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Departmental Capital Expenditure
Mr. Hoban: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport how much capital spending is planned to be brought forward by his Department to (a) 2008-09 and (b) 2009-10. [266291]
Mr. Hoon: The Fiscal Stimulus package for transport, announced in the pre-Budget report, “Facing global challenges: Supporting people through difficult times” (Cm 7484), comprises £700 million of capital budget advanced into 2009-10 from 2010-11. No funds were advanced into 2008-09 from 2009-10.
Departmental Consultants
Mrs. Villiers: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport how much his Department has spent on consultants in respect of (a) cycling and (b) walking in the last 12 months. [266432]
Paul Clark: Approximately £2.513 million has been spent on consultants to support Cycling England’s programme. This includes tasks such as provision of advice and support to local authorities to help them deliver effective cycling projects, management of grant dispersal, monitoring and evaluation and development of the new cycle training programme.
It is not possible to quantify the walking and cycling element of the full range of projects. There will be a walking and cycling element to many road safety and traffic management projects for example.
Mrs. Villiers: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport how much his Department has spent on consultants in respect of proposals to widen (a) the M1, (b) the M6 and (c) the M62 in each of the last 11 years. [266433]
Paul Clark: The expenditure on consultants engaged on widening the M1, M6 and M62 schemes by year, is given in the table.
| Motorway | |||
| M1 | M6 | M62 | |
Due to changes in the Highways Agency’s financial systems, all expenditure before 2001-02 is given as ‘pre 2001-02’ expenditure.
The expenditure is the total cost of all consultancy work including employer’s agent and design and development consultants from programme entry up to:
construction, for schemes which have completed or are currently under construction; or
July 2008 for schemes which, since that date, have been considered for Hard Shoulder Running as part of the Managed Motorways feasibility study.
Some schemes have investigated Active Traffic management options alongside widening before the Hard Shoulder Running feasibility study programme started in July 2008. Expenditure on these schemes is not entirely attributable to widening, but it is not possible to separate these costs.
Mrs. Villiers:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport how much his Department has spent on
consultants on road widening schemes (a) in total and (b) in each region in each of the last 11 years. [266435]
Paul Clark: The expenditure on consultants engaged on both motorway and non-motorway widening schemes, by region and by year, is given in the table.
| £ million | ||||||||||
| Region | Pre 2001-02 | 2001-02 | 2002-03 | 2003-04 | 2004-05 | 2005-06 | 2006-07 | 2007-08 | 2008-09 | Total |
| Key: NE (North East) E (East) EM (East Midlands) NW (North West) SE (South East) SW (South West) WM (West Midlands) YH (Yorkshire and Humberside) | ||||||||||
Due to changes in the Highways Agency’s financial systems, all expenditure before 2001-02 is given as ‘pre 2001-02’ expenditure. Negative figures represent prior years’ accounting adjustments on specific schemes.
Departmental Disciplinary Proceedings
David Simpson: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport how many staff in his Department (a) were disciplined and (b) had their employment terminated as a result of a poor sickness record in each of the last 12 months. [262220]
Mr. Hoon: The central Department and its agencies disciplined or dismissed the following staff for poor sickness records in each of the last 12 months:
| Disciplined | Dismissed | |
| (1) Where there are fewer than five occurrences, the Department’s policy is to suppress information on grounds of confidentiality. | ||
Departmental Empty Property
Mr. Philip Hammond: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what estimate he has made of the change in the annual cost to his Department of maintaining the empty public buildings owned by his Department as a result of the April 2008 changes to empty property rate relief. [267139]
Mr. Hoon: The annual cost to the Department of maintaining empty buildings is estimated at £56,366.
Departmental Energy
Greg Clark: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport how much (a) electricity, (b) gas and (c) other fuel was used by (i) his Department and (ii) each of its agencies in each of the last 10 years. [267330]
Mr. Hoon: The Department for Transport was formed in 2002 and we do not hold the relevant records prior to that date.
The following tables show the electricity, gas and other fuels used by the Department for Transport and its Agencies since 2002-03.
| Electricity (kWh) | ||||||
| Business unit | 2002-03 | 2003-04 | 2004-05 | 2005-06 | 2006-07 | 2007-08 |
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