Dartford Tunnel: Tolls

Mr. Holloway

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport how many DART-Tag holders live in (a) DA11, (b) DA12, (c) DA13 and (d) ME3 postcode areas. (187078)

We do not hold data in the form requested. DART-Tags are registered against accounts and may be switched between users. The address held relates only to the account holder. In some cases there is more than one tag registered on an account.

The following figures show the number of accounts registered against addresses in these postcode areas. The account holder may not necessarily live at the address; in some cases the address will be that of a business.

	Number of accounts
(a) DA11	550
(b) DA12	622
(c) DA13	288
(d) ME3	401

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport how much pre-payment income was received from DART tag holders at the Dartford River crossing in each of the last 12 months; and how many crossings were made by such customers in the last 12 months. (187079)

Figures are shown in the following table for the last 12 months.

Month	Payments made by DART-Tag	Number of journeys paid by DART-Tag
February 2007	1,524,951	953,081
March 2007	1,743,635	1,086,697
April 2007	1,573,164	973,733
May 2007	1,712,556	1,061,490
June 2007	1,679,862	1,040,529
July 2007	1,707,228	1,057,714
August 2007	1,644,092	1,010,793
September 2007	1,613,375	996,365
October 2007	1,760,293	1,088,126
November 2007	l.718,358	1,063,974
December 2007	1,374,864	854,054
January 2008	1,688,562	1,049,550
Total	19,740,946	12,236,106

Volume 472: debated on Thursday 6 March 2008