Annual Report 2007 This document is part of a series of Departmental Reports (Cm 7091 to Cm 7117) which, along with the Main Estimates 2007-08, the document Public Expenditure Statistical Analyses 2007 and the Supplementary Budgetary Information 2007-08, present the Government’s expenditure plans for 2007-08, and comparative outturn data for prior years. Department for Transport Annual Report 2007 Presented to Parliament by the Secretary of State for Transport, by Command of Her Majesty May 2007 Cm 7095 £40.00 © Crown Copyright 2007 The text in this document (excluding the Royal Arms and departmental logos) may be reproduced free of charge in any format or medium providing that it is reproduced accurately and not used in a misleading context. The material must be acknowledged as Crown copyright and the title of the document specified. 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Fax: 01603 723000 or e-mail: [email protected] Contents Introduction and structure 5 Index to information about PSA targets and other objectives for the period 2006-07 8 Chapter 1 The year in brief: our key achievements 2006-07 10 Chapter 2 Responsibilities and organisation of the Department 22 Chapter 3 Efficiency and effectiveness 42 Chapter 4 Roads 60 Chapter 5 Rail 82 Chapter 6 Buses and taxis 96 Chapter 7 Making choices locally and regionally 108 Chapter 8 Aviation, shipping and ports 128 Chapter 9 Freight 146 Chapter 10 Protecting the environment 156 Chapter 11 Safety and security 170 Chapter 12 Electronic services for customers 194 Appendices Appendix A Public expenditure core tables 204 Appendix B Recruitment and public appointment tables 224 Appendix C Sponsorship 228 Appendix D Public Service Agreement targets 232 Appendix E Expenditure on consultancy and staff substitutes 270 Appendix F Public Accounts Committee recommendations 272 Appendix G Departmental report on better regulation 294 Appendix H European Union 298 Appendix I Ministers, Board and committees 300 Bibliography 303 Index 310 Introduction and structure | 5 Introduction and structure This report tells Parliament how the Department for Transport has spent its money and what it plans to do in the future. It describes our policies and programmes and outlines what we propose to fund in 2007-08. The figures contained in the report are not audited and are subject to change. Chapter 1: The year in brief: our key achievements 2006-07 This chapter lists the Department’s key activities and achievements over the past 12 months. Chapter 2: Responsibilities and organisation of the Department This chapter describes the structure and functions of the Department and the role of the executive agencies and non-departmental public bodies. Chapters 3 to 12 These chapters set out the Department’s programmes for each of the main spending areas following the structure of the white paper The Future of Transport: a network for 2030, with an outline of current activities and future plans. Appendices Appendix A: Public expenditure core tables There is a direct read across between these tables and the main estimates 2006-07 published by HM Treasury. Appendix B: Recruitment and public appointment tables Public appointments and recruitment information Number of senior civil servants by pay band Strategic annual public appointments Appendix C: Sponsorship Appendix D: Public Service Agreement targets Appendix E: Expenditure on consultancy and staff substitutes Appendix F: Public Accounts Committee recommendations Appendix G: Departmental reporting on better regulation Appendix H: European Union Appendix I: Ministers, Board and committees 6 | Department for Transport | Annual Report 2007 Other key policy documents The documents listed in this section set out the Department’s commitment to delivering results and achieving best value for money. They are a complement to this report. The Spending Review 2004 The Government’s Spending Review New Public Spending Plans 2005-2008 (Cm 6237) was published in July 2004. It takes forward the Government’s objective of a strong economy and a fair society with stability, security and opportunity for all. It set out spending plans for the next three years and the further improvements in public services that were planned. The Public Service Agreement As part of the comprehensive spending review in 1998, each department entered into a Public Service Agreement (PSA). This identified its aims and objectives and the targets it was committed to achieve with the resources available to it during the three financial years from April 1999. Revised PSAs were agreed in subsequent spending reviews in 2000, 2002 and 2004. A new PSA for the period 2005-08 arising from the Spending Review 2004 came into effect from April 2005. This report describes the Department’s performance against the targets in both PSAs. See appendix D for more details. The Future of Transport: a network for 2030 The white paper The Future of Transport: a network for 2030 (Cm 6234) looks at the factors that will shape travel and our transport networks over the next 30 years. It sets out how the Government will respond to those pressures, safeguarding our economic and social well-being and our environment. The white paper builds on progress that has already been made since the implementation of the white paper Transport 2010: The 10 Year plan. The Future of Rail The white paper The Future of Rail (Cm 6233), published in July 2004, sets out a blueprint for a new streamlined structure for Britain’s railways. This will provide a single point of accountability for the network’s performance to allow closer working between track and train, and provide greater devolved decision making. Together the changes will ensure that the structure of the railways is fit to deliver the improvements that the public expect. Introduction and structure | 7 The Future of Air Transport The white paper The Future of Air Transport (Cm 6046), published in December 2003, sets out a strategic framework for the development of airport capacity in the United Kingdom over the next 30 years, against the wider context of the air transport sector. In December 2006, we published a report on the progress that has been made over the past three years on implementing the policies and proposals in our 2003 white paper. The progress report makes clear that we continue to support the sustainable development of the aviation sector across the UK, predominantly through making the best use of existing capacity and ensuring that, where new capacity is required, its provision is in line with our environmental obligations. Putting Passengers First The consultation document Putting Passengers First: the Government’s proposals for a modernised national framework for bus services, published on 12 December 2006, sets out the Government’s proposals to re-equip the bus sector for the challenges of the 21st century and is the result of an extensive review of the bus sector undertaken by the Department over the course of the summer and autumn. The document outlines changes aimed to create a modernised framework for bus services and contains a number of measures to improve the quality of service offered to bus passengers. 8 | Department for Transport | Annual Report 2007 Index to information about PSA targets and other objectives for the period 2006-07 PSA targets Chapter By 2007-08, make journeys more reliable on the Chapter 4 – Roads strategic road network. By 2010-11, the 10 largest urban areas will meet Chapter 4 – Roads the congestion targets set in their local transport plan relating to movement on main roads into city centres. Improve punctuality and reliability of rail services Chapter 5 – Rail to at least 85 per cent by 2006, with further improvements by 2008. By 2010 increase the use of public transport Chapter 6 – Buses (bus and light rail) by more than 12 per cent in Chapter 7 – Making choices locally and regionally England compared with 2000 levels, with growth in every region. Reduce the number of people killed or seriously Chapter 11 – Safety and security injured in Great Britain in road accidents by 40 per cent, and the number of children killed or seriously injured by 50 per cent by 2010 compared with the average for 1994-98, tackling significantly higher incidence in disadvantaged communities. Improve air quality by meeting the Air Quality Chapter 10 – Protecting the environment Strategy targets for carbon monoxide, lead, nitrogen dioxide particles, sulphur dioxide, benzene and 1,3 butadiene (joint target with Defra). Reduce greenhouse gas emissions to 12.5 per Chapter 10 – Protecting the environment cent below 1990 levels in line with our Kyoto commitment and move towards a 20 per cent reduction in carbon dioxide emissions below 1990 levels by 2010, through measures including energy efficiency and renewals (joint target with Defra and DTI). Financial information split by PSA objective Appendix A Progress and performance reports by PSA target Appendix D Chapter 1 The year in brief: our key achievements 2006-07 10 | Department for Transport | Annual Report 2007 Chapter 1 The year in brief: our key achievements 2006-07 1.1 This chapter covers major events in transport and the Department’s key activities and achievements for the year ending March 2007, arranged under headings that reflect our four strategic objectives. The chapter concludes with a brief look forward to 2007-08. Economic growth and productivity The Eddington study 1.2 In December 2006, Sir Rod Eddington published the conclusions of his study into the effects of transport on economic growth, competition and productivity. The study, commissioned by HM Treasury and the Department in 2005, is a rigorous and independent review of the effect of transport policy on economic growth in the UK.