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Special Educational Needs: Essex
Bob Spink: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how many children with statements of special needs attended mainstream secondary schools in Essex in each of the last five years. [178818]
Kevin Brennan: The information requested is given in the following table:
| Number of children with statements of special needs attending mainstream secondary school—Essex local authority: 2003-07, January each year | |
| Number( 1) | |
| (1) Figures rounded to nearest 10. Note: Includes middle schools as deemed. Source: School Census 2003-07 | |
Bob Spink: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how many children in Essex received statements of special needs in each of the last five years. [178819]
Kevin Brennan: The information requested is given in the following table:
| Number of children receiving statements of special needs—Essex local authority, 2002-06 | |
| Number | |
| Source: SEN 2 Survey 2002-06 | |
Transport
Christmas
Anne Milton: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport how much her Department’s agencies spent on (a) Christmas cards and (b) postage of Christmas cards in each year since 1997. [182448]
Jim Fitzpatrick: I refer the hon. Member to my replies given on 11 December 2007, Official Report, columns 419-20W and 14 January 2008, Official Report, column 837W. It is not possible to provide information before 2002 when the Department for Transport was established.
Cycling: Norfolk
Dr. Gibson: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport how many miles of cycling track have been developed in each of the last five years in (a) Norfolk and (b) Norwich. [182100]
Ms Rosie Winterton: Norfolk county council provided the following information on cycle tracks for Norfolk for the last five years. We do not hold any data on Norwich.
| Cycle tracks (kilometres) | |
Departmental Data Protection
Mrs. Villiers: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what minimum demonstrable security standards are required by her Department of an outside organisation before it is allowed to handle personal information. [176938]
Jim Fitzpatrick: The Department and its agencies are required to follow the principles of the Department’s procurement manual. The general terms and conditions, as set out in the procurement manual, for the procurement of services from outside organisations, require the contractors to comply with the Data Protection Act. In the case of contracts where the processing of personal data is a key part of the service to be provided (i.e. where the contractor will act as our ‘data processor’) tenderers are required to provide specific guarantees about the technical and organisational security measures they have in place to ensure compliance with the seventh principle of the Data Protection Act, which if they are successful should form part of the contract. The general terms and conditions also set out a general duty of care for contractors.
The Department and its agencies set additional security standards on a case by case basis during the procurement process depending on the nature of the service to be provided.
Departmental E-mails
Mr. Jenkins: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport if she will take steps to reduce the number of hard copies of emails printed by officials in her Department. [179464]
Jim Fitzpatrick: The Department for Transport is in the process of updating its guidance to staff on the printing of e-mails along the lines of “Think before you print” and double side if you need to print. Additionally, e-mails issued through the departmental system will carry a footer note reminding the recipient to think whether they need to print. The Department has also recently commissioned a study to explore the potential rationalisation of printers, which will contribute towards the attainment of sustainability targets.
The Department for Transport’s agencies already have in place “print only essential e-mails” guidance for their staff and when printing is necessary to ensure it is double sided wherever possible. They also promote the use of the “print preview” option to reduce the number of printed e-mails.
There is a continuous improvement target of reducing paper usage incorporated into environmental management systems where they exist across the Department.
Departmental Recycling
Mr. Jenkins: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what weight of paper her Department recycled in each of the last five years. [179453]
Jim Fitzpatrick: Paper recycling is not a specific target under Sustainable Operation on the Government Estate (SOGE); therefore not all areas of the Department for Transport have this detail recorded. However, for those sites that have recorded data, which happen to be the main sites within the department, the figures for the last five years are as follows:
| Quantity (tonnes) | |
Emergency Services: Accidents
Norman Baker: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport how many accidents have occurred involving blue light vehicles from the (a) police force, (b) fire service and (c) ambulance service in each of the last five years; and how many (i) deaths and (ii) serious injuries resulted from accidents in each such category. [183666]
Jim Fitzpatrick: The numbers of reported personal injury road accidents involving vehicles from (a) the police force, (b) the fire service and (c) the ambulance service and the number of resulting fatalities and seriously injured casualties in each of the last five years are shown in the following tables:
| (a) Number of accidents/casualties—police force | |||
| Accidents | Fatalities | Seriously injured casualties | |
| (b) Number of accidents/casualties—fire service | |||
| Accidents | Fatalities | Seriously injured casualties | |
| (c) Number of accidents/casualties—ambulance service | |||
| Accidents | Fatalities | Seriously injured casualties | |
Kent
Dr. Ladyman: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what funds in the form of (a) revenue payments, (b) capital grants and (c) supported borrowing for which her Department is responsible have been made available to (i) Kent county council, (ii) Thanet district council and (iii) Dover district council in 2007-08. [183063]
Ms Rosie Winterton: The Department is providing the following revenue grants to Kent county council in 2007-08:
| Grant | Amount (£) |
In addition it has contributed half of the revenue funding for school travel advisers totalling £189,000 and paid to Kent by Department for Communities and Local Government in area-based grant. It also contributed £95,500 for walking to school initiatives to the Department for Children, Schools and Families schools standards fund, which DCSF paid to Kent county council for onward transmission to schools, it also funds Sustrans to manage the 2007-08 Links to Schools programme and Kent county council has been allocated £40,000 for 2007-08.
Most revenue funding support for day to day transport services (such as highways maintenance, supporting bus services and concessionary fares) is included in the revenue support grant for Kent county, Thanet district and Dover district councils, administered by CLG.
The Department has made the following capital allocations funded by supported borrowing and direct capital grants available to Kent county council in 2007-08:
| £000 | ||
| Direct capital grant | Supported borrowing | |
The Department has not allocated funding to Thanet or Dover district councils in 2007-08.
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