Legislation

HC Deb 08 December 2003 vol 415 cc199-200W

Mr. Redwood

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport how many pages of(a) primary and (b) secondary legislation his Department put through Parliament in 2002–03. [141173]

Dr. Howells

My Department sponsored one Bill in the 2002–03 session which comprised 92 pages once enacted.

£
	1998–99	1999–2000	2000–01	2001–02	2002–03
Scotland	8,034,124.92	8,929,663.47	9,110,457.12	8,536,210.39	7,270,783.41
Isle of Man	44,424.38	20,635.93	19,012.13	19,400.57	26,074.60
England and Wales	54,942,311.20	55,756,005.50	57,923,611.28	62,489,782.79	60,343,913.47
Northern Ireland	617,011.16	662,503.18	599,414.51	662,195.49	637,721.11
R.O.I (Customs and Excise)	3,131,480.85	3,464,779.82	3,416,674.55	3,077,673.30	3,363,729.90
Total	66,769,352.51	68.833,587.90	71,069,169.59	74,785,262.54	71,642,222.49

The figures above are for General Light dues and does not include income from UK fishing vessels and tugs.

The figures do not include any light dues refunds that were made.

The figures for ROI are shown in sterling converted at an exchange rate based on the Bank of England average for each month. Pre-conversion figures shown as follows.

R.O.I. (Customs and Excise)
	Figures
1998–99	3,597,474.41
1999–2000	4,246,163.66
2000–01	4,396,335.39
2001–02	4,144,997.18
2002–03	5,268,090.44

John Thurso

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what financial contribution in(a) sterling. (b) euros and (c) punts has been made by the Irish Government under the terms of the 1985 agreement for the sharing of certain costs incurred by the Commissioners of Lights in the Republic of Ireland in each of the last five years. [141748]

Mr. Jamieson

The information requested is set out in the following table.

Irish Government contributions for years 1997–98 to 2001–02
Financial years	Sterling	Euros	Punts
1997–98	1,815,847	2,556,153	2,013,134
1998–99	1,448,449	2,317,770	1,825,392
1999–2000	1,146,745	1,811,703	1,426,832
2000–01	1,307,234	2,110,825	1,662,410
2001–021	2,063,889	3,214,780	2,531,845

In the case of secondary legislation my Department was responsible for the making of 127 General Statutory Instruments which would have subject to consideration by either the Joint Committee on Statutory Instruments or the Select Committee on Statutory Instruments. These instruments made a total of 1,264 pages.