The DfT and DSA websites have been redeveloped. Some DfT and DSA content that was published before 10 June 2011 is now only available through the DfT web archive. For the most up to date content visit:

• Freedom of Information responses

The following content is available from the Department for Transport web archive .

• DfT 2008 FOI responses
• DSA 2008 FOI responses

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 (Dec)
• 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 (Nov)
• 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 (July)
• 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 (June)
• 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 (May)
• Money spent on road safety
• Proposed Westbury Bypass
• 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 (April)
• 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 (February)
• 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 (Jan)
• 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

DSA FOI archive 2008

• ADI pay structure
• Applications for PDIs and Trainees
• Approved ADI below grade 4 at check test in the last 12 months
• Are targets set for the percentage of tests carried out in line with the candidate’s stated appointment times? Is there a policy (formal or informal) of cancelling appointments so that later appointment times are met?
• Arrive Alive information
• Basic pay on full time equivalents of male driving examiners
• Breakdown of total salary payments for each grade of DSA staff
• Car and motorcycle test pass rates in Hereford for the last 2 financial years
• Car, bike and check tests stats
• Complaints about driving instructors in 2007
• Complaints and grievance cases of staff
• Correlation between individual’s driving test failed attempts and subsequent accidents/convictions.
• Data from dual brake survey carried out by DSA from April 2007 to March 2008
• Data on reported assaults and attempted bribes on driving examiners during financial year of 2007/08
• Data on reported assaults and attempted bribes on driving examiners during financial year of 2007/08
• Data on reported impersonation cases on practical tests including the top 3 highest reporting centres
• Dismissals statistics
• Documentation on the decision making process covering the closures of Brighton Driving Test Centre and Hove Driving Test Centre
• DQM statistics
• Driver Quality Monitoring
• Driving instructors, new drivers and the increase in driver numbers
• Driving instructors, new drivers and the increase in driver numbers
• DSA consultancy figures on items shown as excluded from table on DfT Annual Report
• Estates Savings
• Executive Board and Strategies
• Figures on ADI Trainee Licences & pass data for the last available year
• Figures on reported assaults, grievances lodged and ‘work-related stress’ sick leave taken by driving examiners in 2005, 2006 and 2007
• HGV and PSV test pass statistics for delegated/DSA Driving Examiners in 2007
• HGV and PSV test pass statistics for delegated/DSA Driving Examiners in 2007
• How many authorised and associated (delegated) examiners were there in 2005 – 2007
• How many motorcycle riders meet an accident while learning to ride, doing CBT (Compulsory Bike Training) or taking a motorcycle test?
• Income and expenditure for Gainsborough Driving Test Centre over the last 5 years
• Information about electronic assessments taken as part of the recent Test Centre Manager promotion board.
• Information request regarding Theory Test voiceover in Persian and Farsi
• Information requested about a possible contractual relationship between DSA and indextools.com
• Lease arrangements
• Lease payments
• List of DTCs and outstations that will close in the next 12 & 24 months and DTCs to remain open due to the extension of the start of the new motorcycle test
• List of DTCs which conduct motorcycle practical tests that are due to be closed and the dates of any planned closures
• Minimum number of tests conducted by authorised/ associated (delegated) examiners
• National average waiting times.
• National average waiting times.
• New drivers taking up the Pass Plus scheme over the last 3 years
• Number of applications made for a recent senior examiner promotion board and the number of BME staff who applied
• Number of bus drivers assessed under the Driver Quality Monitoring scheme during the financial year 2007/08.
• Number of candidates passing their practical test with no driving faults recorded
• Number of motorcycle practical tests passed each year since 1980
• Number of phone calls received by DSA from the public on the national enquiry and booking lines that are terminated with message for each of the past 12 calendar months
• Number of practical car tests taken at Trowbridge DTC between April 2006 and March 2008 by postcode
• Number of refused tests in Enfield and nationally
• Number of successful candidates on the latest Test Centre Manager Board
• Number of theory tests taken per year by category
• Number of unsuitable vehicles presented for test
• Pass rates and complaints at Hither Green, Belvedere and Sidcup test centres
• Pass rates and learner driver statistics. Statistics on approved driving instructors on the register
• Pass rates and learner driver statistics. Statistics on approved driving instructors on the register
• Pass rates and number of attempts to pass for practical car tests nationwide and for Elswick DTC
• Pass rates for light goods vehicles tests
• Pass rates for various Test Centres in Scotland and information about approved and potential Driving Instructors on the register
• Pass/Fail statistics for Grimsby DTC
• Persian voice overs for theory test
• Planned number, budget and expenditure of Multi-Purpose Test Centres (MPTC)
• Practical motorcycle tests at Grimsby, Cleethorpes and Lincoln DTC between 1998 and 2008
• Practical Test records
• Quality assurance tests conducted on authorised examiners
• Referrals to the police for impersonations of driving test candidates
• Request for geographical numbers, details of any profits made and the name of the telephony provider for various telephone numbers
• Request for Statistical data on Theory tests.
• Request for various statistics on approved and trainee driving instructors
• SLA for downtime in relation to test booking system
• Special needs theory tests conducted over the last two years
• Staff and spending dedicated to communications
• Statistics on driving examiners, test centre waiting times and pass rates in Wales
• Statistics on the number of Driving Examiners employed and their Black or Minority Ethnicity as of January 2008
• Statistics requested on candidates taking the computer-based test as part of the recent Test Centre Manager promotion board
• Statistics requested on the number of passes and fault marks on practical tests.
• Statistics required on approved and potential driving instructors on the register
• Tests abandoned due to accidents
• The number of ADI’s removed from the register due to unsuccessful CRB checks
• The number of males and females employed by the DSA and DVLA in 1990, 1997 and currently
• The number of motorcycle practical and theory tests undertaken in 2005, 2006 and 2007 at Barrow-in-Furness, Carlisle, Kendal and Whitehaven Test Centres.
• Theory test candidates who have taken the test in other languages
• Theory test candidates who have taken the test in other languages
• Theory test statistics
• Theory test statistics
• Theory test statistics
• Theory test statistics
• Theory test statistics
• Theory tests taken in 2007
• VAT paid by the DSA on any rebate received from telecommunications companies relating to call minutes
• Why did the Chief Executive not attend the opening of St Helens MPTC? (multi-purpose test centre)