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Speed Limits
Margaret Moran: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what steps his Department is taking to ensure that (a) 20 miles per hour and (b) home zones are enforced. [247676]
Jim Fitzpatrick: A 20 mph zone is required by law to contain traffic calming measures placed at regular intervals to ensure compliance with the speed limit. Additional police enforcement is considered unnecessary.
Designation of a road as a home zone does not introduce any enforceable restrictions. The design of a home zone, and any measures implemented, should aim to achieve low vehicle speeds so that permitted activities can be enjoyed safely. The enforcement of any
complementary restrictions, for example speed limits or parking, is a matter for the relevant authority, which may be the police or the local authority.
Speed Limits: Cameras
Mr. Baron: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport how much has been raised in fines (a) from each speed camera and (b) in total from speed cameras in (i) Essex and (ii) Basildon district in each of the last 10 years; and what funds relating to speed cameras have been made available by his Department to (A) Essex County Council and (B) Basildon District Council in each of the last 10 years. [248486]
Jim Fitzpatrick: Information about fine revenue raised by individual cameras is not held by the Department for Transport. The Department only holds information about speed cameras operating under the National Safety Camera programme which ended on 31 March 2007. Separate information for the Basildon district of Essex is not held. Essex joined the Safety Camera Programme on 1 April 2000. Figures from the audit certificates for the Essex Safety Camera Partnership are contained in table A as follows and show the fine revenue from conditional offer of fixed penalties for offences detected by speed and red light cameras operating under the then National Safety Camera Programme.
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Under the then netting off funding arrangements, safety camera partnerships reclaimed expenditure directly attributed to the prevention, detection and enforcement of offences. The amount reclaimed by the Essex partnership in these financial years is set out in table B as follows. The surplus was returned to the Consolidated Fund.
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On 1 April 2007 the specific road safety grant replaced the system of funding safety cameras through fine income. Essex received £3,363,428 of this grant in 2007-08 and £3,215,679 in 2008-09.
Mr. Crausby: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport how much was raised in fines from speed cameras in (a) Bolton and (b) Greater Manchester in the last year for which records are available; how much of that income was spent in (i) Bolton and (ii) Greater Manchester; and if he will make a statement. [248684]
Jim Fitzpatrick: The Department for Transport information about speed cameras operating under the National Safety Camera Programme which ended on 31 March 2007. Separate information for the Bolton area is not held. The audit certificate for the Greater Manchester Safety Camera Partnership for 2006-07 shows the fine revenue from fixed penalty tickets for offences detected by speed and red light cameras operating under the then National Safety Camera Programme to be £4,054,680. Under the programme funding arrangements, safety camera partnerships re-claimed expenditure directly attributed to the prevention, detection and enforcement of offences. The amount re-claimed by the Greater Manchester partnership in 2006-07 was £3,431,191. The surplus was returned to the Treasury Consolidated Fund.
Mike Penning: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport how much was raised in fines from speed cameras in (a) Hemel Hempstead and (b) Hertfordshire in the last year for which records are available; how much of that revenue was spent in (i) Hemel Hempstead and (ii) Hertfordshire; and if he will make a statement. [249036]
Jim Fitzpatrick: The Department for Transport only holds information about speed cameras operating under the National Safety Camera Programme which ended on 31 March 2007. Separate information for the Hemel Hempstead area is not held. The audit certificate for the Hertfordshire Safety Camera Partnership for 2006-07 shows the fine revenue from fixed penalty tickets for offences detected by speed and red light cameras operating under the then National Safety Camera Programme to be £2,565,540. Under the programme funding arrangements, safety camera partnerships re-claimed expenditure directly attributed to the prevention, detection and enforcement of offences. The amount re-claimed by the Hertfordshire partnership in 2006-07 was £2,516,862. The surplus was returned to the Treasury Consolidated Fund.
Traffic Lights: Cameras
Mr. Amess: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport at what locations, on what roads, in (a) the Metropolitan Police area of London, (b) Essex and (c) Hertfordshire where red light cameras are (i) in place and (ii) will be in place within the next 12 months for the purpose of monitoring vehicles for offences other than speeding. [247998]
Jim Fitzpatrick: The Department for Transport information about the locations of red light cameras operating under the National Safety Camera Programme which ended on 31 March 2007. Accurate and up to date information may be held by the London, Essex and Hertfordshire road safety partnerships who are responsible for the operation and placement of red light cameras.
Vehicle and Operator Services Agency: Surveys
Willie Rennie: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport whether his Department has conducted any customer service surveys relating to the Vehicle and Operator Services Agency following its reform. [247890]
Jim Fitzpatrick:
The Vehicle and Operator Services Agency (VOSA) are committed to monitoring customer opinions of the service they deliver, which they monitor
through annual customer satisfaction surveys covering the key service delivery areas of testing, enforcement and licensing. This information can be found at:
Vehicles: Carbon Emissions
Tom Brake: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport how many registered road vehicles of each (a) engine size and (b) level of carbon dioxide emissions there were in each (i) region and (ii) constituency in each year from 2004 to 2008. [247494]
Jim Fitzpatrick: Tables providing the requested information for 2004, 2005, 2006 and 2007 have been placed in the Libraries of the House.
National statistics regarding the number of licensed vehicles as at the end of 2008 are not yet available, but are due to be published in April 2009.
Vehicles: France
Chris Huhne: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what estimate he has made of the number of French-licensed road vehicles with long-range fuel tanks being used to undertake business solely within the UK. [247120]
Jim Fitzpatrick: Using data made available by Eurostat, the most recent estimates (for 2006) show that French hauliers operating in the UK were responsible for 0.2 billion tonne kilometres of cabotage activity. Information on the amount of fuel carried by these vehicles is not routinely collected.
Northern Ireland
Closed Circuit Television
Mr. Gregory Campbell: To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland whether there are any outstanding requests to his Department for CCTV cameras at interface points in Northern Ireland. [248932]
Paul Goggins: There are currently no outstanding requests for CCTV at Interface points in Northern Ireland.
Crime
Mr. Gregory Campbell: To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland how many incidents of hate crime were recorded in Northern Ireland in 2008. [248426]
Paul Goggins: This is an operational matter for the Chief Constable. I have asked him to reply directly to the hon. Member, and a copy of his letter will be placed in the Library of the House.
Departmental Ministerial Policy Advisers
Mr. Tyrie:
To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland what expert advisers have been commissioned by his Department and its agencies since 1997; on what
topic each was commissioned; and whether the adviser so appointed made a declaration of political activity in each case. [246963]
Mr. Woodward: Information on expert advisers commissioned by my Department and its agencies since 1997 is not held centrally and to obtain this information would incur disproportionate cost.
The Northern Ireland Office (NIO) has 11 Executive and advisory NDPBs which are regulated by the Office of the Commissioner of Public Appointments (OCPA). Declarations of political activity/interest are a customary part of this process.
The NIO also has a number of other public bodies including independent monitoring boards and international bodies. Information regarding appointments to these bodies is not held centrally.
Since 2003, Government have published an annual statement with details of special advisers. The most recent information was published on 22 July 2008, Official Report, columns 99-102WS.
Departmental Pay
Bob Spink: To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland if he will make it his policy that temporary and permanent employees of his Department employed at the same grade receive the same hourly rate of pay. [248417]
Mr. Woodward: I refer the hon. Member to the answer given on 12 January 2009, Official Report, column 199W.
Departmental Vehicles
Mr. Paterson: To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland with reference to the answer of 24 November 2008, Official Report, column 883W, on departmental vehicles, what types and makes of vehicles were maintained in each year. [243236]
Mr. Woodward: The following types and makes of vehicles were maintained in each of the last five years. These figures exclude the Department’s agencies and Executive non-departmental public bodies.
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