FOI requests and responses from 2008

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December

• Advertising in Guardian newspapers
• Annual profile of Premiums/Subsidies in relation to National Express East Anglia (NXEA)
• Chapter 3 of the Traffic Signs Manual  
• Consultants and consultancy firms who have worked for the Department during the past five years
• Correspondence relating to the anti third runway campaign
• Disability Equality Scheme annual progress report
• Franchise agreement between National Express East Anglia and the Department for Transport
• Guidance issued by Ministers to civil servants regarding their working habits
• Information relating to a witness statement
• Information relating to train services
• Information relating to the stopping-up of Highway Lane
• Ministerial meetings with outside interest groups
• National Express East Anglia (NXEA) franchise
• Regional and other communications information
• Request for information about the Bath Transport Package major scheme bid
• Request for information relating to premium rate lines
• Southern Metro Performance Statistics

November

• Bus Service Operators Grants
• Department spend on Advertiser-Funded or sponsored TV and radio programmes
• Entertainment allowance
• Heathrow consultation
• Legal services
• Ministerial meetings with outside interest groups
• Meetings between Ministers and Nathaniel Rothschild or Oleg Deripaska since 2005
• Non-prescribed traffic signs
• Official name for St Pancras Station
• Payments made to bailiffs
• Posts relocated outside of London
• Procurement pre-qualification questionnaires
• Proposal to withdraw passenger services from Garston (Merseyside) station
• Race Equality Scheme
• Safeguards taken with regard to regulated fares
• Sign at Heathrow airport
• Spending on legal matters 07/08
• Yellow box markings
• XL Airways

October

• Correspondence between Stephen Ladyman and ITIS Holdings
• Correspondence between the Department- Stephen Ladyman MP and ITIS Holdings
• Freedom of Information Act - Cost to the Department 
• Ministerial meetings with outside interest groups (since 18 August 2008)  
• Strategic commercial stakeholder event

September

• Applications received for authorisation of bays
• Car journey times
• Common Purpose Training
• Community Infrastructure Fund
• Cycle to work scheme
• Ministerial boxes - contracts
• Ministerial boxes
• Premiums paid by rail franchisees
• Speeding fixed penalty notices
• Stansted Airport
• Stephen Byers broadcast and print media transcripts
• Traffic sign - M/C permits
• TRA19 support documents
• Weymouth Quay Tram Way

August

• Building a new airport at Maplin
• Claims for bid costs by tenderers
• Commuter numbers - Purfleet Station to London Fenchurch Station
• Contact Information
• Department for Transport Web Team
• Department payments and receipts
• Despatch of trains from railway stations
• Domestic flights undertaken by ministers
• Ex-gratia payments to rejected bidders
• First Great Western ('FGW') Performance Measures
• Laptop losses and access restrictions
• Ministerial meetings
• Nottingham Express Transit project plan
• Overcrowding on the rail network
• Payments for research work
• Railway line survey
• Rail franchise and rolling stock
• Request for information on contrails
• Special Advisors' meetings with Tesco
• Train operator passenger counts - Autumn 2006
• Traffic sign and road marking authorisations
• Use of public affairs and public relations companies

July

• Access for all funding programme and railway station accessibility
• Chart of accounts
• Contract details for requested research projects
• Crown Copyright
• Department property sales
• DPTAC Annual Report 2006/07
• Expenditure with certain suppliers
• Fraser Eagle rail replacement bus and coach operation
• IT spending
• Local Authority Grant Payment
• Luton Airport Options for 2003 Aviation White Paper
• Ministerial meetings with outside interest groups
• Multifunctional devices- photocopiers and printers
• NaPTAN Data
• Receptions hosted by Ministers
• Regulated fares between Southampton Central/Totton and London
• Residents parking schemes
• Road marking
• Sickness absence
• South Yorkshire Passenger Transport Executive Transport Act 2000 Concessionary Fares Scheme
• Spending on legal fees
• Spend on new offices
• Staff fraud
• Stansted airport

June

• Accidents and fatalities in London and the South East boroughs by foreign professional vehicles
• Bus service operators' grant paid to Halton Transport
• DfT relocations
• Information about Cycling England
• List of authorisations for non prescribed traffic signs
• Ministerial meetings with Tes
• Ministerial meetings with outside interest groups 
• Request for contact details
• Superfast Ferry service between Rosyth and Zeebrugge
• The number of consultants engaged by the Department in the last five financial years
• Water use

May

• A127/A1159 Priory Crescent Road Widening
• Availablility of national concessionary bus smartcards
• Chief Scientific Adviser
• Congestion on the A34 M3-M40
• Contract between DfT and Trafficmaster Plc for supply of journey time data
• Cost model used to calculate MOT test fee levels
• Cycling Projects Fund Trafford Centre Manchester
• Data gathering on driving and disability statistics
• Faber Maunsell
• Handling of personal data
• Meetings attended by the minister for shipping
• Ministerial meetings with outside interest groups
• Money spent on road safety
• Proposed Westbury Bypass
• Southeastern rail franchise
• Summary of the road grants

April

• Accidents on motorways
• Aviation Health Working Group (AHWG) appointment
• DfT employee's laptops and personal digital assistants
• Information on abnormal events involving the transport of radioactive material in the UK
• Ministerial meetings with outside interest groups
• National Roadside Survey of Vehicle Excise Duty (VED)
• Non-prescribed box junction markings in London
• Urban bus challenge bids
• Vehicle Excise Duty Evasion Survey 2007
• Yellow box junctions
• 60mph speed limit on the M42 Active Traffic Management pilot

March

• Community transport travel time and risk assessment
• Estates and facilities management documents
• Facilities/estates/property-related staff employed by the Department for Transport
• Kingston Park and Bankfoot permit zone
• Highway Code consultation responses
• Meetings between National Grid and DfT
• Meeting with Boeing
• Portsmouth City Council disabled parking bays
• Project for the Sustainable Development of Heathrow (PSDH)
• Southeastern’s Penalty Fares scheme
• Smoking in cars and accident causation
• Train operating companies

February

• Designation of public private partnership (PPP) agreements
• Ministerial meetings with outside interest groups
• Ministerial meetings with outside interest groups
• Speechwriting services
• Transport of radioactive materials
• Templates and guidance used for Ministerial submissions

January

• Access for All funding programme
• Casualties from road accidents involving a trailer
• Domestic flights taken by ministers
• Fee raising powers of DVLA and DSA
• First Capital Connect
• MAIB’s investigation into the loss of yacht Ouzo
• Ministerial Christmas cards
• Ministerial meetings with outside interest groups
• Noise levels near Heathrow airport
• Plymouth City Airport (PCA)
• Proposed Nottingham Express Transit Order: Cost of public inquiry
• Secure stations scheme
• Shock advertising research
• St Pancras Station
• Tyne and Wear Passenger Transport Executive (Nexus) and Local Government Transport conference