Mr. Letwin: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport pursuant to the Winter Supplementary Estimates (HC 29), if she will break down her
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Department's (a) main estimate and (b) winter supplementary estimate provision by subhead in (i) near cash and (ii) non-cash terms. [174994]

Jim Fitzpatrick: Near-cash and non-cash are essentially used as departmental expenditure limit (DEL) budgetary control concepts and are not specifically identified with voted resources in estimates. However, we have been able to break down net total resources for each section in the Part II: Subhead detail table of our Main and Winter Supplementary Estimates as follows:

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£000
		Main estimate 2007-08			Winter Supplementary 2007-08
Section	Section title	Near cash	Non cash	Total	Near cash	Non cash	Total
A	Ports and shipping services	15,036	1,353	16,389	13,985	1,353	15,338
B	Maritime and Coastguard Agency	113,279	6,828	120,107	113,449	6,828	120,277
C	Aviation services	17,258	4,507	21,765	17,225	4,507	21,732
D	Transport security and royal travel	18,700	0	18,700	26,215	46	26,261
E	Highways Agency	1,364,097	600,038	1,964,135	1,364,097	600,038	1,964,135
F	Publicity and advice	19,997	0	19,997	19,997	0	19,997
G	Research	36,998	1,570	38,568	28,055	2,570	30,625
H	Statistics, censuses and surveys	13,262	216	13,478	11,071	216	11,287
1	Consultancies and other services for roads and local transport	5,799	0	5,799	10,389	0	10,389
J	Mobility and Inclusion Unit	4,902	61	4,963	5,961	61	6,022
K	Strategic Transport Studies	1,500	0	1,500	1,500	0	1,500
L	Railways	3,523,886	12,250	3,536,136	3,865,413	-7,650	3,857,763
M	Commission for Integrated Transport	1,500	0	1,500	1,500	0	1,500
N	Freight Grants	22,608	0	22,608	25,508	0	25,508
O	Bus Service Operator Grant	417,300	0	417,300	413,521	0	413,521
P	Vehicle Excise Duty enforcement	-34,450	0	-34,450	-300	0	-300
Q	Vehicle Certification Agency enforcement	1,300	0	1,300	1,300	0	1,300
R	Vehicle Certification Agency	-248	360	112	-248	360	112
S	Powershift and CleanUp	18,000	0	18,000	18,000	0	18,000
T	Dartford River Crossing	-67,000	0	-67,000	-67,000	0	-67,000
U	Driving Standards Agency trading fund	-540	335	-205	-1,740	935	-805
V	Vehicle and Operator Services Agency trading fund	-2,393	1,152	-1,241	-3,693	2,852	-841
W	Vehicle and Operator Services Agency enforcement	11,421	0	11,421	17,721	0	17,721
X	Central Administration	160,252	20,464	180,716	189,228	20,418	209,646
Y	Trans-European network payments for transport projects (net)	3	0	3	3	0	3
Z	Driver, Vehicle and Operator Group central (including loan pool)	0	0	0	0	0	0
AA	Other River Crossings	-16,001	16,001	0	-16,001	27,001	11,000
AB	Haulage efficiency and modernisation projects	2,000	0	2,000	2,000	0	2,000
AC	Government Car and Despatch Agency	-1,526	1,526	0	-1,526	1,526	0
AD	GLA Transport Grant (resource)	2,375,970	0	2,375,970	2,396,500	0	2,396,500
AE	Other Transport Grants (resource)	567,449	0	567,449	562,284	0	562,284
AF	Other Transport Grants (capital)	1,045,506	0	1,045,506	1,086,183	0	1,086,183
AG	Highways Agency	45,138	3,400,786	3,445,924	45,138	3,400,786	3,445,924
AH	Grant-in-Aid funding of NDPB's and PC's	182,700	0	182,700	182,700	0	182,700
AI	Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (trading fund)	228,508	0	228,508	228,508	0	228,508
	Total	10,092,211	4,067,447	14,159,658	10,556,943	4,061,847	14,618,790

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