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Dept for Transport

Answer

Mr. Don Foster: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to his answer of 25 June 2002, Official Report, column 773W, on light transport schemes, if he will (a) list the occasions on which his Department has met the promoters of individual schemes, giving the scheme and promoter in each case, (b) list the schemes to which information, support and guidance has been given and (c) list the occasions on which workshops on light rail and guided bus schemes have taken place, giving the scheme on each occasion, since 7 June 2001. [66046] Mr. Jamieson: The following charts contain the available information on meetings and workshops. In addition, information, support and guidance has been provided by my Department and the relevant Government Office to the promoters of every scheme to the extent requested, by telephone, email or post. List A--Meetings held with promoters of light rail schemes since 7 June 2001 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Scheme and Promoter Number of meetings Blackpool Tram--Blackpool borough council 2 Bristol and South Gloucestershire Tram Scheme--Bristol city 3 council and South Gloucester council Croydon Tramlink 2 Docklands LR 1 Hull LRT--Hull city council 1 Leeds Supertram--West Yorkshire Passenger Transport Executive 3 Manchester Metrolink Extensions--Greater Manchester Passenger 9 Transport Executive Merseytram--Merseytravel 5 Midland Metro--Centro 1 Nottingham Express Transit--Nottingham city council 3 South Hampshire Rapid Transit--Hampshire county council 2 South Yorkshire Supertram Extensions--South Yorkshire Passenger 3 Transport Executive Meetings held with promoters of guided bus schemes since 7 June 2001 Barnsley Interchange and Busway--South Yorkshire Passenger 1 Transport Executive South Bradford Integrated Transport Scheme--Bradford city council 1 Cambridge Guided Bus--Cambridge county council 1 Cambridge Guided Bus--Cambridge Rapid Transport System 1 (Commercial) Chester Deeside Transport Scheme--Chester city council 2 Doncaster Bus--South Yorkshire Passenger Transport Executive 4 Crawley Fastway--West Sussex county council 3 Kent Fastrack--Kent county council 2 Leeds A65--West Yorkshire Passenger Transport Executive 1 Luton-Dunstable Translink--Bedfordshire county council and Luton 5 borough council _________________________________________________________________________________________________. List B--Workshops _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Workshops Workshop on monitoring processes for light 29 June 2001 Approximately 45 attended from various rail schemes in operation promoters. Workshop on light rail appraisal 21 February 2002 Approximately 45 attended from various promoters. Workshop on other major public transport 1 March 2002 Approximately 50 attended from various schemes including guided bus promoters. `Surgery' on funding/appraisal issues before 19 and 20 June 2002 Attendance included one guided bus scheme. submission of annual progress reports (31 July 2002) _________________________________________________________________________________________________.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

388 c218-20W; 66046

Session

2001-02

Subjects

Bus services Rapid transit systems Trains Trams Information services

Contains statistics

Yes

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