FOI requests and responses from 2006

The content in this section has been archived and is available from the National Archives website.

December

• Airline passenger name record data
• Review of British Transport Police undertaken by DfT 2005-2006
• SAFA inspection findings in UK for 2003 to 2005
• Statistics for marine sand and gravel extraction and commercial sea dredging
• Unique visitors by month to each section of the DfT website

November

• Details of current UK air services agreement with Pakistan
• Details on the firing order imposed on the Grand Turk
• Elmbridge Borough Council's decriminalised parking enforcement application
• Heysham to M6 link road
• Revenue from speed cameras in Nottingham in the past year
• Total amount spent by the DfT on Christmas cards in the last financial year
• Wrecks of merchant ships sunk by enemy action in the two world wars

October

• Central Railway reports
• Data on the number of accidents arising from lost containers
• DfT staff reductions in Wales since 2004 and planned reductions up to 2008
• Final report to the SRA
• ICT expenditure budget for 2006/7
• Letter regarding the movement of US aircraft in the UK
• New mean speed method of setting speed limits
• Number of accidents on the A460 at Shareshill and Featherstone in Staffordshire
• Policy and processes developed by the DfT to implement the Alcatel decision
• Risk Potential hazard of booster seats leading to head/neck injuries
• Roads schemes completed since 2000
• Safety studies relating to SPECS average speed cameras
• Sky marshals travelling on flights from UK airports to any destination

September

• Aircraft carrying bombs which landed at Prestwick airport
• Communications from the Assurance Officer regarding the Hagley Road camera site
• Consultation by First Great Western prior to announcement of fare increases
• FOI responses available only in hard copy format
• Material held by DfT on proposals to extend the Sheffield Supertram
• Ministerial meetings with outside interest groups from March to June 2006
• Ministerial meetings with outside interest groups July 2006
• Ministerial meetings with outside interest groups July 2006
• Northwest Passengers that do not proceed southwards beyond Birmingham new street
• Number of questions relating to the Department's revision of speed limits
• Number of reports made to RAIB over the course of one year
• Regulations and Directions in relation to the British Transport Police Authority
• Ships with contaminated fuel
• Swindon - Westbury Trains Service

August

• Appraisal documents for the Cambridgeshire Guided Busway scheme
• Data regarding recreational vessel fatalities between 2000 and 2004
• Dockyard Port of Portsmouth Order
• FOI responses available only in hard copy format
• Lower Road- Fletcher Road and Neville Sadler Court in Beeston- Nottingham
• Information on seafarers disappearing at sea
• Injuries involving access to vessels under 24m during mooring operations
• Risk assessment information and statistics on kayak and canoe incidents
• Statistics on alcohol related accidents in 2005
• Warning signs- enforcement vehicles and the use of safety cameras

July

• Accidents and incidents in the Liverpool Bay area
• Accuracy of the LTI 20.20 safety camera
• Analyses and reports to the Energy Review
• Analyses and reports to the forthcoming Stern review
• Content management system
• Contracts held with independent public relations consultants
• High speed rail link from Scotland to London
• Ministerial meetings with outside interest groups from March to June 2006
• Progress reporting for IT projects
• Rail related projects
• Shared services centre and programme details
• Statistics and information on pilot transfer incidents
• South Hampshire Rapid Transit

June

• Accident records for the past 5 years for Milford Haven Port Authority
• Accidents on the A647 Stanningley bypass
• Contracts awarded to Capita Group and its subsidiaries by the DfT since May 2002
• Data Protection Act (DPA) Registration for Traffic Commissioners
• Data relating to incidents involving the listing of large crude oil tankers
• Disposal of surplus DfT IT equipment
• Eurocontrol UK Flight Plan Data as released to the Council of Europe
• FOI responses available only in hard copy format
• Government policy on additions to the Network Rail regulatory asset base
• ICEC open access arrangements
• Incidents identified as relating to the launch/recovery of lifeboats and similar
• Off-shoring of work associated with the shared service programme
• Private interests of Ministers since 1 May 1997
• Refunds and compensation paid out by safety camera partnerships
• Statistics on number of fishing vessels involved in gear-snagging incidents
• Television sets and licences for the DfT
• West Coast Main Line progress report

May

• Effects of possible open access on the East Coast
• Effectiveness of the speed cameras on the edge of Basingstoke on the A339
• FOI responses available only in hard copy format
• Improvements at Birmingham New Street railway station
• Letter mentioned in Transit magazine in relation to the review of BTP
• Motorway speed limit
• Section 5 of the Civil Aviation Act 1982
• Stations accredited- re-accredited and lapsed under the Secure Stations Scheme
• The award of the franchise contract to One
• Yellow box junction at Southampton Row/Proctor Street

April

• Comments from the Statutory Bodies on the Connecting Derby scheme
• Contact details for all school travel advisers appointed by local authorities
• Correspondence between BACIT and the Department with regard to NET extensions
• Correspondence between the Department and BCT- BCBRA and ENT since February 2004
• Correspondence relating to track access applications by Grand Central and GNER
• Documents sent or received by SoS concerning Leeds Supertram
• Eurocontrol UK flight plan data as released to the Council of Europe
• FOI responses available only in hard copy format
• Franchise payments for ONE railway and GNER from 2005 to 2006
• Number of passengers travelling from UK airports to foreign destinations
• Number of DfT employees with DV security clearance
• Survivability of persons on fishing vessels
• The crash of VN449 in Vietnam on 14 November 1992
• The Department's videoconferencing facilities

March

• Benefit Cost Ratios (BCR) for Local Transport Plan schemes
• Congestion on trains
• Costs of the study 'Valuation of the Historic Environment'
• Exemption of Blue Badge holders parked in loading bays
• FOI responses available only in VCR format
• Funding for the Tunstall Northern Bypass  
• Information relating to ministerial conflicts of interests
• Marine accidents statistics between 1995-2000
• Ministerial meetings with outside interest groups in September 2005
• Monthly liaison meetings between the MCA- DfT and the Scottish Executive
• Notice relating to the invitation to tender for the Greater Western franchise published in 2004
• Optimism bias in the shared services programme business case
• Ship-to-ship oil transfers in Scotland's Firth of Forth
• Statistics for ship collisions over the past 10 years
• The Connect Contract and London Underground Limited (LUL)
• The draft EU/US Open Skies agreement
• The proposed ministerial submission template

February

• Alleged contaminated air events
• Closure dates to passengers at each former British Rail station
• Contract awards that have been subject to a formal investigation  
• Data about marine accidents in which communication errors have occurred
• Effects of illegal cycling on Government policy
• Expenditure on Suffolk Roads over last 30 years
• FOI responses available only in hard copy format
• Information about the Department's contracts with DBI Consulting
• Information relating to renegotiation of IT contracts 
• List of all local authorities which operate a decriminalised parking enforcement
• Optical Guided Bus Systems
• Public sector vehicles using reflective livery
• Statistics showing crimes reported to the British Transport Police
• The Department's contract with PA Consulting Group
• The Thameslink/GN franchise award to First Group
• The Merseytram scheme
• Traffic sign authorisations

January

• A list of all the Freedom of Information requests that have been asked
• Correspondence about the removal of rolling stock
• FOI responses available only in hard copy format
• ICT contracts and the Shared Service Review
• Information about a number of named companies carrying out work for DfT
• Information about the London-Penzance sleeper train service
• Information about the quantity of printed materials
• Meetings with First Group where the fast transit bus was discussed
• Northern Rail services
• Passenger screening trials
• Taxi licensing in South Somerset
• The development costs and number of users of the Transport Direct website
• The 4th year report of the camera partnership programme
• Virgin Trains franchise agreement letter