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Written Answers to Questions

Monday 23 June 2008

Transport

Aviation

Mr. Hoban: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport pursuant to the Written Ministerial Statement of 26 March 2008, Official Report, columns 11-12WS, on Royal and Ministerial air travel, what the cost will be of the small aircraft for official travel within the UK. [211872]

Jim Fitzpatrick: Following the Department’s approval for the acquisition of a small fixed wing aircraft, the royal household are currently conducting an evaluation exercise (including costings) in preparation for the issue of tender documentation for issue later this year.

Departmental Marketing

Mr. Philip Hammond: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport how much her Department and its agencies spent on branding and marketing activity in 2007-08. [212048]

Jim Fitzpatrick: Expenditure by the Department for Transport and Executive agencies was as follows:

	£
DFT Central	26,700,000
Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency	10,400,000
Highways Agency	1,600,000
Maritime and Coastguard Agency	1,075,000
Driving Standards Agency	299,700
Government Car and Despatch Agency	171,800
Vehicle Certification Agency	80,500
Vehicle and Operator Services Agency	30,000

Major areas of spend were on campaigns such as THINK! road safety; ACT ON CO2; concessionary bus fares; aviation security and vehicle taxation.

Electrification

Mr. Hancock: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what progress has been made in meeting the Government’s targets to increase the electrification of railways. [212330]

Mr. Tom Harris: The Government have not set any targets to increase rail electrification. However, the Department for Transport is working closely with the rail industry to re-examine the business case for electrification, explore how costs can be reduced and to agree priority schemes. The aim is to produce an indicative implementation plan by the end of 2008.

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Great Western Trains: Standards

Martin Horwood: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport if she will place in the Library the Public Performance Measure Moving Annual Average statistics for (a) First Great Western services for each year since 2006 and (b) the train operating companies which ran those services now operated by First Great Western during 2002 to 2006. [212754]

Mr. Tom Harris: The figures are as follows (period 1 starts 1 April each year. No figures are available for early 2002 for Wessex Trains, as it had been created by splitting up another franchise the previous year. First Great Western Link took over from Thames Trains on 1 April 2004):

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Percentage
Rail 4-weekly period	Old First Great Western	Thames Trains/ First Great Western Link	Wessex Trains
2002-03
1	72.1	80.4	n/a
2	72.7	80.5	n/a
3	73.5	80.6	n/a
4	74.9	81.0	n/a
5	75.1	81.0	n/a
6	74.8	81.1	n/a
7	75.1	81.5	81.9
8	74.0	81.0	81.4
9	73.2	80.7	81.4
10	72.1	80.4	80.9
11	71.1	79.8	80.7
12	71.3	79.6	81.0
13	71.9	79.2	81.1
2003-04
1	72.0	78.8	81.0
2	72.2	78.7	81.4
3	71.5	78.1	81.5
4	71.0	77.8	81.6
5	70.3	77.3	81.6
6	70.0	77.0	81.9
7	69.0	76.3	82.0
8	70.0	76.7	82.6
9	71.4	77.4	82.7
10	72.2	77.6	83.1
11	73.4	78.2	83.3
12	73.7	78.6	83.5
13	73.9	79.1	83.7
2004-05
1	74.3	79.5	84.1
2	74.6	79.7	84.1
3	75.5	80.3	84.2
4	76.5	81.1	84.3
5	77.9	81.6	84.7
6	78.8	82.0	84.8
7	80.1	82.8	84.8
8	79.6	82.8	84.8
9	80.1	82.9	85.3
10	80.4	83.1	85.5
11	80.1	83.1	85.6
12	79.8	83.0	85.6
13	79.6	82.9	85.4
2005-06
1	79.4	83.0	85.3
2	79.1	82.9	85.3
3	78.1	82.6	85.0
4	77.0	82.3	84.7
5	77.0	82.6	84.8
6	76.9	82.8	85.1
7	76.6	83.1	85.2
8	76.2	83.2	85.2
9	74.9	82.9	84.7
10	74.8	83.0	84.6
11	75.1	83.1	84.8
12	75.0	83.3	85.0
13	74.5	83.5	85.2

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