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We cannot currently break down the figure by disabled and elderly passes, but reports are being set up to allow us to do so in the future.
Dartford-Thurrock Crossing: Tolls
Mr. Scott: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport if he will reverse the recent increases in toll charges on the Dartford river crossing. [236230]
Paul Clark: Over the weekend of 15 and 16 November we introduced a number of changes to the charging regime at the Dartford Crossing, an increase in daytime charges, the removal of night time charges when traffic is lighter and discount schemes for immediate residents in the vicinity of the crossing in Kent and Essex. The charges exist to address serious congestion pressures at the crossing, and the new arrangements we are introducing follow two consultation exercises. There are no plans to reverse the increases.
Departmental Buildings
Mr. Maude: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport pursuant to the answer of the hon. Member for Rochford and Southend, East of 6 October 2008, Official Report, columns 198-99W, on departmental buildings, what the cost of each refurbishment was. [233418]
Mr. Hoon: The requested information is provided in the following table.
| Property | Cost of refurbishment (£ million) |
Information on the cost of refurbishments undertaken by the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency cannot be provided for reasons of commercial confidentiality.
Departmental Conditions of Employment
Mrs. May: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what percentage of employees in his Department are (a) on a flexible working contract, (b) on a job share employment contract and (c) work from home for more than four hours a week. [233820]
Mr. Hoon: The Department for Transport does not record this information centrally.
Staff may arrange such conditions with line manager agreement and subject to business needs.
Further information can be provided only at disproportionate cost.
Departmental ICT
Paul Holmes: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport how many (a) memory sticks, (b) laptop computers, (c) desktop computers, (d) hard drives and (e) mobile telephones were (i) lost by and (ii) stolen from his Department in each year since its inception. [234085]
Mr. Hoon: The Department for Transport was formed in 2002 and now includes seven agencies, a shared service centre and the central Department, with a total staff of over 19,000. The figures provided here for lost and stolen devices are for the entire Department including its agencies and shared service centre where that information is available. The figures provided do not include losses or thefts where records are not available, where equipment has not been procured centrally, or where such losses or thefts were not reported. The figures are as follows:
| 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | |
Departmental Information Officers
Mr. Hunt: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport which organisations provided media monitoring services to (a) his Department, (b) its agencies and (c) its non-departmental public bodies in each of the last three years; and what the cost of each contract was. [230037]
Mr. Hoon: The Department for Transport commissions the production of press cuttings of national, regional and specialist media coverage of transport issues, and these services form the majority of media monitoring costs. The following table lists organisations that provided media monitoring services to the Department in each of the last three financial years and the cost.
| £000 | |||
| 2005-06 | 2006-07 | 2007-08 | |
Details for NDPBs can be provided only at disproportionate cost.
Departmental Internet
Mrs. May: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport for which Government websites his Department is responsible; how many visitors each received in the last period for which figures are available; and what the cost of maintaining each site was in that period. [235037]
Mr. Hoon: The Department for Transport maintains 66 public-facing websites, including those run by the Executive agencies.
Tables have been placed in the Libraries of the House showing unique visitor numbers and maintenance costs for the Department for Transport websites.
Unique visitor data are not provided for all sites as the statistical software used on those sites do not produce this level of detail, only providing page requests rather than unique visitor data.
Where annual maintenance costs are not available this is due to a number of reasons; either the site has only recently been available and maintenance costs are only applicable for the current financial year; the costs are part of a much larger contract and cannot be itemised; or the costs cannot be calculated without incurring disproportionate costs. Costs provided do not include staff costs.
Mr. Heald: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport how many page hits from how many visitors his Department’s website received in 2007-08. [237141]
Mr. Hoon: The Department for Transport website:
received 30,913,738 page hits from 3,571,614 visitors in 2007-08.
Departmental Temporary Employment
John McDonnell: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport if he will list the methods by which all contractors, consultants and staff from employment agencies working in DfT Human Resources and DfT(C) Human Resources were hired. [234782]
Mr. Hoon: Human Resources in the Department for Transport and in its Agencies use framework arrangements for the hire of agency staff. Consultants and contractors are generally hired through competitive tender using pre-negotiated frameworks.
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