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Supply of Extended Warranties on Domestic Electrical Goods Order 2005
Lord Hodgson of Astley Abbotts asked Her Majesty's Government:
Why the consultation period on the Supply of Extended Warranties on Domestic Electrical Goods Order 2005 (S.I.2005/37) was only one month long and ended on 20 December 2004. [HL1218]
Lord Sainsbury of Turville: The Government held two rounds of public consultation on the Supply of Extended Warranties on Domestic Electrical Goods Order 2005. The first period ran for 12 weeks from 28 July 2004 to 22 October 2004. The Government then revised the order after reviewing the representations received. The second round of consultation was a supplementary one and therefore ran for a shorter timescale of 30 days, from 18 November 2004 to 20 December 2004.
Information and Consultation of Employees Regulations 2004
Lord Hodgson of Astley Abbotts asked Her Majesty's Government:
Who is responsible for organising the ballot and counting the votes in an election to be held under Regulation 14 of the Information and Consultation of Employees Regulations 2004 (S.I.2004/3426). [HL1219]
Lord Sainsbury of Turville: Under Regulation 14 of the Information and Consultation of Employees Regulations 2004, negotiating representatives may either be elected in a ballot, or appointed by employees directly. If a ballot is held, the employer must ensure that all employees are entitled to take part in the election and that the employees are all represented during subsequent negotiations. One way of doing this would be to appoint an independent ballot supervisor to oversee the election.
Pesticides Safety Directive Study
The Countess of Mar asked Her Majesty's Government:
Further to the Written Answer by the Lord Whitty on 4 February (Official Report, cols. WA 68–69), on what evidence from:
(b) non-human mammalian toxicological data;
(c) general practitioner medical records;
(d) pesticide company doctor medical records;
(e) Health and Safety Executive Employment Medical Advisory Service medical records;
(f) information provided by the National Poisons Information Service;
(g) data from biochemical investigation tests; and
the Pesticides Safety Directorate has concluded that "62 incidents . . . did not demonstrate a causal link between the pesticide and symptoms described". [HL1364]
The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Lord Whitty): The Pesticides Safety Directorate has not drawn any conclusions from the limited data submitted. The reports provided in response to this exercise do not contain the toxicological data or medical records necessary to demonstrate proof of a causal link. The results of the study have been sent to the Advisory Committee on Pesticides (ACP) and the Health and Safety Executive's Pesticides Incident Appraisal Panel (PIAP) which are currently considering them.
Freight Transport
Lord Berkeley asked Her Majesty's Government:
For each trunk road or motorway, how many lorry journeys would be added to road traffic volumes if the current levels of support for company neutral revenue support were cancelled. [HL1227]
Lord Davies of Oldham: The Government do not intend to cancel their support for rail freight activity
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that takes lorry traffic off the roads. Indeed, the Government have just announced that up to £2 million of additional money will be made available in each of the next two years for new applications for company neutral revenue support and track access grant.
The SRA expects that CNRS will support around 650,000 container movements on rail in 2004–05. All of these movements are potential lorry journeys, although details of the roads that each would have used are not available.
A12
Lord Marlesford asked Her Majesty's Government:
Whether they will list by date, cause and location, fatal accidents which have occurred since 1978 on the section of the A12 road between the north end of the Wickham Market bypass and Blythborough. [HL1263]
Lord Davies of Oldham: Her Majesty's Government do not hold records over such a length of time nor in the detail requested for this section of road which although a trunk road until 2001, has since been the responsibility of Suffolk County Council as local highway authority.
Lord Marlesford asked Her Majesty's Government:
Whether they are satisfied with the safety of the A12 road from Ipswich to Yarmouth since it was detrunked; and whether they have plans to retrunk it. [HL1264]
Lord Davies of Oldham: The A12 was detrunked between Ipswich and just south of the Bascule Bridge, Lowestoft, early in 2001.
Since then it has been the responsibility of Suffolk County Council as local highway authority. It is for the council to take a view on the safety of the road and to consider and, if appropriate, bring forward, improvements. The Government have no plans to retrunk this section of the road.
Vehicle Registration Certificates: Fraud
Lord Pendry asked Her Majesty's Government:
How many prosecutions have been made of those who are alleged to have forged signatures or committed other acts of fraud on Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency form D5. [HL1283]
Lord Davies of Oldham: The Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency does not take forward prosecutions of those who are alleged to have forged signatures or committed other acts of fraud on the vehicle registration certificate. This is a matter for the police. The agency has no information on the number of prosecutions taken forward in this area.
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