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Road Accident Prevention

Answer

The chief executive of Roads Service (Dr. Malcolm McKibbin) has been asked to write to the hon. Lady in response to this question.Letter from Dr. Malcolm McKibbin, dated 9 February 2006:"You recently asked the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland a Parliamentary Question regarding how much has been spent in each of the last 10 years on measures to prevent road traffic accidents in the Province.""I have been asked to reply as this issue falls within my responsibility as Chief Executive of Roads Service.""Improving road safety is a significant factor in developing the vast majority of schemes that are funded from Roads Service's capital budget. Within that budget the programmes that are specifically targeted at reducing road traffic collisions are the collision remedial and traffic calming programmes.""Expenditure in each of the last 10 financial years on collision remedial and traffic calming across Northern Ireland was:"

		£000
	Collision Remedial	Traffic Calming
1996–97	1,376	570
1997–98	1,514	1,161
1998–99	1,423	1,352
1999–2000	1,557	1,179
2000–01	1,595	1,027
2001–02	1,658	1,545
2002–03	1,589	1,859
2003–04	1,976	2,011
2004–05	2,605	2,549
2005–06	2,410	2,715
Total	17,703	15,968
(18) Anticipated expenditure in this financial year

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Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

442 c1416-7W;442 c1416-7W; 49386

Session

2005-06

Subjects

Accidents Expenditure Northern Ireland Safety Roads

Contains statistics

Yes

Link

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