§ Mrs. BrookeTo ask the Secretary of State for Transport how much the Treasury expects to receive from each English police authority from safety camera fines in the next financial year. [142533]
§ Mr. Jamieson[holding answer 8 December 2003]: The safety camera partnerships are in the process of compiling their operational cases for inclusion in the 921W 2004–05 programme. The deadline for submitting their operational cases is 31 December 2003. The national safety camera programme board will consider the cases early in 2004. The information requested is therefore not yet available.
§ Mrs. BrookeTo ask the Secretary of State for Transport how much the Treasury has received from each English police authority from fines from speed safety cameras in the last 12 months. [142534]
§ Mr. Jamieson[holding answer 8 December 2003]: Six partnerships trialed the netting off scheme in England between April 2000 and March 2002. A further six areas joined the scheme in October 2001. The surplus amounts passed from these 12 areas to the Treasury are given in the following table.
Treasury Surplus 2000–01 Cleveland 127,059 Essex 13,000 Lincolnshire 114,279 Nottingham 166,011 Northants 465,436 Thames Valley 413,481 2001–02 Cleveland 368,589 Essex 520,357 Lincolnshire 542,862 Nottingham 34,104 Northants 719,802 Thames Valley 2,055,849 Cambridgeshire 21,660 Derbyshire 198,341 Lancashire 436,163 Norfolk 1272,960 Staffordshire 2,014 Warwickshire 1150,768 1 Shortfall recovered during following year.
§ Mr. Damian GreenTo ask the Secretary of State for Transport how many fixed speed cameras there are on the(a) A537 between Macclesfield and Buxton, (b) A534 between Farndon and Nantwich, (c) the A682 between Barrowford and Long Preston, (d) the A54 between Congleton and Buxton and (e) A631 between Gainsborough and Glentham. [142918]
§ Mr. JamiesonThe information is as follows:
- (a) None
- (b) One
- (c) None
- (d) One
- (e) None
These roads are some of those listed in the Euro RAP 2003 British Roads Results Survey as being "Britain's persistently high risk roads". They are single carriageway roads; some are remote Peak District areas. Where accidents and casualties are spread along lengths of rural roads, fixed location cameras will be of less value than mobile cameras or other traffic engineering and enforcement measures appropriate to the problem.
§ Mr. Damian GreenTo ask the Secretary of State for Transport how many fixed speed cameras there are on the(a) A134 between Thetford and the A10, (b) M73 between junctions 1 and 3, (c) A682 between the A56 922W and the A646 Burnley, (d) A45 between Ryton on Dunsmore and Stonebridge and (e) A6 between Leicester and Derby. [142919]
§ Mr. JamiesonThis information is as follows:
- (a) None
- (b) None
- (c) One
- (d) Five
- (e) Two
These roads are some of those listed in the Euro RAP 2003 British Roads Results Survey as being "Britain's most improved roads". They are a mixture of urban and rural roads, single and dual carriageway and one short motorway. Cameras will have been an appropriate casualty reduction technique in some of the cases, combined with other traffic engineering and enforcement measures appropriate to the problem.
§ Mr. DrewTo ask the Secretary of State for Transport (1) what revenue has been received from all safety camera partnerships in each year since the first partnership was set up, net of the funds awarded to those partnerships in each of those years; [142207]
what funds were awarded to each local Safety Camera Partnership in each year since they were set up. [142264]
§ Mr. JamiesonSeven partnerships trialed the netting off scheme in England and Wales between April 2000 and March 2002. A further seven areas joined the scheme in October 2001. The amounts passed to these 14 areas and the surplus passed to the Treasury are given in the tables.
2000–01 Costs passed to partnerships (£) Surplus passed to Treasury Cleveland 771,901 127,059 Essex 1,846,480 13,000 Lincolnshire 512,721 114,279 Nottingham 622,371 166,011 Northants 1,702,404 465,436 South Wales 1,330,277 236,723 Thames Valley 1,825,639 413,481 Total 8,611,793 1,287,967 1 Shortfall recovered during following year. 923W
2001–02 Costs passed to partnerships (£) Surplus passed to Treasury Cleveland 486,891 368,589 Essex 3,003,763 520,357 Lincolnshire 516,818 542,862 Nottingham 778,536 34,104 Northants 2,247,838 719,802 South Wales 1,749,573 126,667 Thames Valley 2,617,031 2,055,849 Cambridgeshire 113,760 21,660 Derbyshire 455,659 198,341 Lancashire 761,017 436,163 Norfolk 433,100 1272,960 North Wales 904,022 1255,242 Staffordshire 629,246 2,014 Warwickshire 355,068 1150,768 Total 15,052,322 4,347,438 1 Shortfall recovered during following year.
§ Mr. DrewTo ask the Secretary of State for Transport how many fixed speed cameras are operating outside Safety Camera Partnerships; and where they are located. [142237]
§ Mr. JamiesonThere are currently five police force areas out of a maximum 51 in Great Britain who are not yet participating in the safety camera netting off scheme. These areas do not recover their camera-related costs from fine income and therefore there is no obligation on them to inform central Government about camera activity or number of cameras in operation in their areas. We expect all but Durham to be part of the netting off programme by July 2004.
§ Mr. DrewTo ask the Secretary of State for Transport how many people were(a) killed, (b) seriously injured and (c) slightly injured in the location of each fixed speed camera within a Safety Camera Partnership in (i) the year prior to its installation and (ii) each subsequent year. 42265]
Partnership performance for 2003 will be detailed in the next report on the netting off programme which is expected to be published in March 2004.
Change in average speed Change in 85thpercentile speed Mph Percentage Mph Percentage Percentage change in vehicles exceeding the speed limit Percentage change in vehicles exceeding the spend limit by more than 15 mph Lincolnshire -2.7 -6.5 -9.6 -18 -73 -94 Nottingham -8.0 -17.4 -4.0 -18 - - Northamptonshire -7.5 -22.2 -7.6 -18 -81 -98 Essex -5.7 -16.3 -7.0 -17 -78 -92 Thames Valley n/a n/a -5.7 -16 -65 -98 South Wales -7.9 -22.7 -7.1 -20 -56 -97 Strathclyde -3.3 -10.1 -2.3 -6 -61 -61 Average -4.5 -12.2 -6.8 -17 -67 -96
§ Mr. ChopeTo ask the Secretary of State for Transport if he will list for each safety camera partnership the number of those(a) killed and (b) seriously injured in the partnership area (i) in the year to July 2003 and (ii) in the year to July 2002. [142498]
§ Mr. Jamieson[holding answer 8 December 2003]: The data is not available in the periods requested. The data shown in the table is for the numbers of killed and seriously injured road accident casualties (KSIs) for the latest available calendar year in the eight safety camera partnership areas that were fully operational. For comparison the KSI averages are provided for the three years prior to the start of the netting off trial in March 2000.
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1997–99 average 2002 Safety camera partnership area Killed Serious Killed Serious Cleveland 20 239 19 234 Essex 90 1,164 92 1,210 Lincolnshire 88 680 91 645 Northamptonshire 64 680 62 478 Nottinghamshire1 78 978 80 833 South Wales 60 344 41 408 Strathclyde 114 1,780 92 1,316 Thames Valley 151 1,143 157 1,379 Total 665 7,008 634 6,503 1 Nottinghamshire country joined late in 2002, data includes City of Nottingham.
§ Mr. JamiesonThe Government published information on 11 February 2003 about the performance of the eight areas that trialed the netting off scheme in the report "A cost recovery system for speed and red-light cameras—two year evaluation report." This showed that there had been a 35 per cent. reduction in those killed or seriously injured at camera sites. Partnership performance for 2003 will be detailed in the next report on the netting off programme to be published in March 2004.
§ Mr. DrewTo ask the Secretary of State for Transport what the average speed of vehicles was at each fixed speed camera within each Safety Camera Partnership in the year(a) prior to installation and (b) subsequent to installation. [142267]
§ Mr. JamiesonThe Government published information on 11 February 2003 about the performance of the eight areas that trialed the netting off scheme in the report "A cost recovery system for speed and red-light cameras—two year evaluation report." This showed speeds were affected in the seven areas where fixed site cameras were used in the following way:
§ Mr. ChopeTo ask the Secretary of State for Transport what the policy of the Government is in relation to the reinvestment by safety camera partnerships of revenue from fines in(a) road safety education and (b) highway engineering improvements to improve road safety. [142499]
§ Mr. Jamieson[holding answer 8 December 2003]: The rules for netting off allow fine revenue to be used only to fund safety camera activity which includes education about how effective speed management can improve road safety. Other aspects of road safety education and highway engineering improvement are funded separately in the usual way. The rules for netting off were designed to ensure there would be no benefit to the partnership for installing cameras at places where there were no casualty savings.
§ Mr. Damian GreenTo ask the Secretary of State for Transport if he will(a) publish and (b) place in the Library the business plans of each camera safety partnership; and if he will make a statement. [142917]
§ Mr. JamiesonEach safety camera partnership makes available locally for public scrutiny information about its operational case having taken regard to sensitive operational matters such as the speeds at which cameras are triggered to enforce the limit. Operational cases for 2004–05 are to be produced in common format to allow publication without compromising operational sensitivities.
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