FOI 2007 archive
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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 (Nov)
- 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 (Sept)
- 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 (July)
- 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 (July)
- 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 (Feb)
- 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 (Jan)
- 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










