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Heathrow Airport: Air Passenger Duty
Justine Greening: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport pursuant to the Adding Capacity at Heathrow Airport consultation document, Annex B Impact Assessment Options 1, 2 and 3, what amount of air passenger duty government tax revenue benefit was included as part of the key monetised benefits calculation for each option; and if she will make a statement. [179438]
Jim Fitzpatrick [holding answer 16 January 2008]: The breakdown of the monetised benefits from each option in the “Adding Capacity at Heathrow Airport” consultation document is given in table 4.3 (p79) of “UK Air Passenger Demand and CO2 Forecasts”, available at:
The following table reproduces the figures for the three consultation document options. The “government” row of this table reports the estimated additional air passenger duty expected from each option.
Network Rail: Repairs and Maintenance
Miss McIntosh: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what discussions she has had with Network Rail on its programme of engineering work over the Easter 2008 holiday period. [181953]
Mr. Tom Harris: The Government have no power to intervene in Network Rail’s operations. However, the Secretary of State met with Iain Coucher, chief executive of Network Rail, on 3 January 2008 to inform him that the disruption to rail services from the engineering over-runs over the Christmas/new year period was unacceptable; and to seek his assurance that such delays would not be repeated and that lessons will be learned.
Pedestrian Crossings
Mr. Lancaster: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport whether the PV squared formula is the recommended method for establishing whether a pedestrian crossing is required on a particular stretch of road. [182694]
Ms Rosie Winterton: There is no such criterion in the Department’s current guidance. PV(2) was superseded in 1995 by a decision framework approach in Local Transport Note 1/95, The Assessment of Pedestrian Crossings. The current guidance lists a number of parameters to be considered including the number of vehicles, speed of approach, number of pedestrians, proximity of schools, and stations. Using these in a decision framework enables local authorities to compare alternative solutions and make an objective decision as to whether a crossing is needed and which type is most suitable.
Railways
Mr. Hancock: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what recent discussions she has had regarding the operation of a rail service on each day of the year; what further discussions she plans to have; and if she will make a statement. [182378]
Mr. Tom Harris: Service provision on each day of the year is a matter for Network Rail, as the owner and operator of the national network, and the train operators.
Railways: Kent
Norman Baker: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport by what date her Department expects the Javelin-operated high speed domestic services from Kent to St. Pancras to be operational. [182552]
Mr. Tom Harris: Southeastern will begin operation of the high speed domestic services from Kent to St. Pancras in December 2009.
Railways: Radioactive Wastes
Sarah Teather: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what estimate her Department has made of the numbers of train journeys which would be required to transport nuclear waste on the commissioning of new nuclear power stations in each year; and if she will make a statement. [181920]
Jim Fitzpatrick: The Government’s White Paper on Meeting the Energy Challenge (A White Paper on Nuclear Power, January 2008) stated that new nuclear power stations built in the UK should proceed on the basis that the spent fuel will not require reprocessing. This will mean that the used nuclear fuel will be stored on the reactor site and the transport of it will be minimised during the lifetime of the reactor.
The Department for Transport therefore cannot make this estimate as information is not yet available on the number or types of reactors proposed to be built, or their locations.
Roads: Accidents
Andrew George: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport how many (a) injuries and (b) deaths there were on roads in (i) West Cornwall and Isles of Scilly constituency of St. Ives, (ii) Cornwall and (iii) the UK in each of the last 10 years. [182696]
Jim Fitzpatrick: The numbers of (a) injuries (serious or slight) and (b) deaths resulting from reported personal injury road accidents from 1997 to 2006 in (i) St. Ives parliamentary constituency, (ii) Cornwall and (iii) Great Britain are shown in the table.
| Number of casualties | ||||||
| St. Ives constituency( 1) | Cornwall | Great Britain | ||||
| Injured( 2) | Killed | Injured( 2) | Killed | Injured( 2) | Killed | |
| (1 )Based on 2004 parliamentary constituency boundaries. (2 )Serious and slight injuries. | ||||||
Andrew George:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport how many (a) injuries and (b) deaths were sustained in collisions with emergency services vehicles
on roads in (i) West Cornwall and Isles of Scilly constituency of St. Ives, (ii) Cornwall and (iii) the UK in each of the last 10 years. [182697]
Jim Fitzpatrick: The numbers of (a) injuries (serious or slight) and (b) deaths resulting from reported personal injury road accidents involving at least one emergency vehicle (ambulance, fire engine or police) from 1997 to 2006 in (i) St. Ives parliamentary constituency, (ii) Cornwall and (iii) Great Britain are shown in the table.
| Number of casualties | ||||||
| St. Ives c onstituency( 1) | Cornwall | Great Britain | ||||
| Injure d( 2) | Killed | Injured( 2) | Killed | Injured( 2) | Killed | |
| (1) Based on 2004 parliamentary constituency boundaries. (2 )Serious or slight injury. | ||||||
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