FOI requests and responses from 2007

The content in this section has been archived and is available from the National Archives website.

December

• Accounting practice method for recording consultant expenditure
• Consultancy expenditure figures
• DfT Disability Equality scheme
• Frameworks for the provision of management consultancy services
• Metronet contracts
• Private hire vehicles in bus lanes
• Report on evaluating the success of cycle networks and future predictions  
• Special Advisers' meetings with commercial representatives
• Parliamentary monitoring tendering
• Traffic calming (road humps)

November

• European Union Air Quality Limit Values
• Failure or defect in the vessel's navigation systems
• Fishing vessel accidents from 1990 to 2007
• Government subsidies to national express
• Highways Agency's Major Roads Programme and the LTP Programme of Major Schemes
• Incidents involving leisure mariners and alcohol
• Ministerial meetings with outside interest groups
• Passenger counts for Silverlink services
• Plymouth City Airport
• Regional funding allocations
• Statistics involving fatalities or serious for road traffic accidents
• Vehicles owned or operated by the DfT and its agencies
• Versions of the Highway Code

October

• Air services between UK and Taiwan
• Decision to abolish the Rail Passengers Committees and the Rail Passengers Council
• Fast Stream scheme
• Government subsidies to Stagecoach plc
• Impact of passenger numbers from the CTRL on the underground services
• Legal requirements for cycle lanes
• Rules for cyclists in the proposed revised Highway Code
• Movements of Boeing 767-33AER
• Number of vehicles on the road without a valid MOT
• Safety camera partnerships in England and Wales
• Subject indexes of transportation taxonomies
• Yellow box marking authorisations

September

• Access to environmental information on road schemes and climate change
• Actions on recommendations made in two DfT commissioned reports
• Criminal attacks on speed cameras
• Data of passenger fatality rates by mode of transport
• Department for Transport's Procurement Portal
• Maintenance depots operated by Maintrain Ltd
• Ministerial meetings with outside interest groups
• Proposed Kingskerswell bypass
• SLA between DfT and the DVLA concerning the collection of Vehicle Excise Duty (VED)
• Traffic flows and projected traffic growth on the M1
• Vehicle Excise Duty (VED) Collection and Enforcement Governance Boards
• West London Tram project
• West Midlands Franchise Agreement between Govia and the Department for Transport

August

• A628/A626 Mottram -Tintwistle bypass
• Correspondence- information and minutes of meetings between DfT and Ferrovial
• Fifth Year Report into the National Safety Camera Programme
• Growth of transport network in Northamptonshire and discussions with BeeBee developments
• Invitation to Tender document for the East Midlands Railway Franchise
• Number of accidents around the Cornish coast
• Pedicab (or cycle rickshaw) industry in London and across the UK
• Personal injury road accidents and casualties on the A330 and Cocks Lane / Winkfield Lane crossroads
• PPAD 9/28/16 – Provisions of search and rescue helicopter services
• Priory Crescent road widening in Southend on Sea
• Trains using Watford Junction in the last year where passenger numbers exceeded capacity
• VED Collection Memorandum of Understanding agreed between the Department and the Treasury
• Vehicle private hire licences
• Yellow box marking at junction of New Kings Road and Bagleys Lane

July

• Accidents caused by positively tested drunk drivers
• Accidents due to alarm problems
• Accidents involving drivers using foreign-issued licences
• Casualties involving power driven ships
• Concessionary Travel Scheme Appeals
• Contracts that the DfT has for consultancy services for congestion charging
• Corporate social responsibility- performance and reputation
• Communications between the DfT and LCC in relation to the decriminalised parking enforcement regime
• Correspondence relating to the Heysham to M6 Link
• Disabled parking spaces at railway stations
• Discussions with the airline industry in relation to drug and alcohol testing
• Drivers travelling on busy routes
• Figures for leisure craft deaths stated in safety digest 1/2007
• Figures for WAGN train service between Hitchin and London
• Fires mentioned in Star Princess report
• FOI responses available only in hard copy format
• GoVia running the South Eastern franchise
• Heysham to M6 Link Road
• ICT strategy
• Meetings held between DfT officials with Rolls Royce- Airbus and others
• Ministerial meetings with outside interest groups for April 2007
• Ministerial meetings with outside interest groups
• MV Havila Tigris accident
• Navigational warnings and casualties figures on firing practices
• North London Line between Stratford and Canning Town
• Outboard engines used on safety boats 
• Pan Am flight 103 cargo manifest request
• Performance of Great Northern train operating companies
• Policy on body searches
• Project for the sustainable development of Heathrow  
• Rail freight grants
• Road signs at Poole Quay
• Rotherwas access roads business case
• Street access to platform 2 at Birmingham Moor Street station
• Short listed bidders for the West Midlands rail franchise
• SS Californian's role in the Titanic disaster of 1912
• Ten most overcrowded train services
• Vessels above 100 tonnes in size sinking
• Written communications relating to Manchester's bids on TI funds

June

• Information on responders to the PIN Notice
• Material held by DfT in relation to the Newcastle Journal's 'Go for jobs' campaign
• Reports and information on stability and safety of RIBS
• Research into expected reduction in road casualties resulting from the use of car restraints  
• Statistics on incidents in the LNG shipping industry within the last year
• Statistics on incident reports and near miss reports from the Western Solent area

May

• British Transport Police (BTP) review report
• Correspondence between DfT- GOSW and Dorset County Council regarding the Weymouth Relief Road
• Details on operational costs of MAIB  
• DfT's current Government Contact Centres services which are outsourced to the private sector
• DfT correspondence from and to Hampshire County Council
• Financial returns of the Lancashire Partnership for Road Safety
• Further detail of Eddington evidence base
• Greater Western Rail Franchise
• Information on road markings
• Information on the A350 Westbury bypass
• Ministerial meetings with outside interest groups for March 2007
• Minutes of meetings held between GMPTE and DfT
• Progress meetings between the DfT and English regions on Regional Funding Allocations
• Scope of the 2006 Air Transport White Paper Progress report
• Statutory duty of local authorities to maintain roads
• Thameslink Bedford to London rail route
• Unique hits and page impressions recorded for the Act on CO2 website

April

• Attitudes to aircraft noise
• Cycle to Work employer cycle purchase scheme
• Followup request for details and names of officals involved in decision making process
• Gifts received - and subsequently declared
• Information about damage to tugs caused by collisions
• Strategic Rail Authority's freight train operating cost model reference manual April 2005
• The Act on CO2 campaign
• Unpublished documents involving a review of the operation of coach services

March

• Carriage of people- luggage and pets in vehicles
• Communications regarding road pricing schemes
• Copies of drafts held by the DfT of the Nichols report
• Documents deposited in the library of the House of Commons
• First Great Western Services on the Oxford- Didcot and Thames Valley routes
• FOI requests relating to speed camera location and fixed penalties incurred
• Goods procured on a fairtrade basis
• Impact of DVO plans for a single enforcement budget
• Information into the potential impact of road pricing
• Information on closed files held by the DfT
• Investigation into the wider effects of speed cameras
• Locations of cameras in London and their effectiveness
• Lastec 20/20 laser speed detection device
• Main railway line at Dawlish- Devon
• Ministerial meetings with outside interest groups for December 2006
• NPAS Traffic Law Seminar in Leeds
• Numerical value of a particular collision incident
• Performance statistics for First Capital Connect running south of the Thames
• Research proposal for the DfT Horizons project
• Rolling stock not sold to new TOCs following the privatisation of British Rail
• Total cost of the Crossrail scheme
• Traffic sign authorisation for 'fixed daily charge' sign for Newcastle City Council
• Volumes of calls received from the public to DfT call centres
• WHO statements referred to in Aviation Health Working Group minutes

February

• Airlines subject to operating bans in past several years
• Correspondence relating to the Heysham to M6 link
• Disabled Persons Transport Advisory Committee
• Effects of seat belt wearing and legislation
• Information on health and safety issues related to hiring of narrow boats
• Major outsourcing ICT and business contracts greater than £1m per annum
• Meetings which have occurred between ministers and outside interest groups
• Notes from meeting with John Spellar and Chief Executive of EWS Railways
• Number of HA and DfT FOI responses not posted on the web
• Number of invoices received by the DfT during 2005-06 and any plans for e-invoicing
• Number of speed cameras operating in the UK
• Participants in tender process
• Regional traffic- delay and speed forecasts using the National Transport Model
• Request for inspector's notes taken during an informal meeting
• Road site location of mobile speed cameras
• Statistics on vessels above 20-000 DWT involved with weather damage

January

• Approval of the extensions of the Metrolink system
• Associated costs for the DfT's correspondence tracking system
• Chiltern Railways December 2006 timetable
• Commission for Integrated Transport
• DfT web archiving policy
• FOI responses available only in hard copy format
• Incidents involving tugs or lack of tugs in the past 10 years
• Master- bridge team and pilot relationship during pilotage
• Nottingham Express Transit Phase 2 assessed by the scheme promoter
• Operation of Sunderland City Council's decriminalised parking enforcement scheme
• Press Complaints Commission
• Size of permitted hand luggage on aeroplanes
• Statistics on the number of accidents involving single handed sailors in the UK
• Statistics relating to ro-ro ferries
• Statements issued by the DfT regarding security at UK Airports
• Structural integrity of carbon composite masts on yachts
• Truvelo camera located on Wortley Road- Rotherham
• Tenders for contracts let April 2005 - March 2006