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Dept for Transport

Answer

Mr. Sedgemore: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport if he will set out, with statistical information relating as directly as possible to Maidenhead constituency, the effects on Maidenhead of his Department's policies and actions since 2 May 1997. [216025] Charlotte Atkins: The Department has put in place a considerable programme of improvements across a wide range of transport policy areas since 1997. I am confident that the Maidenhead constituency will have benefited from these. For example, the injury totals for all road causalities in Great Britain fell from 327,803 in 1997 to 290,607 in 2003, and the numbers of children aged under 16 years killed or seriously injured on our roads fell from 6,452 in 1997 to 4,100 in 2003. On our railways, passenger kilometres have increased from 32.1 billion in 1996-97 to 40.9 billion in 2003-04, a rise of 27 per cent. In terms of improvements to air quality, emissions of the UK's two main pollutants--nitrous oxides and particles--fell by 31 per cent. and 27 per cent. respectively between 1997 and 2002. The funding provided directly to the Royal borough of Windsor and Maidenhead since 1997 is shown in the table1. It has been for the borough council to determine how that allocation has been spent, in line with its local transport plan and its priorities. 1 Funding allocations for 1997-98 not included since they cover a period proceeding May 1997 and announcements concerning the 1997-98 allocations were made in 1996. £ million _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Royal borough of Windsor 1998-99 1999-2000 2000-01 2001-02 2002-03 2003-04 2004-05 and Maidenhead Capital maintenance 0.29 0.74 0.75 1.025 1.096 1.37 1.50 Integrated block 0.10 0.65 0.83 1.700 1.690 1.70 1.84 Major schemes Nil Nil Nil Nil Nil Nil Nil Targeted bus grants1 0.051 0.051 0.051 0.490 0.074 0.075 0.095 Total 0.441 1.441 1.631 3.215 2.860 3.145 3.435 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. 1 Includes rural bus subsidy grant and rural bus challenge funding. In addition, since 1997 the Maidenhead constituency, which lies within the Thames area franchise, has benefited from investment in new rail rolling stock.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

431 c202-4W;431 c201-4W; 216025

Session

2004-05

Subjects

Department for Transport Government departments Policy Maidenhead

Contains statistics

Yes

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