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Sandra Gidley: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport how many reported deaths from traffic accidents there were in (a) Romsey constituency, (b) the city of Southampton, (c) the non-metropolitan county of Hampshire and (d) Test Valley borough in each of the last five years. [222995]
Jim Fitzpatrick: The numbers of deaths in reported personal injury road accidents in Romsey constituency, the city of Southampton, Hampshire excluding Portsmouth and Southampton and the Test Valley borough in 2003 to 2007 are given in the following table.
| Number of fatalities | |||||
| 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | |
| (1) Based on 2004 boundaries | |||||
Mr. Milburn: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what plans she has to make road traffic accident investigation reports accessible to the public. [223891]
Jim Fitzpatrick: Police accident investigation reports form a subjudice criminal investigation file once proceedings have been commenced. The contents of these files are not published, and extracts are only provided to courts and the Crown Prosecution Service in the process of providing evidence, and provided to third parties and insurance companies according to law. Following proceedings, the police files are held in confidence, given the personal and other data they contain. There are no plans to change this.
Roads: Safety
Mark Hunter: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport (1) what progress has been made on the Road Safety After 2010 Strategy; and when she plans to publish the strategy; [222261]
(2) what groups and organisations are being consulted in relation to her Department’s Road Safety After 2010 Strategy. [222262]
Jim Fitzpatrick: The current road safety strategy runs from 2000 to 2010. The Department for Transport has been discussing with road safety stakeholders the challenges we face in the period after 2010 and listening to ideas on how to reduce casualties further. We expect to consult formally early in 2009 on a new road safety strategy.
We have so far involved the following organisations and intend to consult more widely prior to the formal consultation:
Parliamentary Advisory Council on Transport Safety
Road Safety Foundation
Hyder Consulting
Cycling England
Living Streets
County Surveyors’ Society
Institute of Highways and Transportation
Transport for London
The Motorists’ Forum
The RAC Foundation
The AA
The Motorcycle Industry Association
Brake
TRL
Child Accident Prevention Trust
Road Haulage Association
Roadsafe
Local Government Association
Ford Motor Company
Toyota Europe
Tata Motors
Jaguar Land Rover
Volvo Trucks
IVECO
BMW
The Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders
Thatcham
Millbrook
Mira
Southampton University
Vehicle Safety Research Centre (Loughborough University)
Institute for Transport Studies (Leeds University)
The FIA Foundation
Cranfield University
ITS UK
Innovits
Mark Hunter: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport who the members of the Road Safety Advisory Panel are; what the output of the panel was in each of the last 12 months; and how often the panel meets. [222263]
Jim Fitzpatrick: The Road Safety Advisory Panel is a group of road safety interests convened by the Department for Transport to inform Government policy at key points in policy development. Its last meeting was on 6 December 2006 to discuss the second review of the road safety strategy. At that point, its membership was:
Highways Agency
Living Streets
Home Office
Motorcycle Advisory Group
Local Authority Road Safety Officer’ Association
Royal Society for Prevention of Accidents
Welsh Local Government Association
County Surveyors’ Society
CTC, the national cyclists’ organisation
Parliamentary Advisory Council on Transport Safety
Driving Standards Agency
The AA Motoring Trust
Association of British Insurers
Welsh Assembly Government
Motor Schools Association
Scottish Executive
Child Accident Prevention Trust
RAC Foundation
RoadSafe
Brake
Local Authority Road Safety Officers’ Association
Association of Chief Police Officers
Highways Agency
Health and Safety Executive
We expect to convene a meeting of the panel shortly to discuss the new road safety strategy, for the period beyond 2010.
Mr. Evans: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what allocation her Department has made for expenditure on road safety in the next 12 months; and if she will make a statement. [222961]
Jim Fitzpatrick:
It is not possible to identify a budget figure for road safety alone, given that spending often serves multiple purposes. For example, highway authorities'
spending on roads is both to make trunk roads safer and to tackle congestion. Many individual schemes have multiple objectives.
However, the Department's annual report allocates budget by broad objective. The planned spend on the relevant objective —strengthening the safety and security of transport—is £3.867 million for 2008-09. There is further detail in Appendix A of the annual report, available on the Department's website at:
Roads: Surveys
Mrs. Lait: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport pursuant to the answer to the hon. Member for Bromley and Chislehurst of 2 July 2008, Official Report, column 927W, on roads: surveys, if she will place in the Library copies of the Office for National Statistics Omnibus Survey research on road pricing compiled in the last two years. [223014]
Jim Fitzpatrick: Reports were published by the Department for Transport (DfT) on 25 October 2007 and 8 May 2008. They are on the DfT website at:
Copies have been placed in the Libraries of the House.
South East
Dr. Stoate: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport how much her Department spent on services, broken down by type in (a) Dartford Borough, (b) Kent Thameside, (c) the Thames Gateway, (d) Kent County Council area and (e) the South East region in each of the last five years. [222455]
Jim Fitzpatrick: The following tables show Department for Transport funding allocated to Kent county council and the total funding allocated to local authorities within the South East region over the last five years.
More detailed figures are not available since it is for Kent county council to decide on the allocation of available resource and investment to different areas. Spend in the Thames Gateway area may also include allocations from Essex county council and relevant London boroughs. Most transport revenue spend is supported through the revenue support grant, paid by the Department for Communities and Local Government.
| Kent county council | |||||
| £000 | |||||
| Funding stream | 2004-05 | 2005-06 | 2006-07 | 2007-08 | 2008-09 |
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