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Shipping: Pollution

Mr. Sanders: To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport what steps his Department is taking in international fora to reduce pollution emissions from shipping. [279972]

Paul Clark: The Department for Transport is involved in a wide range of work within the relevant international and European forums to address pollutant emissions from shipping.

In particular the Department works within the International Maritime Organisation to address a range of pollution issues. Currently this work includes measures to address air quality, garbage and ballast water from shipping, with the Department playing a leading role in recently adopted measures to reduce SOx and NOx emissions from ships.

Southern: Standards

Mrs. Villiers: To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport whether the new South Central operator proposed targets for passenger satisfaction as part of its bid. [280377]

Chris Mole: The South Central franchise specification required the operator to set targets based on National Passenger Survey results for trains, stations and customer service, split by groups of services—South London, Sussex and Coast and Gatwick Express. If these targets are not achieved the bidder is required to spend up to £0.5 million per annum to implement a plan to rectify any deficiencies.

Mrs. Villiers: To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport what (a) enhancements and (b) investments stipulated in the South Central franchise will be funded by (i) the Government and (ii) Southern Trains; and how much each will cost. [280383]

Chris Mole: The franchising process does not allow for the identification of individual sources of investment. Instead, it provides an overall price to Government of the package that is proposed by the bidder (either subsidy or in the case of South Central a £534 million premium). It is thus not possible to identify the individual investment costs being borne by the South Central operator or the Government.

Mrs. Villiers: To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport how much his Department plans to spend on staffing of new gating systems for the new South Central franchise; and how much Transport for London has agreed to spend to ensure stations on the new South Central franchise are staffed from first to last service on each operational day. [280385]

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Chris Mole: The Department for Transport is not funding the staffing of new gating systems on an individual basis. These plans form part of an overall franchise bid and it is not possible to disaggregate staffing costs to this level.

Transport for London will be contributing around £4 million to the franchise.

Southern: Tickets

Mrs. Villiers: To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport whether Integrated Transport Smartcard Organisation smartcards are planned to be in place across the whole South Central franchise area by 2012. [280380]

Chris Mole: The franchisee is required to install an Integrated Transport Smartcard Organisation (ITSO) based smartcard system by January 2012.

Mrs. Villiers: To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport what the terms are for the delay repay scheme stipulated in the South Central franchise. [280381]

Chris Mole: The terms of the delay/repay scheme to be introduced on the new South Central franchise are the same as that introduced on other recent franchise competitions.

The terms apply to all ticket types, with an entitlement to 50 per cent. compensation for a delay of between 30 and 59 minutes; 100 per cent. for a delay of 60-119
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minutes and 100 per cent. of the return fare for any delay of 120 minutes or more. For season tickets, compensation is calculated using the proportional daily cost of the ticket.

Mrs. Villiers: To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport for what period the winning bid for the South Central franchise assumes an RPI plus one per cent. increase for unregulated fares. [280382]

Chris Mole: The level of unregulated fares are a matter for individual operators. This remains the position within the South Central franchise. The winning bid has assumed that unregulated fares will increase by RPI +1 per cent. on average across the duration of the franchise.

Speed Limits: Cameras

Mrs. Villiers: To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport how many fixed penalty notices have been issued by each Safety Camera Partnership and successor organisation since 2001. [279597]

Paul Clark: The Department for Transport holds only information about speed and red light cameras operating under the National Safety Camera Programme which started in 2001 and ended on 31 March 2007. The numbers of fixed penalty notices issued by each safety camera partnership were not collected. However, details of fixed penalty notices issued and subsequently paid, broken down by partnership area, are outlined in the following table:

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Speed and red light fixed penalty notices paid, by partnership and financial year
	2000-01	2001-02	2002-03	2003-04	2004-05	2005-06	2006-07
Avon and Somerset	—	—	68,067	99,151	82,054	73,914	59,555
Bedfordshire	—	—	50,792	60,920	58,439	50,558	50,362
Cambridgeshire	—	2,257	12,856	20,763	19,941	20,998	20,474
Cheshire	—	—	—	30,064	37,690	33,256	32,469
Cleveland	14,983	14,418	24,395	21,144	21,907	21,056	18,101
Cumbria	—	—	—	26,979	29,792	26,836	30,984
Derbyshire	—	10,900	32,192	47,040	40,485	30,072	29,041
Devon and Cornwall	—	—	19,749	48,974	53,204	47,508	43,144
Dorset	—	—	23,733	65,984	49,791	50,098	46,822
Essex	30,775	58,735	94,537	85,629	78,505	78,881	65,284
Gloucestershire	—	—	—	—	—	13,702	12,081
Greater Manchester	—	—	—	48,118	41,221	59,085	67,578
Hampshire	—	—	29,096	41,587	52,128	48,476	45,171
Hertfordshire	—	—	5,464	31,695	58,556	46,887	42,759
Humberside	—	—	0	44,681	42,469	45,289	36,164
Kent	—	—	30,994	54,929	60,959	50,285	61,206
Lancashire	—	19,953	98,495	84,560	58,869	62,887	57,551
Leicestershire	—	—	33,644	38,538	29,368	37,010	30,066
Lincolnshire	10,450	10,477	26,222	23,717	25,977	29,252	21,924
London	—	—	85,351	108,291	148,379	157,597	126,130
Merseyside	—	—	—	—	—	18,332	24,848
Mid and South Wales	26,117	31,271	121,076	121,353	109,224	101,014	98,031
Norfolk	—	2,669	20,101	27,157	23,958	22,100	24,914
North Wales	—	10,813	43,484	56,247	50,495	66,038	55,399
Northamptonshire	36,131	45,559	59,845	55,819	47,976	51,265	42,186
Northumbria	—	—	—	53,426	71,647	63,387	48,407
Nottinghamshire	9,273	14,472	46,711	55,530	59,392	52,940	53,129
South Yorkshire	—	—	15,814	52,816	51,048	60,376	41,982
Staffordshire	—	10,520	36,299	40,604	45,054	46,632	43,109
Suffolk	—	—	—	24,144	39,406	33,087	31,623
Surrey	—	—	—	—	—	23,940	39,224
Sussex	—	—	26,582	62,880	46,752	56,912	50,032
Thames Valley	37,319	77,881	114,933	111,646	92,690	90,833	75,248
Warwickshire	—	3,405	39,810	50,862	43,454	39,088	33,536
West Mercia	—	—	—	51,436	51,599	47,554	44,191
West Midlands	—	—	11,742	46,000	54,904	48,073	45,820
West Yorkshire	—	—	37,594	60,432	67,076	56,838	42,955
Wiltshire	—	—	21,693	39,680	51,085	48,368	50,230

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