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Plymouth, Devonport

Plymouth, Sutton

Portsmouth, North

Portsmouth, South

Reading, East

Reading, West

Reigate

Romsey

St. Ives

Salisbury

Slough

Somerton and Frome

Southampton, Itchen

South-East Cornwall

South-West Devon

Stroud

Surrey Heath

Swansea, West

Taunton

Teignbridge

Tewkesbury

Tiverton and Honiton

Torbay

Torridge and West Devon

Totnes

Truro and St. Austell

Uxbridge

Wansdyke

Wantage

Westbury

Weston-super-Mare

West Worcestershire

Windsor

Witney

Woking

Wokingham

Woodspring

Worcester

East Worthing and Shoreham

Yeovil

Mrs. Villiers: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport pursuant to her written ministerial statement of 26 February 2008, Official Report, columns 73-4WS, on First Great Western franchise, (1) whether First Great Western will continue to report every month to her on its 40-point Recovery Plan; [191746]

(2) whether First Great Western will report every month to her Department on its Joint Improvement Plan. [191747]

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Mr. Tom Harris: First Great Western will continue to report each four-week period on the outcomes of its performance improvement activities. All franchised train operating companies provide a four-weekly report on the outcomes of their Joint Performance Improvement Plans.

Great Western Trains: Passengers

Mrs. Villiers: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport pursuant to her Written Ministerial Statement of 26 February 2008, Official Report, columns 73-4WS, on First Great Western franchise, what her assessment is of passenger satisfaction on the First Great Western line. [191714]

Mr. Tom Harris: First Great Western recorded the highest level of passenger dissatisfaction as measured by the National Passenger Survey for autumn 2007.

Mrs. Villiers: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport pursuant to her Written Ministerial Statement of 26 February 2008, Official Report, columns 73-4WS, on First Great Western franchise, whether she has required First Great Western to consult passengers on the targets and requirements of their Remedial Plan. [191715]

Mr. Tom Harris: The Secretary of State has not required First Great Western to consult passengers on the targets and requirements of the Remedial Plan. However, the Secretary of State looks to First Great Western to consult passengers when developing its proposals for detailed implementation of the Passenger Benefits Package.

Heathrow Airport

Mrs. Villiers: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport whether she plans to conduct an assessment of the impact on the UK economy of her plans for a third runway at Heathrow. [194008]

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Jim Fitzpatrick: A draft Heathrow impact assessment is set out at Annex B, ‘Adding Capacity at Heathrow Airport Consultation Document’.

Heathrow Airport: Disclosure of Information

Mrs. Villiers: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport if she will consolidate the technical reports released in conjunction with Adding Capacity at Heathrow Airport into a single document for publication. [194038]

Jim Fitzpatrick: During the consultation, a CD was available which contained all the consultation documents, including the technical documents. However, we have no plans to consolidate the 14 technical reports into one publication.

Heathrow Airport: Tourism

Mrs. Villiers: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what estimate she has made of the likely economic impact of Heathrow expansion on UK tourism. [194004]

Jim Fitzpatrick: An assessment of the possible impact of additional Heathrow capacity on tourism is set out in the “Adding Capacity at Heathrow Airport Consultation Document, Annex B: Impact Assessment (para 2.43 - 2.47)”.

Humber Bridge

Mr. Graham Stuart: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport how many times car journeys have been made across the Humber bridge in each of the last 10 years; and if she will make a statement. [193741]

Ms Rosie Winterton: The Humber bridge is the responsibility of the Humber Bridge Board, which is made up from members of the Humberside local authorities. The Humber Bridge Board publishes traffic statistics on its website:

http://www.humberbridge.co.uk/trafficstatistics.php

The latest figures taken from this website are:

Class	1998-99	1999-2000	2000-01	2001-02	2002-03	2003-04	2004-05	2005-06	2006-07	Total to date
1	53,289	64,680	66,871	70,217	72,856	70,989	66,782	64,140	67,751	1,445,181
2	5,107,144	5,101,163	4,914,832	5,074,899	5,310,783	5,391,743	5,476,259	5,486,438	5,550,908	112,363,534
3	180,002	172,880	157,489	157,144	164,520	164,571	167,960	161,362	156,025	4,027,578
4	152,679	150,352	142,850	130,969	128,568	121,891	117,430	120,148	115,138	3,854,933
5	31,222	31,350	28,421	31,915	31,132	28,068	26,826	25,678	25,572	804,644
6	269,432	271,528	250,205	259,485	274,402	262,180	258,514	274,246	274,427	5,988,192
Exempt	207,994	212,839	212,097	229,445	234,410	266,089	270,399	290,818	295,320	4,186,182
Total	6,001,762	6,004,792	5,772,765	5,954,074	6,216,671	6,305,531	6,384,170	6,422,830	6,485,141	132,670,244
Notes: Class 1: Motorcycles. Class 2: Cars and light vans up to 3.5 tonne gross weight. Motor caravans. Class 3: Light vans up to 7.5 tonne gross weight. Vehicles in class 2 above with trailer. Small buses (seating for 9-16 passengers). Class 4: HGV—2 axles. Large buses (seating for 17+). Class 5: HGV—3 axles. Class 6: HGV—4+ axles.

Itis Holdings

Mr. Pickles: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport pursuant to the Answer to the hon. Member for Bromley of 20 February 2008, Official Report, column 735W, on Itis Holdings, what the (a) date and (b) purpose was of each payment made to Itis Holdings between 1 February 2005 and 31 January 2008, broken down by source of payment. [194381]

Jim Fitzpatrick [holding answer 14 March 2008]: The date, purpose and source of the payments made by the Department of Transport and its agencies to Itis Holdings Ltd. between 1 February 2005 and 31 January 2008 is as follows:

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Date of payment	Purpose/description	Payment made by:
16 March 2005	January 2005 data for DfT(C)	DfT(C)
30 March 2005	February 2005 data for DfT(C)	DfT(C)
30 March 2005	January 2005 data for HA	DfT(C)
16 May 2005	March 2005 data for DfT(C), February and March data for HA	DfT(C)
11 July 2005	May 2005 data for DfT(C)	DfT(C)
11 July 2005	April and May data for HA	DfT(C)
11 July 2005	April 2005 data for DfT(C)	DfT(C)
1 September 2005	June 2005 data for DfT(C)	DfT(C)
1 September 2005	June 2005 data for HA	DfT(C)
21 September 2005	July 2005 data for DfT(C) and HA	DfT(C)
7 November 2005	August 2005 data for DfT(C) and HA	DfT(C)
16 December 2005	September 2005 data for DfT(C) and HA	DfT(C)
16 December 2005	October 2005 data for HA	DfT(C)
16 December 2005	October 2005 data for DfT(C)	DfT(C)
22 February 2006	December 2005 data for DfT(C)	DfT(C)
22 February 2006	December 2005 data for HA	DfT(C)
22 February 2006	November 2005 data for HA	DfT(C)
22 February 2006	November 2005 data for DfT(C)	DfT(C)
21 March 2006	January 2006 data for DfT(C) and HA	DfT(C)
11 April 2006	February 2006 data for DfT(C)	DfT(C)
11 April 2006	February 2006 data for HA	DfT(C)
12 June 2006	March 2006 data for DfT(C)	DfT(C)
12 June 2006	March 2006 data for HA	DfT(C)
19 June 2006	April 2006 data for DfT(C) and HA	DfT(C)
17 July 2006	May 2006 data for DfT(C) and HA	DfT(C)
14 August 2006	June 2006 data for DfT(C) and HA	DfT(C)
12 September 2006	July 2006 data for DfT(C) and HA	DfT(C)
25 October 2006	August 2006 data for DfT(C) and HA	DfT(C)
8 November 2006	September 2006 data for DfT(C) and HA	DfT(C)
5 January 2007	October 2006 data for DfT(C) and HA	DfT(C)
17 January 2007	November 2006 data for DfT(C) and HA	DfT(C)
16 January 2007	Origin Destination Study for HA	HA
21 February 2007	December 2006 data for DfT(C) and HA	DfT(C)
21 March 2007	January 2007 data for DfT(C) and HA	DfT(C)
4 May 2007	February 2007 data for DfT(C) and HA	DfT(C)
25 May 2007	March 2007 data for DfT(C) and HA	DfT(C)
4 July 2007	April 2007 data for DfT(C) and HA	DfT(C)
30 July 2007	May 2007 data for DfT(C) and HA	DfT(C)
22 August 2007	June 2007 data for DfT(C) and HA	DfT(C)
26 September 2007	July 2007 data for DfT(C) and HA	DfT(C)
19 November 2007	August 2007 data for DfT(C) and HA	DfT(C)
10 December 2007	October 2007 data for DfT(C) and HA	DfT(C)
22 January 2008	November 2007 data for DfT(C) and HA	DfT(C)
Notes: 1. Data (as in January 2005 data for DfT(C)) refers to Global Positioning System (GPS) location data, used for congestion monitoring; 2. HA is the Highways Agency and DfT(C) is the central Department for Transport.

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