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Invalid Vehicles: Accidents
Jeff Ennis: To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport how many mobility scooter accidents involving (a) children and (b) adults have been recorded in each of the last five years. [292835]
Paul Clark: The information requested cannot be identified separately. Accidents involving mobility scooters are recorded in the 'other' category alongside other types of vehicle. To separately provide mobility scooter statistics could be obtained only at disproportionate cost.
Railways: Electrification
Norman Baker: To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport by what date he expects a contract to have been signed to deliver each rail electrification scheme he has announced to date. [293276]
Chris Mole: On 23 July the Government announced a major £1.1 billion programme of rail electrification. The routes to be electrified are: (i) the Great Western Main Line between London and Swansea; and (ii) the line between Liverpool and Manchester via Newton-le-Willows.
As with other rail investments, both schemes will be delivered by Network Rail. Details of contracts with suppliers are a matter for Network Rail and the schemes will be completed by (i) 2017 and (ii) 2013 respectively.
Railways: Netherlands
Norman Baker: To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport what barriers to the introduction of a through high-speed service between London and Amsterdam have been identified by his Department; and what steps his Department is taking to overcome them. [293277]
Chris Mole: Government policy is to encourage competition on High Speed One from 2010 and to expand the number of European destinations available by rail from the UK. Discussions have been held with rail operators in a number of other European Union countries on providing such services, including from London to Amsterdam. The Government will require security and immigration requirements to be met by any new services. It will be for the future operator of High Speed One to market the railway and to agree terms of access with international train operators.
Roads: Accidents
Mr. Burns: To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport how many road traffic accidents involving (a) cars and (b) motorcycles in which at least one driver was found to be at fault have occurred in Essex in each of the last 10 years, broken down by the age of the driver at fault. [292183]
Paul Clark: The information requested is not collected. The reported road accident statistics do not assign fault to any of the parties involved in personal injury road accidents. The information collected by the police officer at the scene of the accident is limited to probable contributory factors which may have contributed to the accident.
Northern Ireland
Departmental Advertising
Dr. Cable: To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland on which initiatives of his Department and its agencies expenditure on advertising has been incurred in each of the last five years; how much was spent on each such initiative; and which such initiatives were advertised through the Central Office of Information. [290149]
Paul Goggins: Advertising is an important form of communication which is used by the Northern Ireland Office to inform and encourage the public to contribute to the debate around proposed changes to legislation and deliver important public safety messages to as wide an audience as possible.
The following table shows how much the Northern Ireland Office, including the Public Prosecution Service Northern Ireland and its agencies, but excluding its NDPBs, has spent on advertising initiatives in each of the last five years.
| £ | |||
| NIO core | Forensic science NI | Youth Justice Agency | |
The Northern Ireland Prison Service and the Compensation Agency had no such expenditure.
The following details each initiative, the amount spent and whether or not the Central Office of Information (COI) was used to advertise the initiative.
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