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Careless Driving: Fixed Penalties
Mr. Greg Knight: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what plans he has to bring forward proposals to give police forces the powers to issue fixed penalty tickets for careless driving; and if he will make a statement. [260376]
Jim Fitzpatrick: Proposals to make careless driving a fixed penalty offence were outlined in the Department's Road Safety Compliance Consultation which closed on 27 February. We are currently considering the responses and an announcement will be made in due course.
Departmental Art Works
Mr. Vara: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport which works of art from the Government Art Collection each Minister in his Department has selected for display in a private office. [259437]
Mr. Hoon: The following pieces from the Government Art Collection are on display in Ministers’ private offices in the Department for Transport.
Departmental Data Protection
Norman Baker: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what period of time elapses before his Department’s electronic records are (a) archived and (b) destroyed; and what percentage of such records created in (i) 2007 and (ii) 2008 have been destroyed. [259353]
Mr. Hoon: The following table shows relevant information for the central Department and the Executive agencies:
Norman Baker: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport on what date his Department’s policy on the management of its electronic records took effect; and on what dates it has been reviewed. [259354]
Mr. Hoon: The dates on which the central Department and Executive agency policies on record management took effect and were reviewed is set out in the following tables:
| Date records policy took effect | Date records policy reviewed | |
|
Regularly reviewed and updated when necessary, most recently in December 2007 and October 2008 | ||
The dates on which the Driving Standards Agency’s policies on record management took effect and were reviewed is set out in the following table:
| DSA p olicy | Approved | Reviewed |
|
Retention Schedule for the Integrated Register of Driver Trainers | ||
Norman Baker: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport if he will place in the Library a copy of his Department’s policy on the management of electronic records. [259355]
Mr. Hoon: A copy of the central Department’s policy on the management of electronic and paper records has been placed in the Library along with records policies for the Highways Agency and the Vehicle Operator Services Agency. The Driving Standards Agency has also placed the following documents in the Library:
DSA Records Management Policy
HR Data Retention Policy
Appropriate use of IT and Communications Equipment Policy
Retention Schedule for the Integrated Register of Driver Trainers
Fraud and Integrity Retention and Disposal Schedule
Annex M of Pearson Data Processor Agreement.
The Driving and Vehicle Licensing Agency has policies on the storage, transmission and destruction of electronic protectively marked material but they are themselves protectively marked and it would not be appropriate to make them publicly available.
Departmental Sick Leave
Norman Lamb: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what the average number of days sick leave per staff member in his Department was in each of the last five years. [256389]
Mr. Hoon: Sickness absence is monitored by the central Department and its agencies on a monthly basis. The average number of working days lost for the Department for Transport is as follows:
| Average number of working days lost | |
The figures to 2006 have been previously published in the “National Audit Office Report: The management of staff sickness absence in the Department for Transport and its agencies” dated 8 June 2007. The figures are based on an agreed departmental reporting methodology and reported within a calendar year. Figures for 2007 onwards are in accordance with the Cabinet Office reporting methodology introduced for all Government Departments. Reporting is now within financial years on a rolling year basis.
Heathrow Airport
Justine Greening: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport (1) how many discrete views were expressed in responses to the adding capacity at Heathrow airport consultation, broken down by (a) the code allocated to the view under the code frame used by Detica and (b) the response type in which the view was expressed; [259110]
(2) how many responses to the adding capacity at Heathrow airport consultation were received in the form of (a) Justine Greening Petition and (b) ‘Justine Greening your views of Heathrow’ postcards, as categorised by Detica under its code frame; and how many of these responses included free-text. [259111]
Jim Fitzpatrick [holding answer 26 February 2009]: A detailed analysis of the responses to the adding capacity at Heathrow airport consultation can be found in the “adding capacity at Heathrow airport report on consultation responses”, which was published on 15 January. Chapter 4 discusses response volumes, and Appendix B explains in detail the code frames used. 1549 ‘Justine Greening your views of Heathrow’ postcards, and 584 ‘Justine Greening Petition’ responses were received. However as the postcards were received before the start of the consultation, they were not analysed as individual responses. A detailed breakdown of discrete views contained both in petition and postcard responses, and in all other responses, can be obtained only at disproportionate cost.
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