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Shipping
Mr. Brazier:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport which 24 UK flagged ships were detained by Port State Authorities belonging to the Paris memorandum of undertaking on Port State Control; and what the (a)
name, (b) manager, (c) beneficial owner and (d) country of beneficial owner was of each. [214785]
Jim Fitzpatrick: The 22 UK registered ships that were detained in 2005-07 by Port State Authorities belonging to the Paris memorandum of undertaking on Port State Control are in the following table.
| Detentions 200 -07 | ||||||
| (a ) Ship Name | IMO Number | ( b ) Ship Manager | Manager Country | (c) Ship Owner. | (d) Owner Country | Remarks |
In addition to the 22 UK registered ships listed the time of their detention, but recorded as UK above there were two ships that were registered in Gibraltar, at registered.
Transport: Fuels
Norman Baker: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport whether her Department has tested future transport policy against each of the oil price scenarios provided by the Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform; and if she will make a statement. [216765]
Ms Rosie Winterton: The Department for Transport is currently producing road transport forecasts using the recently updated Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform (BERR) oil price projections. This work is not yet complete.
While we have focused on BERR's central oil price projections in previous Department analyses, we have also considered the impacts of each of the alternative price scenarios they provide as sensitivity analyses. We would anticipate this would be undertaken for future road, rail and air forecasts used in policy analysis.
Transport: Schools
Anne Main: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what recent representations she has received from bus service operators on the effect of increases in the cost of fuel on the provision of school bus services; and if she will make a statement. [217241]
Ms Rosie Winterton: We are aware from the Department’s ongoing discussions with bus operators that there are concerns about the impact of increased fuel costs on all the services they provide, including school bus services.
Vehicle and Operator Services Agency
Kerry McCarthy: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport if she will place in the Library a copy of the outline business case prepared by the Department for Transport Board on outsourcing the Vehicle and Operator Services Agency. [215244]
Jim Fitzpatrick: The outline business case is an internal document which remains subject to change. I made a written statement to the House on 3 July 2008, Official Report, columns 61-64WS, which sets out the substantive decision of Ministers on this matter.
Mr. David Anderson: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport if she will place in the Library a copy of the Vehicle and Operator Services Agency full Outline Business Case for outsourcing. [215682]
Jim Fitzpatrick: The outline business case is an internal document which remains subject to change. I made a written statement to the House on 3 July, Official Report, columns 61-4WS, which sets out the substantive decision of Ministers on this matter.
Waterloo Station
Mr. Ian Taylor: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport when she expects to finalise the budget for the conversion of the five vacated Eurostar platforms at Waterloo for use by domestic rail services. [215879]
Mr. Tom Harris: The Department for Transport is working closely with Network Rail and Stagecoach South Western Trains (SSWT) to finalise the costs of the partial conversion of platform 20 of Waterloo International to accommodate a limited number of domestic services from December 2008.
However, it is primarily the railway infrastructure outside Waterloo that limits the number of trains that can use the station rather than the number of platforms. Therefore the need is to run longer trains rather than more trains. So we are planning to make all the platforms at Waterloo long enough to accommodate 10 car trains and to modify the junction layouts on the approaches to the station, so that, ultimately, all the platforms at Waterloo, including those once used by Eurostar, can be used by 10 car domestic services.
Network Rail is currently developing the scope and costs of delivering such a large and complex scheme which would allow the use of longer trains than currently
use the short platforms and would result in a large increase in capacity on the South Western network.
Mr. Ian Taylor: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport when she expects work to commence on the five empty platforms at Waterloo Station to allow use by domestic rail services. [215880]
Mr. Tom Harris: Work to convert Waterloo International to accommodate a limited number of domestic services will commence this summer. These services, most likely on the routes to Windsor and Reading, could use platform 20 of Waterloo International from the proposed timetable change date in December 2008.
It is primarily the railway infrastructure outside Waterloo that limits the number of trains that can use the station rather than the number of platforms. Therefore the need is to run longer trains rather than more trains. So we are planning to make all the platforms at Waterloo long enough to accommodate 10 car trains and to modify the junction layouts on the approaches to the station, so that, ultimately, all the platforms at Waterloo, including those once used by Eurostar, can be used by 10 car domestic services.
Such a large and complex scheme would allow the use of longer trains than currently use the short platforms and would result in a large increase in capacity on the South Western network. Our current assumptions indicate that this could be completed by around 2014.
House of Commons Commission
192.com
Mr. Amess: To ask the hon. Member for North Devon, representing the House of Commons Commission if the Commission will (a) subscribe to the 192.com service and (b) make it available on the Parliamentary intranet; and if he will make a statement. [216326]
Nick Harvey: The House of Commons Library will not subscribe to 192.com. Some of the information available through this service, including business contact details and directory inquiries services, is freely available from sources such as yell.com and BT directory inquiries, which are already listed on the Library intranet page.
192.com also contains the redacted version of the electoral register. All Members are able to request the full register for their registration area, free of charge, from the local electoral registration officer. In addition the ‘Find Your MP’ service on the Parliament website can be used to check which constituency a given postcode falls under. Other information available from 192.com, such as family records, is not likely to be relevant for Parliamentary research purposes
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