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Biomass and Combined Heat & Power Plant-these technologies are being considered as part of boiler replacement programmes in the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency;
Motorway Lighting-the Highways Agency is running a number of pilots where motorway lighting is switched off during certain off-peak, low usage periods.
Departmental Mobile Phones
Mr. Graham Stuart: To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport how many (a) mobile telephones and (b) BlackBerrys were provided to (i) Ministers and (ii) special advisers in each year since 2007-08; and at what cost to the public purse. [313170]
Chris Mole: The details are as follows:
| 2007-08 | 2008-09 | 2009-10 to date | ||||
| Number | Cost (£) | Number | Cost (£) | Number | Cost (£) | |
Departmental Pay
Grant Shapps: To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport how much funding his Department has allocated for (a) year-end and (b) in-year bonuses for its staff in 2009-10. [307029]
Chris Mole: An element of the Department for Transport's overall pay award is allocated to non-consolidated variable pay related to performance. These payments are used to drive high performance and form part of the pay award for members of staff who demonstrate exceptional performance, for example by exceeding targets set or meeting challenging objectives.
Non-consolidated variable pay awards are funded from within existing pay bill controls, and have to be re-earned each year against pre-determined targets and,
as such, do not add to future pay bill costs. The percentage of the pay bill set aside for performance-related awards for the SCS is based on recommendations from the independent Senior Salaries Review Body.
The wages and salary budget for 2009-10 is £546,266,100, of which non-consolidated performance payments represents an estimated range of 1.7 to 2 per cent.
Departmental Public Expenditure
David Simpson: To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport how much his Department spent on (a) new furnishings, (b) works of art and (c) new vehicles in each of the last two years. [312522]
Chris Mole: The information requested for the Department for Transport and its seven executive agencies is provided in the following table.
| £ | |||||||||||
| (a) New furnishings | (b) Art | (c) New vehicles | |||||||||
| Organisational unit | 2008-09 | 2007-08 | 2008-09 | 2007-08 | 2008-09 | 2007-08 | |||||
| (1)( )Data not recorded as a specific cost category within the accounting system in use and only available at disproportionate cost. (2)( )During 2007 to 2009 DVLA was in the process of refurbishing its Morriston site under a PFI contract. DVLA are unable to accurately provide a breakdown of the furnishing costs. (3)( )Purchased. (4)( )Leased. Note: The Highways Agency: Data at (a) include furniture, office refurbishments and fit-out costs for offices and regional control centres. The increase in the 2008-09 vehicle purchase costs is due to the Highways Agency entering into a four-year framework contract on 2 January 2008 with two suppliers; Romaquip and Schmidt UK, for the purchase of over 430 salt spreaders and snow ploughs to replace its current fleet. The costs for 2008-09 relate to the first-year order comprising of a total of 159 salt spreaders, all equipped with snow ploughs, and a further 40 additional snow ploughs. The vehicles used by Highways Agency Traffic Officers are leased. The figures quoted are the total cost of the vehicle leasing contracts for each of the two years. Leasing payments cover the cost of the vehicles, servicing, maintenance, tyres and windscreens, etc. Most vehicles are leased for 18 months, or 150,000 miles. There are now 207 Traffic Officer Vehicles in the fleet. | |||||||||||
Norman Baker: To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport how much his Department (a) budgeted to spend and (b) spent from (i) the Total Annual Managed Expenditure budget and (ii) the Departmental Expenditure Limit budget for 2008-09. [312553]
Chris Mole: The information requested is set out in the following table:
| 2008-09 | ||
| £ million | ||
| Budget | Outturn | |
Norman Baker:
To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport how much his Department
(a) budgeted to spend and (b) spent from (i) the Annually Managed Expenditure budget and (ii) the Departmental Expenditure Limit budget for 2009-10. [312555]
Chris Mole: The information requested is set out in the following table:
| 2009-10 | ||
| £ million | ||
| Budget | Spend to date (end December 2009) | |
Norman Baker: To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport how much his Department (a) budgeted to spend and (b) spent from the Annually Managed Expenditure budget on (i) Departmental Strategic Objective (DSO) 1, (ii) DSO 2, (iii) DSO 3, (iv) DSO 4 and (v) DSO 5 for 2008-09. [312556]
Chris Mole: The in year budget for 2008-09 was not set against departmental strategic objectives. The outturn is set out in the following table:
| Annually managed expenditure, 2008-09 | |
| Outturn (£ million) | |
Norman Baker: To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport how much his Department (a) budgeted to spend and (b) spent from the Departmental Expenditure Limit budget on (i) Departmental Strategic Objective (DSO) 1, (ii) DSO 2, (iii) DSO 3, (iv) DSO 4 and (v) DSO 5 for 2008-09. [312557]
Chris Mole: The in year budget for 2008-09 is not set against departmental strategic objectives. The spend to date is set out in the following table:
| Departmental expenditure limit, 2008-09 | |
| Outturn (£ million) | |
Norman Baker: To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport how much his Department (a) budgeted to spend and (b) spent to date from the Annually Managed Expenditure Budget on (i) Departmental Strategic Objective (DSO) 1, (ii) DSO 2, (iii) DSO 3, (iv) DSO 4 and (v) DSO 5 for 2009-10. [312558]
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