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46936

registered interest
date	03/04/2014
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what proportion of contraband cigarettes entering the UK were originally manufactured in the UK.
tabling member constituency	Newport West
tabling member printed	Paul Flynn
uin	195150
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/04/2014 answer text <p>The information requested is not available. HM Revenue &amp; Customs records data on seizures of illicit products but this does not include the country of manufacture.</p> answering member constituency South West Hertfordshire answering member printed Mr David Gauke question first answered 08/04/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1529 label Biography information for Mr David Gauke
tabling member	545 label Biography information for Paul Flynn

46954

registered interest
date	03/04/2014
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what change there has been in the level of accidents attributable to congestion in each of the last 10 years.
tabling member constituency	Newport West
tabling member printed	Paul Flynn
uin	195246
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/04/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>The information requested is not collected by the Department.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Scarborough and Whitby answering member printed Mr Robert Goodwill question first answered 09/04/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1562 label Biography information for Sir Robert Goodwill
tabling member	545 label Biography information for Paul Flynn

46957

registered interest
date	03/04/2014
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment he has made of trends in the levels of (a) congestion and (b) traffic accidents in London in each of the last 10 years.
tabling member constituency	Newport West
tabling member printed	Paul Flynn
uin	195180
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/04/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>Road congestion is measured in the Department by average morning peak speeds. Estimates of average weekday morning peak speeds, on locally managed ‘A' roads in London between 2007 and 2013 are presented in the table below. The first calendar year in this series is 2007 and earlier years are not available. Over the last 6 years, average morning peak speeds in London rose by 3.8% between 2007 and 2009, remained relatively stable until 2011, before falling by 2.7% between 2011 and 2013.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p><strong>Average weekday morning peak speeds on locally managed ‘A' roads in London</strong></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><strong>Year</strong></td><td><strong>Average morning peak speeds in London *1,*2</strong></td></tr><tr><td>2007</td><td>15.9</td></tr><tr><td>2008</td><td>16.1</td></tr><tr><td>2009</td><td>16.5</td></tr><tr><td>2010</td><td>16.4</td></tr><tr><td>2011</td><td>16.5</td></tr><tr><td>2012</td><td>16.3</td></tr><tr><td>2013</td><td>16.1</td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>*1 Morning peak defined as 7am to 10am. School holiday periods and the month of August are excluded</p><p>*2 Average speeds are measured in both directions of the road network</p><p>Equivalent estimates for individual London boroughs can be found on the Department for Transport's website at:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/279125/cgn0206.xls" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/279125/cgn0206.xls</a></p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The number of reported personal injury road accidents of all severities in London in the last 10 years can be found in the table below.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p><strong>Reported personal injury road accidents in London, 2003-2012</strong></p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><strong>Year</strong></td><td><strong>Accidents</strong></td></tr><tr><td>2003</td><td>31,844</td></tr><tr><td>2004</td><td>28,778</td></tr><tr><td>2005</td><td>26,812</td></tr><tr><td>2006</td><td>24,829</td></tr><tr><td>2007</td><td>23,265</td></tr><tr><td>2008</td><td>23,160</td></tr><tr><td>2009</td><td>23,279</td></tr><tr><td>2010</td><td>24,145</td></tr><tr><td>2011</td><td>24,468</td></tr><tr><td>2012</td><td>24,097</td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Data for year 2013 will be available in June 2014.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Scarborough and Whitby answering member printed Mr Robert Goodwill question first answered 09/04/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1562 label Biography information for Sir Robert Goodwill
tabling member	545 label Biography information for Paul Flynn

46958

registered interest
date	03/04/2014
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment his Department has made of whether there is a correlation between the price of (a) petrol and (b) diesel and the levels of traffic accidents and car journeys in the UK.
tabling member constituency	Newport West
tabling member printed	Paul Flynn
uin	195182
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/04/2014 answer text <p> </p><p> </p><p>The Department's modelling and appraisal guidance contains values to be used by transport modellers for realism testing for models (WebTAG unit M2 <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/275597/webtag-tag-unit-m2-variable-demand-modelling.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/275597/webtag-tag-unit-m2-variable-demand-modelling.pdf</a>, see paragraph 6.4.14). The guidance on fuel cost elasticity is set at a decrease of 0.3% in traffic for a 1% increase in fuel cost. This value is based on a number of independent studies of transport demand. This is the value used in the National Transport Model and published in Road Transport Forecasts 2013 (see <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/road-transport-forecasts-2013" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/road-transport-forecasts-2013</a></p><p> </p><p>paragraphs 1.34 and 1.35 on page 14). This refers to fuel cost generally, the Department does not have estimates for petrol and diesel separately.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Department does not have quantified estimates of the relationship between fuel cost and accidents.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Scarborough and Whitby answering member printed Mr Robert Goodwill question first answered 09/04/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1562 label Biography information for Sir Robert Goodwill
tabling member	545 label Biography information for Paul Flynn

46959

registered interest
date	03/04/2014
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many (a) fatal and (b) serious injuries were suffered by cyclists in London in each of the last 10 years.
tabling member constituency	Newport West
tabling member printed	Paul Flynn
uin	195151
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/04/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>The number of reported a) killed and b) seriously injured cyclists in London in each of the last 10 years is given in the table below.</p><p>Number of killed and seriously injured cyclists in London: 2003-2012</p><table><tbody><tr><td><strong> </strong></td><td colspan="2"><strong>number of casualties </strong><strong> </strong></td></tr><tr><td><strong>Year</strong></td><td><strong>a) Killed </strong></td><td><strong>b)Serious </strong></td></tr><tr><td>2003</td><td>19</td><td>419</td></tr><tr><td>2004</td><td>8</td><td>332</td></tr><tr><td>2005</td><td>21</td><td>351</td></tr><tr><td>2006</td><td>19</td><td>373</td></tr><tr><td>2007</td><td>15</td><td>446</td></tr><tr><td>2008</td><td>15</td><td>430</td></tr><tr><td>2009</td><td>13</td><td>420</td></tr><tr><td>2010</td><td>10</td><td>458</td></tr><tr><td>2011</td><td>16</td><td>555</td></tr><tr><td>2012</td><td>14</td><td>659</td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>Data for the year 2013 will be available in June 2014.</p> answering member constituency Scarborough and Whitby answering member printed Mr Robert Goodwill question first answered 09/04/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1562 label Biography information for Sir Robert Goodwill
tabling member	545 label Biography information for Paul Flynn

46258

registered interest
date	01/04/2014
answering body	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept id	13
answering dept short name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept sort name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what discussions he has had with the Royal College of Pathologists on the effects on human and animal safety of reductions in the number of national pathology laboratories from 14 to 7; and if he will publish the impact assessment produced by his Department on such a plan.
tabling member constituency	Newport West
tabling member printed	Paul Flynn
uin	194600
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/04/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>Animal Health Veterinary Laboratories Agency (AHVLA) and Defra have met with the Royal College of Pathologists, to discuss the new Surveillance model, on four separate occasions between September 2012 and the introduction of changes to the Surveillance model on 1 April 2014.</p><p> </p><p>A formal impact assessment was not required for this work because it does not involve a change in regulation. Submission into the scanning surveillance system is a voluntary activity that has no regulatory aspect. However the ‘Changes to the delivery of Veterinary Scanning Surveillance in England and Wales, December 2013' document published on the AHVLA website does consider the impact of the changes, recognises that there are negative impacts (e.g. some farms will be further from an AHVLA Post Mortem facility) but concludes that these are outweighed by the benefit of having stronger national centres of excellence and a better coordinated network of support from private practices.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice question first answered 08/04/2014 12:00:00 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
tabling member	545 label Biography information for Paul Flynn

45519

registered interest
date	27/03/2014
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what discussions his Department has had with the United States Department of Defense (USDoD) in respect of the installation by BT of a special communications system to link RAF Croughton in Northamptonshire with the USDoD headquarters in Washington DC and the US Africa headquarters for unmanned aircraft operations in Djibouti.
tabling member constituency	Newport West
tabling member printed	Paul Flynn
uin	194144
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/04/2014 answer text <p>The installation of US communications systems at RAF Croughton is a matter for the United States Visiting Forces. No discussions have taken place in respect to the installation by BT of a special communications system to link RAF Croughton with the Department of Defence headquarters in the US, and US Forces in Djibouti.</p> answering member constituency Rayleigh and Wickford answering member printed Mr Mark Francois question first answered 08/04/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1444 label Biography information for Mr Mark Francois previous answer version 4537 answering member constituency Rayleigh and Wickford answering member printed Mr Mark Francois answering member 1444 label Biography information for Mr Mark Francois
tabling member	545 label Biography information for Paul Flynn

45016

registered interest
date	25/03/2014
answering body	Department for Energy and Climate Change
answering dept id	63
answering dept short name	Energy and Climate Change
answering dept sort name	Energy and Climate Change
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what steps the Government plans to take to deliver the commitments on nuclear security contained in paragraph 27 of the Hague Nuclear Security Summit Communiqué held in the Hague on 24 and 25 March 2014.
tabling member constituency	Newport West
tabling member printed	Paul Flynn
uin	193687
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/04/2014 answer text <p>Safety and security are top priorities for the Government and there is a robust security framework in place for the civil nuclear industry. We seek continuous improvement in line with internationally established principles. The UK has a strong and effective independent regulator, the Office for Nuclear Regulation (ONR), which ensures compliance with the requirements placed on duty holders by the Nuclear Industries Security Regulations 2003 (as amended) and the performance-based National Objectives, Requirements and Model Standards (NORMS). There is extensive engagement between the Government, ONR and duty holders. The full set of UK commitments made at the Nuclear Security Summit which go towards meeting paragraph 27 of the Summit's Communiquécan be found at the following link:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.nss2014.com/sites/default/files/documents/140321_uk_national_statement_on_commitments.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.nss2014.com/sites/default/files/documents/140321_uk_national_statement_on_commitments.pdf</a></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Sevenoaks answering member printed Michael Fallon question first answered 01/04/2014 12:00:00 answering member 88 label Biography information for Sir Michael Fallon
tabling member	545 label Biography information for Paul Flynn

45017

registered interest
date	25/03/2014
answering body	Department for Energy and Climate Change
answering dept id	63
answering dept short name	Energy and Climate Change
answering dept sort name	Energy and Climate Change
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what steps the Government plans to take to deliver the commitments on nuclear security contained in paragraph 21 of the Hague Nuclear Security Summit Communiqué of the Nuclear Security Summit held in the Hague on 24 and 25 March 2014 to keep the national stockpile of separated plutonium to the minimum level.
tabling member constituency	Newport West
tabling member printed	Paul Flynn
uin	193688
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/04/2014 answer text <p>The Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) has published strategies for the management of spent Magnox and Oxide fuel; it is from these spent fuels that plutonium is separated. These strategies are aligned with UK Government policy and their implementation is expected to see cessation of reprocessing in Magnox and THORP facilities during this decade.</p><p> </p><p>With respect to Magnox fuel, the intent is to reprocess all of it. Only a finite amount of Magnox fuel remains, which limits the amount of further separated plutonium that could be produced from reprocessing. Reprocessing is the only approved process for managing this metal fuel.</p><p> </p><p>With respect to Oxide Fuel management, an NDA paper sets out the strategy which is to complete the reprocessing contracts in THORP, as far as is reasonably practicable, and place the remaining fuel and any future arisings into interim storage pending disposal. The paper can be found at <a title="http://www.nda.gov.uk/documents/upload/Oxide-Fuels-Preferred-Options-June-2012.pdf" href="http://www.nda.gov.uk/documents/upload/Oxide-Fuels-Preferred-Options-June-2012.pdf" target="_blank">http://www.nda.gov.uk/documents/upload/Oxide-Fuels-Preferred-Options-June-2012.pdf</a></p><p> </p><p>Both these strategies see the amount of plutonium separated in the future being limited in line with national requirements.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Sevenoaks answering member printed Michael Fallon question first answered 01/04/2014 12:00:00 answering member 88 label Biography information for Sir Michael Fallon
tabling member	545 label Biography information for Paul Flynn

43330

registered interest
date	17/03/2014
answering body	Attorney General
answering dept id	88
answering dept short name	Attorney General
answering dept sort name	Attorney General
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Attorney General, what the total cost to his Department has been of challenging the decision of the Information Commissioner on the publication of letters from HRH the Prince of Wales.
tabling member constituency	Newport West
tabling member printed	Paul Flynn
uin	192074
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/03/2014 answer text <p> </p><p> </p><p>This case raises issues of constitutional significance, including upholding Parliament's intentions for the Freedom of Information regime and the Government's ability to protect information in the public interest. Litigation initiated by <em>The Guardian</em> newspaper has taken place over a four year period including hearings in the Upper Tribunal, the High Court, and the Court of Appeal. Eight government departments have had to work together on the Government's response, at a total cost of £274,481.16 (exc VAT). These costs encompass all costs billed by the Treasury Solicitor, including Counsels' fees and disbursements. If we are successful in the next stage of legal proceedings the Government would seek to recover a substantial proportion of these costs from the Guardian.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Beaconsfield answering member printed Mr Dominic Grieve question first answered 26/03/2014 12:00:00 answering member 16 label Biography information for Mr Dominic Grieve
tabling member	545 label Biography information for Paul Flynn