§ Chris GraylingTo ask the Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions if he will make a statement on the sustainable distribution strategy set out in section 12 on page 45 on the 10-year plan background analysis. [41660]
§ Mr. JamiesonThe assumptions about developments in the distribution industries listed on page 45 of "Transport 2010: The Background Analysis" were informed by polling experts in the haulage/logistics industries, academics and vehicle manufacturers.
§ Chris GraylingTo ask the Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions if he will make a statement on the policy changes that will be required to deliver land use planning directed at increasing the attractiveness of public transport, walking and cycling as described in section 12 on page 44 of the 10-year plan background analysis. [41659]
§ Mr. SpellarIn developing the 10-year plan, the Department assumed that land use planning would contribute to lower traffic growth (and thus greater use of other modes) by promoting accessibility to development by public transport, walking and cycling. The Government issued Planning Policy Guidance note 13 (PPG13) on Transport in March 2001, setting out national land use planning policy on transport, to support the integrated transport strategy and 10-year plan. Other PPGs support the same objective of promoting sustainable transport choices.
§ Chris GraylingTo ask the Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions whether the amount transferred from the unallocated budget in the 10-year plan to the rail budget has been moved from the years in which it was originally allocated. [41666]
§ Mr. JamiesonThe revised amounts and profile of the unallocated budget and the rail budget are shown in the revised version of Table A3 from the 10-year plan, copies of which were placed in the House Library on 25 February.
§ Chris GraylingTo ask the Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions if he will provide a schedule of budget allocations to the 10-year plan at constant 2001 prices. [41665]
§ Mr. JamiesonThe information requested for transport spending plans expressed in 2001–02 prices is shown in the table.
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Transport spending review 2000 plans: 2000–02 to 2003–04 £ million, 2001–02 prices 2000–01 plans 2001–02 2002–03 2003–04 Three year totals Total 5,018 6,056 7,324 8,879 22,260 of which: Capital 2,391 3,258 4,410 5,883 13,551 Resource 2,627 2,798 2,914 2,996 8,709 of which: Strategic roads 1,548 1,632 1,759 1,832 5,222 Local 1,203 1,788 2,035 2,207 6,030 Railways 1,508 1,607 2,266 3,398 7,271 London 578 826 1,045 1,222 3,093 Other transport 181 204 220 220 645 Notes:
1. The table is based on Table Al (p98) in 'Transport 2010: The 10 Year Plan' which is expressed in outturn or cash prices.
2. Both tables exclude £2.7 billion of transport-related Revenue Support Grant funding for local authorities, but include £37/139/209 million (cash) of other public funding for transport compared with the Transport spending totals shown in Treasury's Spending Review 2000 White Paper.
§ Chris GraylingTo ask the Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions what estimate the 10-year plan model made of the impact of changes in average non-regulated rail fares on demand for(a) rail and (b) road traffic. [41656]
§ Mr. JamiesonThe 10-year plan rail demand modelling work assumed that non-regulated fares would increase in line with inflation. As there is no real change in non-regulated fares they had no impact upon changes in either rail or road traffic demand in the model.
§ Mr. RedwoodTo ask the Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions what the starting date was for the 10 years of the Transport Plan. [41302]
§ Mr. SpellarThe start date for spending under the 10-year plan was the beginning of the current financial year on 1 April 2001.