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Galileo

Mr. Hayes: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport if she will make a statement on final operational control arrangements for the Galileo Supervisory Authority, with particular reference to the mechanism for shutdown in time of conflict. [178205]

Ms Rosie Winterton: Galileo is a European Union programme and the European GNSS Supervisory Authority (GSA) is the EU agency that will regulate and manage the system on behalf of the Community.

Galileo will not be fully operational until 2013 at the earliest, and the final operational control arrangements within the appropriate institutional framework have yet to be decided. These arrangements are likely to be progressed during discussions on access policy for the public regulated service of Galileo, on which we expect the Commission to make proposals during 2008.

The Council of Ministers has repeatedly confirmed that Galileo is a civil programme under civil control. The operation of any navigation aid, such as Galileo, can nevertheless have security implications for member states. A Council joint action of 2004 provides that any aspects of the operation of Galileo which affect member states’ security can be referred to the Council, which would take the necessary decisions—including the option of suspending normal service—by unanimity.

Metronet

Andrew Rosindell: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what the cost has been of running Metronet since it went into administration. [176782]

Ms Rosie Winterton: In addition to their infrastructure service charge payments, the Metronet companies receive money to cover their operating deficit. The public-private partnership administrator stated in September that the net operating deficit of Metronet while in administration was £14.4 million per week, a projection of £345.5 million for six months of administration. This net operating deficit is funded by a loan provided by Transport for London.

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Much of the funding for the net operating deficit simply replaces planned Metronet borrowing which would, in due course, itself have been reflected in public accounts.

Railways

Norman Baker: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what percentage change from a 2003 baseline she has projected for (a) rail passenger and (b) rail freight mileage by (i) 2010, (ii) 2015, (iii) 2020 and (iv) 2025. [178143]

Mr. Tom Harris: The percentage change relative to 2003-04 for rail passenger miles on franchised services in England and Wales is forecast as follows:

	Percentage growth
2010-11	26
2015-16	44
2020-21	54
2025-26	70

Rail freight is a commercial business between the freight operators and Network Rail. The Department does not make forecasts of this traffic.

Norman Baker: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what recent assessment she has made of the effects of the business practices of the rolling stock companies on the operation of the rail network. [179137]

Mr. Tom Harris: The Department for Transport made a submission to the Office of Rail Regulation on 28 June 2006 requesting that it refer the market to the Competition Commission for investigation under Section 131 of the Enterprise Act 2002.

On 26 April 2007 ORR referred the leasing of rolling stock for franchised passenger services and the supply of related maintenance services to the Competition Commission. The Competition Commission issued their emerging thinking on 19 December 2007.

For further details, I would refer the hon. Member to:

www.competition-commission.org.uk/inquiries/ref2007/roscos/index.htm

Norman Baker: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what her policy is on the sale of rolling stock by rolling stock companies to overseas customers. [179139]

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Mr. Tom Harris: Rolling stock is privately owned by the rolling stock companies. Sales and rolling stock are therefore a business matter for them.

Railways: Bridges

Bill Wiggin: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what weights bridges across railway lines are required to support. [177803]

Ms Rosie Winterton: The carrying capacity of public highway bridges crossing railways is a matter for agreement between the relevant highway authority and the bridge owner (which may be the highway authority itself).

Bill Wiggin: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport how much funding her Department has provided for the (a) maintenance, (b) repair, (c) rebuilding and (d) construction of bridges across railway lines in each year since 1997; and if she will make a statement. [177804]

Ms Rosie Winterton: The Department for Transport provides funding to Network Rail, the Highways Agency and local highway authorities to support the construction and maintenance of their networks, but does not separately identify how much of this is spent on bridges crossing railways.

Railways: Freight

Norman Baker: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport (1) if she will estimate the amount of carbon emissions from (a) rail and (b) road haulage in each year since 1990 (i) per mile and (ii) in total; [178132]

(2) if she will estimate the amount of carbon emissions from rail haulage in each year since 1990. [178142]

Mr. Tom Harris: The following tables are based on data from the national atmospheric emissions inventory and Great Britain and Northern Ireland traffic censuses. It summarises carbon dioxide emissions of diesel rail haulage and heavy goods vehicles for the years requested. The tables exclude carbon dioxide emission figures for electric rail haulage and per kilometre for diesel rail haulage which are not available in the form requested.

		1990	1991	1992	1993	1994	1995	1996	1997
Diesel rail freight	CO2 emissions (kilotonnes)	636	610	616	547	517	529	600	673
HGVs	CO2 emissions (kilotonnes)	22038	20943	21015	21582	23291	23971	25360	26032
HGVs	Kt of C02 /billion km	847	817	842	849	898	899	922	924

		1998	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005
Diesel rail freight	CO2 emissions (kilotonnes)	689	724	720	772	744	752	824	824
HGVs	CO2 emissions (kilotonnes)	26245	26032	25764	25811	26732	27220	27909	28592
HGVs	Kt of C02 /billion km	898	878	862	870	883	887	889	920

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Road Traffic

Norman Baker: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what the percentage change in traffic levels (a) on English roads and (b) in each county within England was for each year since 1997, taking the 1997 levels as 100 per cent. [178130]

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Ms Rosie Winterton: The change in traffic levels for England and its constituent counties can be found in the following table. The change is shown as an index based on 1997.

Index of traffic growth by English counties( 1) (1997 = 100)
County name	1997	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006
England	100	102	104	104	106	108	109	111	111	112
Central London	100	102	102	101	98	96	95	98	98	98
Inner London excluding Central	100	100	102	102	102	102	102	101	99	101
Outer London	100	101	104	104	104	105	105	104	105	106
Avon	100	102	105	106	108	111	112	114	115	115
Bedfordshire	100	103	104	103	104	108	110	113	113	111
Berkshire	100	102	104	105	106	109	108	108	108	109
Buckinghamshire	100	102	106	109	110	111	111	110	110	111
Cambridgeshire	100	101	104	104	106	107	109	111	111	112
Cheshire	100	102	104	105	106	106	108	110	110	113
Cleveland	100	101	104	104	106	109	110	111	110	112
Cornwall	100	101	101	102	105	110	113	115	116	117
Cumbria	100	101	102	103	102	106	107	109	109	110
Derbyshire	100	102	103	100	103	104	107	109	109	110
Devon	100	102	102	103	105	109	109	112	113	114
Dorset	100	102	105	105	106	109	110	110	112	113
Durham	100	102	104	104	106	110	111	113	114	117
East Sussex	100	102	103	103	105	107	109	111	111	112
Essex	100	101	104	104	106	107	108	110	110	112
Gloucestershire	100	101	105	106	108	110	112	114	115	117
Greater Manchester	100	102	104	104	107	111	111	114	112	112
Hampshire	100	102	104	105	108	111	111	113	113	114
Hereford and Worcester	100	102	105	105	105	109	108	109	110	113
Hertfordshire	100	101	102	101	103	106	105	107	106	106
Humberside	100	101	104	103	105	109	110	113	113	114
Isle of Wight	100	100	101	103	104	108	110	111	110	114
Kent	100	102	104	106	108	111	112	114	114	115
Lancashire	100	102	104	103	105	108	108	112	112	113
Leicestershire	100	103	106	105	107	110	111	113	113	113
Lincolnshire	100	102	104	105	106	110	112	114	116	117
Merseyside	100	101	102	104	105	109	109	110	112	113
Norfolk	100	102	103	104	106	109	110	112	114	115
North Yorkshire	100	102	103	102	105	108	109	112	114	119
Northamptonshire	100	103	107	107	109	114	118	120	118	120
Northumberland	100	101	105	104	107	109	110	114	114	117
Nottinghamshire	100	101	104	103	104	107	109	111	111	114
Oxfordshire	100	102	104	105	106	110	108	110	110	111
Shropshire	100	102	103	103	106	109	109	111	112	113
Somerset	100	102	104	104	107	110	111	113	114	117
South Yorkshire	100	103	104	105	107	111	111	115	115	116
Staffordshire	100	101	103	103	105	107	109	112	115	116
Suffolk	100	101	103	103	105	107	109	110	110	111
Surrey	100	104	104	103	106	107	107	108	107	108
Tyne and Wear	100	101	103	103	105	108	109	110	110	110
Warwickshire	100	103	102	103	105	106	106	110	111	114
West Midlands	100	102	103	103	103	107	107	108	108	108
West Sussex	100	103	105	106	107	108	109	111	111	111
West Yorkshire	100	103	103	104	105	107	107	109	109	112
Wiltshire	100	103	103	103	104	107	109	109	112	113
(1) The counties are based on the pre-1997 boundaries.

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