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747060

registered interest
date	30/06/2017
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Taxis: Licensing
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will make it his policy to give Transport for London statutory power to cap the number of private hire vehicle licences it issues.
tabling member constituency	Chipping Barnet
tabling member printed	Theresa Villiers
uin	2350
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/07/2017 answer text <p>The Mayor, Transport for London, the police and local authorities have a range of tools available to them to deal with congestion and parking issues as well as enforcement of the licensing regime. Effective use of these tools will allow both licensed taxi and PHVs to lawfully meet the demands of London’s travelling public.</p> answering member constituency South Holland and The Deepings answering member printed Mr John Hayes question first answered 05/07/2017 12:31:27 answering member 350 label Biography information for Sir John Hayes
tabling member	1500 label Biography information for Theresa Villiers

747084

registered interest
date	30/06/2017
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Highways England: Software
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether Highways England uses (a) Windows XP or (b) another Microsoft software package for any of its operating systems.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Heeley
tabling member printed	Louise Haigh
uin	2336
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/07/2017 answer text <p>For security reasons Highways England does not reveal details of its IT operating systems. However, Highways England has made clear that it continually assesses the security risk to its systems, and puts in place all the protections it deems necessary to safeguard its networks.</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 05/07/2017 12:24:24 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	4473 label Biography information for Louise Haigh

746812

registered interest
date	29/06/2017
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Railways: Bus Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will take steps to ensure that passengers who have to travel on a bus replacement service in lieu of a planned rail journey are compensated; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Stevenage
tabling member printed	Stephen McPartland
uin	2166
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/07/2017 answer text <p>Passengers rightly demand improvements to our railway services. That is why we are currently investing billions each year across the network. However, from time to time, it may be necessary to replace a train service with a bus or coach. Train companies’ responsibilities to passengers who have purchased a rail ticket are set out in the National Rail Conditions of Travel (NRCoT). The NRCoT apply on rail replacement services as for other train services, including the entitlement to compensation for any delayed journey, which is based on the advertised timetable. There is no specific entitlement to compensation relating to journeys involving the use of a rail replacement bus which run to the advertised timetable.</p><p> </p><p>Wherever engineering work is planned in advance, the train company or retailer will make passengers aware of any need to use a rail replacement service, including any altered times in timetable information, so that they may make an informed decision about their travel plans. If the replacement is at short notice, and the person wishing to travel cannot complete their journey because the company is unable to transport their luggage, articles, animals and/or cycles by road vehicle, and they therefore decide not to travel, they are entitled to claim a refund without any administration charge.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Blackpool North and Cleveleys answering member printed Paul Maynard question first answered 04/07/2017 16:25:18 answering member 3926 label Biography information for Paul Maynard
tabling member	4093 label Biography information for Stephen McPartland

746828

registered interest
date	29/06/2017
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Roads: Capital Investment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to page 6 of the Office of Rail and Road's Update on Highways England's capital planning and asset management, published on 2 February 2017, whether Highways England's revised capital baseline plan for Road Investment Strategy 1 has been approved by his Department.
tabling member constituency	Nottingham South
tabling member printed	Lilian Greenwood
uin	2028
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/07/2017 answer text <p>The Department have been working closely with Highways England and the Office of Rail and Road regarding Highways England’s plans to ensure successful delivery of the Road Investment Strategy.</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 04/07/2017 16:07:09 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	4029 label Biography information for Lilian Greenwood

746829

registered interest
date	29/06/2017
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Cycling and Walking: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to his Department's press release, Government publishes £1.2 billion plans to increase cycling and walking, published on 21 April 21017, what proportion of the £1.2 billion funding referred to in that press release had not been allocated to walking and cycling prior to April 2017.
tabling member constituency	Nottingham South
tabling member printed	Lilian Greenwood
uin	2029
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/07/2017 answer text <p>The £1.2 billion referred to in the Cycling and Walking Investment Strategy press release confirmed the amount of existing Government funding that is available to be invested in cycling and walking over the five year period from 2016/17 to 2020/21. This represents a clear Government commitment to sustained investment in cycling and walking.</p><p> </p><p>Alongside the £1.2 billion, additional funding has been announced, including £5 million for improving cycling facilities at railway stations; £1 million of funding for a Walk to School project and £1 million for Cycling UK’s Big Bike Revival scheme, providing free bike maintenance and cycle classes.</p><p> </p><p>Central government is also providing a programme of practical support to local authorities to help them to produce high quality Local Cycling and Walking Infrastructure Plans which can support the strategic economic case for cycling and walking investment.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 04/07/2017 16:11:17 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	4029 label Biography information for Lilian Greenwood

746830

registered interest
date	29/06/2017
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Level Crossings and Taxis
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what recent progress his Department has made on preparing legislation in response to the recommendations made in the Law Commission's reports on (a) Level Crossings, published on 25 September 2013, and (b) Taxi and Private Hire Services, published on 23 May 2014.
tabling member constituency	Nottingham South
tabling member printed	Lilian Greenwood
uin	2030
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/07/2017 answer text <p>The Department expects to make an announcement shortly on its proposed next steps in relation to the Law Commission’s report on level crossings. It is currently considering all the recommendations in the Law Commission’s report on taxi and private hire regulation in England and Wales against the backdrop of a rapidly changing industry and will formally respond to the Law Commission and announce its intentions once this scrutiny is completed.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Blackpool North and Cleveleys answering member printed Paul Maynard question first answered 04/07/2017 16:14:07 answering member 3926 label Biography information for Paul Maynard
tabling member	4029 label Biography information for Lilian Greenwood

746831

registered interest
date	29/06/2017
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Highways England: Staff
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many people are employed in Highways England's Capital Portfolio Management team on a headcount and FTE basis; and how many vacancies there are in that team currently.
tabling member constituency	Nottingham South
tabling member printed	Lilian Greenwood
uin	2031
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/07/2017 answer text <p>As at 30/06/2017 Highways England have a total of 37 people employed within the Capital Portfolio Management team. On an FTE basis there are 34, rounded down from 34.2.</p><p> </p><p>There are currently 4 live vacancies for the Capital Portfolio Management team.</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 04/07/2017 16:16:46 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	4029 label Biography information for Lilian Greenwood

746832

registered interest
date	29/06/2017
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	High Speed 2 Line
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what the total (a) revenue and (b) capital expenditure on HS2 has been in each year from 2009-10 from (i) his Department, (ii) HS2 Ltd and (iii) Network Rail.
tabling member constituency	Nottingham South
tabling member printed	Lilian Greenwood
uin	2032
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/07/2017 answer text <p>In the six years between 2009/10 and 2015/16 the Government spent around £1.4bn on delivering the HS2 programme. This is made up of the costs incurred by HS2 Ltd and expenditure on land and property. HS2 Ltd expenditure includes payments made to Network Rail. The Department for Transport also spent around £70m on internal resource costs, including staff and technical support.</p><p> </p><p>The table below sets out HS2 expenditure by year:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong> </strong></p></td><td><p><strong> </strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2009/10</strong> <strong>£m</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2010/11</strong> <strong>£m</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2011/12</strong> <strong>£m</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2012/13</strong> <strong>£m</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2013/14</strong> <strong>£m</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2014/15</strong> <strong>£m</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2015/16</strong> <strong>£m</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>HS2 Ltd</p></td><td><p>Resource</p></td><td><p>9.4</p></td><td><p>14.6</p></td><td><p>33.9</p></td><td><p>176.4</p></td><td><p>208.4</p></td><td><p>33.1</p></td><td><p>34.4</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Capital</p></td><td><p>0.03</p></td><td><p>0.1</p></td><td><p>0.4</p></td><td><p>8.1</p></td><td><p>2.1</p></td><td><p>156.5</p></td><td><p>318.5</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Land &amp; Property</p></td><td><p>Capital</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>9.6</p></td><td><p>19.7</p></td><td><p>23.1</p></td><td><p>105.3</p></td><td><p>174.9</p></td><td><p>113.2</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>DfT</p></td><td><p>Resource</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>1.7</p></td><td><p>5.6</p></td><td><p>14.7</p></td><td><p>20.9</p></td><td><p>26.5</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Total</strong></p></td><td><p><strong> </strong></p></td><td><p><strong>9.43</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>24.3</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>55.7</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>213.2</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>330.5</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>385.4</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>492.6</strong></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>For the purposes of this response, “revenue” has been interpreted as meaning “resource expenditure”. Figures for 2016-17 will be available later in the summer as part of the HS2 Ltd Accounts. Due to the configuration of the HS2 Ltd accounting system, it would be disproportionately costly to disaggregate NR costs from HS2 Ltd total expenditure.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Blackpool North and Cleveleys answering member printed Paul Maynard question first answered 04/07/2017 16:20:48 answering member 3926 label Biography information for Paul Maynard
tabling member	4029 label Biography information for Lilian Greenwood

746881

registered interest
date	29/06/2017
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Taxis: Migrant Workers
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what the Government's policy is on whether licensed private hire vehicle drivers are required to pass a test in English as a condition of holding a licence.
tabling member constituency	Christchurch
tabling member printed	Mr Christopher Chope
uin	2171
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/07/2017 answer text <p>The legislation that provides for licensing of taxi and private hire vehicle (PHV) services is enabling in its nature, giving licensing authorities the discretion to set standards that they deem to be appropriate including language skills. To which end the Department’s current best practice guidance to licensing authorities states that they “may also wish to consider whether an applicant for a taxi or PHV driver licence would have any problems in communicating with customers because of language difficulties.”</p><p> </p> answering member constituency South Holland and The Deepings answering member printed Mr John Hayes question first answered 04/07/2017 16:28:04 answering member 350 label Biography information for Sir John Hayes
tabling member	242 label Biography information for Sir Christopher Chope

746170

registered interest
date	28/06/2017
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Railways: Standards
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will introduce a consumer satisfaction threshold for rail franchises; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Stevenage
tabling member printed	Stephen McPartland
uin	1649
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/07/2017 answer text <p>My Department is committed to driving improvements in the passenger’s experience. That is why we are including challenging customer satisfaction targets in Franchise Agreements which are based on the results of the National Rail Passenger Survey. Where the targets are not met, train companies are required to make financial investments to make sure that passengers get the standards of service that they rightly deserve. We are also continuing to review our policies in this area to ensure that passengers are placed at the heart of our franchise objectives and incentives.</p> answering member constituency Blackpool North and Cleveleys answering member printed Paul Maynard question first answered 03/07/2017 14:52:31 answering member 3926 label Biography information for Paul Maynard
tabling member	4093 label Biography information for Stephen McPartland