§ Mr. LoveTo ask the Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions what estimate he has made of the(a) numbers and (b) percentage of residents who were not registered on the electoral register in (i) the UK, (ii) Greater London and (iii) Enfield in each of the last five years. [58972]
§ Yvette CooperI have been asked to reply.
Data on which to make such an estimate are not available.
§ Mr. LoveTo ask the Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions how much public expenditure was incurred in organising the 2001 general election in(a) the UK, (b) Greater London and (c) Enfield; and if he will make a statement. [58967]
§ Yvette CooperI have been asked to reply.
The funds made available to acting returning officers to conduct the 2001 general election were as follows:
These figures represent advances made; when final accounts are submitted and paid they are expected to rise. In addition in England and Wales, around £18 million was paid for the delivery of candidates' election material and for electoral equipment. No further breakdown of this figure is available in the form requested. The responsibility for funding parliamentary elections in1142W
- (a) England and Wales—£27 million;
- (b) Greater London—£5 million; and
- (c) Enfield—£153,000.
§ Mr. JamiesonThe Government have introduced a range of measures to encourage environmentally friendly buses. These include: lower fuel duties for cleaner fuels; reduced vehicle excise duty for buses that meet tighter emissions standards; and grants from TransportAction for buses that run on cleaner fuels or are fitted with pollution reducing technology. In addition the Green Fuels Challenge programme is supporting, through duty exemptions, hydrogen fuel cell buses.