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1682183

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date	15/01/2024
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Railways: Yorkshire and the Humber
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to the policy paper entitled Network North, published on 4 October 2023, what recent estimate he has made of the (a) cost of and (b) completion date for the restoration of the Don Valley Line between Sheffield and Stocksbridge.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Heeley
tabling member printed	Louise Haigh
uin	9565
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/01/2024 answer text <p>The Department is in the early stages of planning next steps, including delivery timescales for the Don Valley line project. A Strategic Outline Business Case (SOBC) for this project has already been completed by South Yorkshire Mayoral Combined Authority (SYMCA), with funding from the Restoring Your Railway Ideas Fund. Work with SYMCA has started to plan and develop the modal and route options for the next stage of work, which will inform the remit for production of an Outline Business Case. HS2 savings have been set aside to fund development and delivery of the scheme. More detail on cost and completion date will be included as part of the Outline Business Case.</p> answering member constituency Bexhill and Battle answering member printed Huw Merriman question first answered 22/01/2024 14:45:46 answering member 4442 label Biography information for Huw Merriman
tabling member	4473 label Biography information for Louise Haigh

1682184

registered interest
date	15/01/2024
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Railway Stations: Haxby
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to the policy paper entitled Network North, published on 4 October 2023, what recent estimate he has made of the (a) cost of and (b) completion date for the upgrade of Haxby Station.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Heeley
tabling member printed	Louise Haigh
uin	9566
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/01/2024 answer text <p>Design work is underway as part of Engineering Stage 4 and a planning application is forecast to be submitted in February. Engineering Stage 5 is due to begin in April 2024 with a Full Business Case expected to be submitted to the Department once that work is complete. The current anticipated cost of the project is estimated to be £23.1m. These estimates remain subject to change as the project develops. HS2 savings have been set aside to fund development and delivery of the scheme. More detail on cost and completion date will be included as part of the Full Business Case.</p> answering member constituency Bexhill and Battle answering member printed Huw Merriman question first answered 22/01/2024 14:43:57 answering member 4442 label Biography information for Huw Merriman
tabling member	4473 label Biography information for Louise Haigh

1682185

registered interest
date	15/01/2024
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Railway Stations: Sheffield
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to the policy paper entitled Network North, published on 4 October 2023, what recent estimate he has made of the (a) cost of and (b) completion date for the upgrade of Waverley Station.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Heeley
tabling member printed	Louise Haigh
uin	9567
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/01/2024 answer text <p>In the near-term, the Waverley project is being progressed by the South Yorkshire Mayoral Combined Authority (SYMCA), who will lead the project as far as Single Option Selection and the development of an Outline Business Case. The Department will then fund the project to delivery, subject to the updated business case. More detail on cost and completion date will be included as part of the Business Case.</p> answering member constituency Bexhill and Battle answering member printed Huw Merriman question first answered 22/01/2024 14:42:00 answering member 4442 label Biography information for Huw Merriman
tabling member	4473 label Biography information for Louise Haigh

1682186

registered interest
date	15/01/2024
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Railway Stations: Ferryhill
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if his Department will publish the Project Acceleration in a Controlled Environment status of planned upgrades to Ferryhill Station.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Heeley
tabling member printed	Louise Haigh
uin	9568
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/01/2024 answer text <p>All the projects within Network North will be progressed and developed in line with the principles of Project Acceleration in a Controlled Environment (PACE), which is the approach used by Network Rail to govern, manage and progress rail enhancements. Many of these projects are at the start of that process, reflecting their nature as new priorities, while other schemes had already made progress ahead of the announcement. The project was initially proposed by Durham County Council who led on the initial development work. Since being confirmed for progression, the Department has further developed the project's business case, looking at route capacity, station locations and has updated the forecast costs. The next PACE stage for the Ferryhill station project will be Engineering Stage 1.</p> answering member constituency Bexhill and Battle answering member printed Huw Merriman question first answered 22/01/2024 14:39:50 answering member 4442 label Biography information for Huw Merriman
tabling member	4473 label Biography information for Louise Haigh

1682189

registered interest
date	15/01/2024
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Railways: Midlands
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what estimate he has made of the (a) final cost and (b) completion date of the Midlands Rail hub.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Heeley
tabling member printed	Louise Haigh
uin	9569
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/01/2024 answer text <p>Network North increased the funding of Midlands Rail Hub to £1.75bn and committed to deliver the scheme in full.</p><p>MRH is being developed for delivery in two phases. The first phase, improved services between Birmingham, Bristol, Cardiff and Worcester, is currently anticipated to be operational in the early 2030s. The second phase, improved services between Birmingham and the East Midlands, is currently anticipated to be operational from the mid to late 2030s.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Bexhill and Battle answering member printed Huw Merriman question first answered 22/01/2024 14:38:06 answering member 4442 label Biography information for Huw Merriman
tabling member	4473 label Biography information for Louise Haigh

1682190

registered interest
date	15/01/2024
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Railways
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what estimate he has made of the (a) final cost and (b) completion date of the proposed reopening of the Beeching Lines.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Heeley
tabling member printed	Louise Haigh
uin	9570
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/01/2024 answer text <p>The Restoring Your Railway programme comprises a number of schemes at different stages of development and delivery. Costs and delivery timeframes will vary by scheme.</p> answering member constituency Bexhill and Battle answering member printed Huw Merriman question first answered 22/01/2024 14:16:46 answering member 4442 label Biography information for Huw Merriman
tabling member	4473 label Biography information for Louise Haigh

1682191

registered interest
date	15/01/2024
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Euston Station: Housing
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what estimate he has made of the (a) final cost and (b) completion date of the proposed Euston Quarter development.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Heeley
tabling member printed	Louise Haigh
uin	9571
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/01/2024 answer text <p>Following the Network North announcement on 4 October 2023, we are upping the ambition of the Euston redevelopment, to create a transformed ‘Euston Quarter’. We are going to deliver a station that can be open and running trains as soon as possible while radically reducing its costs, enabling £6.5bn of savings to be spent on transport projects across the country. We will deliver a 6-platform station which can accommodate the trains we will run to Birmingham and onwards and which best supports regeneration of the local area. We will update Parliament on the progress on developing the proposal for the Euston Quarter, including providing updated schedule and costs estimates, in due course.</p> answering member constituency Bexhill and Battle answering member printed Huw Merriman question first answered 22/01/2024 14:14:49 answering member 4442 label Biography information for Huw Merriman
tabling member	4473 label Biography information for Louise Haigh

1682193

registered interest
date	15/01/2024
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	North Wales Coast Line: Electrification
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what estimate he has made of the (a) final cost and (b) completion date of the electrification of the North Wales mainline.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Heeley
tabling member printed	Louise Haigh
uin	9572
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/01/2024 answer text <p>As part of the Prime Minister’s Network North announcement, the Government committed an unprecedented £1 billion investment to fund the electrification of the North Wales Main Line. We continue to work through the next steps for developing and delivering the scheme.</p> answering member constituency Bexhill and Battle answering member printed Huw Merriman question first answered 22/01/2024 14:13:09 answering member 4442 label Biography information for Huw Merriman
tabling member	4473 label Biography information for Louise Haigh

1682201

registered interest
date	15/01/2024
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Electric Vehicles: Charging Points
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what recent estimate he has made of the number of public charge points for electric vehicles there will be by 2030.
tabling member constituency	Warrington North
tabling member printed	Charlotte Nichols
uin	9686
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/01/2024 answer text <p>The Government outlined in its 2022 Electric Vehicle (EV) Infrastructure strategy that around 300,000 publicly available charging devices are expected to be needed to meet 2030 charging demand.</p><p> </p><p>The number of public charging devices is rapidly increasing. 16,622 chargepoints were installed in 2023, bringing the total number of public chargepoints to 53,677 on 1 January 2024 – an increase of 45% since 1 January 2023. This puts us on a growth rate consistent with over 300,000 public charging devices in the UK by 2030.</p> answering member constituency South Cambridgeshire answering member printed Anthony Browne question first answered 23/01/2024 11:45:31 answering member 4801 label Biography information for Anthony Browne
tabling member	4799 label Biography information for Charlotte Nichols

1682233

registered interest
date	15/01/2024
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Bus Services: Fares
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what recent steps his Department has taken to help increase the affordability of bus travel.
tabling member constituency	Putney
tabling member printed	Fleur Anderson
uin	9683
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/01/2024 answer text <p>In the National Bus Strategy, the Government set out a bold vision to transform bus services around the country; a key part of this vision was making bus services more affordable. We therefore introduced a £2 cap on single bus fares in England outside London on 1 January 2023 to help passengers save on their regular travel costs. The Government is investing nearly £600 million to deliver the scheme, including additional funding redirected from HS2 to keep the cap in place until the end of 2024. There are currently over 140 bus operators and more than 5,000 routes in the scheme.</p><p>The Department’s statistics show that following the introduction of the £2 fare cap in January 2023, bus fares in England outside London dropped by 6.2% between September 2022 and September 2023, whereas in Scotland, Wales and London, where buses are devolved and not included in the £2 fare cap, fares increased by 9.8%, 6.2% and 6.0%, respectively.</p><p>In October 2023, the Prime Minister also announced that a further £1 billion would be redirected from HS2 to deliver better bus services in the North and the Midlands. This funding is in addition to the more than £1.2 billion the Government is already providing to Local Transport Authorities (LTAs) to deliver their Bus Service Improvement Plans (BSIPs). BSIP funding is intended to be used by LTAs to support the aims of the National Bus Strategy to make buses more frequent, more reliable, easier to understand and use, better co-ordinated and more affordable. It sets out the changes we want to see on fares, including for low flat fares (or maximum fares and daily price caps) to be the norm within cities and towns. Each LTAs BSIP sets out how they will achieve these objectives, including plans and costs for implementing new fares and ticketing policies, in addition to the Government’s £2 fare cap, to reduce costs for passengers.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman question first answered 22/01/2024 14:10:14 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
tabling member	4788 label Biography information for Fleur Anderson