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1467368

registered interest
date	07/06/2022
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Motor Vehicles: Noise
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps the Government is taking to tackle noise pollution from vehicles.
tabling member constituency	South West Hertfordshire
tabling member printed	Mr Gagan Mohindra
uin	11896
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/06/2022 answer text <p>The police and local authorities have powers to enforce against vehicles that have been modified, or are driven in a way, to create excessive noise. However, barriers exist to effective enforcement. Following encouraging initial research, the Department is conducting further trials of the latest “noise camera” technology to understand if it can be used to automatically detect excessively noisy vehicles.</p><p>As the research develops, the Government will keep under review the way “noise cameras” can be used to tackle noise pollution from vehicles.</p> answering member constituency Copeland answering member printed Trudy Harrison question first answered 13/06/2022 10:52:49 answering member 4593 label Biography information for Trudy Harrison
tabling member	4804 label Biography information for Mr Gagan Mohindra

1468024

registered interest
date	07/06/2022
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Transport: Exhaust Emissions
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 steps he is taking to reduce emissions from transport across the UK.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	13718
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/06/2022 answer text <p>Last year the department published its Transport Decarbonisation Plan that provides a credible, deliverable pathway to reduce emissions and deliver transport’s contribution to carbon budgets and net zero.</p> answering member constituency Copeland answering member printed Trudy Harrison question first answered 15/06/2022 09:11:43 answering member 4593 label Biography information for Trudy Harrison
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

1468040

registered interest
date	07/06/2022
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	EasyJet
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what discussions he has had with representatives of EasyJet on flight cancellations caused by IT failures at that company.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	13734
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/06/2022 answer text <p>I am aware that as a result of an IT failure on 27 May easyJet enacted rehearsed contingency plans to managed unexpected events. This resulted in the cancellation and delay of some flights while the issue was resolved. Any IT failure is unfortunate but I have been reassured by easyJet that this was an isolated incident and was quickly resolved.</p><p>easyJet have were involved in the meeting I and the Secretary of State chaired on 1 June, they are also involved in the Strategic Risk Group which I chaired on Tuesday 14 June and will continue to chair weekly.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Witney answering member printed Robert Courts question first answered 15/06/2022 09:17:38 answering member 4589 label Biography information for Robert Courts
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

1468043

registered interest
date	07/06/2022
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Tyres: Regulation
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 introduce regulations on (a) the wear rate of and (b) chemicals contained within tyres.
tabling member constituency	Richmond Park
tabling member printed	Sarah Olney
uin	13802
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/06/2022 answer text <p>The development of regulations to limit emissions from tyre wear depends on the development of an internationally recognised test procedure for measuring them. This issue is being examined by the UN ECE Particle Measurement Programme (PMP), which includes DfT officials, other international governments, and the automotive industry. DfT is one of the founders of PMP and has played a leading role since its inception.</p><p>To support the work of the PMP group, DfT commissioned a 3-year research project in February 2021 aimed at understanding better the measurement techniques, material properties and control parameters of non-exhaust emissions from road vehicles, which include tyre wear emissions. The findings of this project will also enable a comparative assessment of the particulate emitted by tyre wear in real driving conditions and exhaust fumes.</p><p>This project will inform policy and legislation aiming at reducing these emissions on a domestic and international level.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Copeland answering member printed Trudy Harrison question first answered 13/06/2022 10:43:34 answering member 4593 label Biography information for Trudy Harrison
tabling member	4591 label Biography information for Sarah Olney

1468044

registered interest
date	07/06/2022
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Tyres: Pollution
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether he has made a comparative assessment of the particulate pollution produced by (a) tyre wear and (b) exhaust fumes; and whether his Department plans to take to steps tackle particulate pollution from tyre wear.
tabling member constituency	Richmond Park
tabling member printed	Sarah Olney
uin	13803
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/06/2022 answer text <p>The development of regulations to limit emissions from tyre wear depends on the development of an internationally recognised test procedure for measuring them. This issue is being examined by the UN ECE Particle Measurement Programme (PMP), which includes DfT officials, other international governments, and the automotive industry. DfT is one of the founders of PMP and has played a leading role since its inception.</p><p>To support the work of the PMP group, DfT commissioned a 3-year research project in February 2021 aimed at understanding better the measurement techniques, material properties and control parameters of non-exhaust emissions from road vehicles, which include tyre wear emissions. The findings of this project will also enable a comparative assessment of the particulate emitted by tyre wear in real driving conditions and exhaust fumes.</p><p>This project will inform policy and legislation aiming at reducing these emissions on a domestic and international level.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Copeland answering member printed Trudy Harrison question first answered 13/06/2022 10:44:16 answering member 4593 label Biography information for Trudy Harrison
tabling member	4591 label Biography information for Sarah Olney

1468045

registered interest
date	07/06/2022
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Shipping: Redundancy
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether he has plans to take steps to prevent mass redundancies of UK seafarers, in the context of P&O Ferries' dismissal of 800 staff.
tabling member constituency	Kilmarnock and Loudoun
tabling member printed	Alan Brown
uin	13760
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/06/2022 answer text <p>The Government has made clear our commitment to protecting seafarer welfare and employment rights, especially from dismissals without meaningful employee consultation. Through our new seafarer protections nine-point plan we will introduce a Seafarer Protection Framework, which will set out a common level of employment protections. In addition to this, BEIS are progressing a new statutory code on fire and rehire practices, which will clamp down on unscrupulous employers who fail to engage in meaningful consultations with employees.</p> answering member constituency Witney answering member printed Robert Courts question first answered 14/06/2022 09:55:37 answering member 4589 label Biography information for Robert Courts
tabling member	4470 label Biography information for Alan Brown

1468046

registered interest
date	07/06/2022
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Shipping: Pay
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps he is taking to ensure that pay for UK seafarers is protected.
tabling member constituency	Kilmarnock and Loudoun
tabling member printed	Alan Brown
uin	13761
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/06/2022 answer text <p>Following P&amp;O Ferries’ disgraceful actions, the Secretary of State announced a nine point plan to improve seafarers protections. Legislation will be introduced as soon as Parliamentary time allows that intends to ensure that seafarers working on vessels that regularly use UK ports are paid at least an equivalent rate to the UK National Minimum Wage, irrespective of the nationality or the seafarer or flag of the vessel. We intend to achieve this by making access to UK ports conditional on vessel operators demonstrating that they are paying at least an equivalent rate to the UK National Minimum Wage to their seafarers while in UK waters. In parallel we are liaising with international partners to set up bilateral minimum wage equivalent corridors, in the territorial waters of each country, as well as working through international organisations to create a step change in seafarer welfare.</p> answering member constituency Witney answering member printed Robert Courts question first answered 15/06/2022 09:07:57 answering member 4589 label Biography information for Robert Courts
tabling member	4470 label Biography information for Alan Brown

1468047

registered interest
date	07/06/2022
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Shipping: Minimum Wage
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps he is taking to ensure that foreign flagged vessels serving UK ports comply with UK minimum wage requirements when in international waters.
tabling member constituency	Kilmarnock and Loudoun
tabling member printed	Alan Brown
uin	13762
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/06/2022 answer text <p>Legislation will be introduced as soon as Parliamentary time allows that intends to ensure that seafarers working on vessels that regularly use UK ports are paid at least an equivalent rate to the UK National Minimum Wage, irrespective of the nationality or the seafarer or flag of the vessel. We intend to achieve this by making access to UK ports conditional on vessel operators demonstrating that they are paying at least an equivalent rate to the UK National Minimum Wage to their seafarers while in UK waters. In addition we are also working with like-minded partners on the development of bilateral minimum wage corridors, ensuring seafarers on direct ferry routes are paid the equivalent to the minimum wage of either country, whilst in our respective territorial waters and subject to the legislative competence of each Government.</p> answering member constituency Witney answering member printed Robert Courts question first answered 14/06/2022 10:08:13 answering member 4589 label Biography information for Robert Courts
tabling member	4470 label Biography information for Alan Brown

1468048

registered interest
date	07/06/2022
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Shipping: Crew
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether he is taking steps to help ensure that foreign flagged vessels serving UK ports maximise employment of UK seafarers.
tabling member constituency	Kilmarnock and Loudoun
tabling member printed	Alan Brown
uin	13763
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/06/2022 answer text <p>We remain committed to maximising the employment of UK seafarers. That is why we support a proportion of the cost of seafarer training though our £30m Support for Maritime Training fund. A range of maritime apprenticeships are also available.</p><p>Maritime 2050’s workforce vision focused on good maritime welfare. We are working to improve and reform seafarer employment protections and welfare, ensuring they are paid and treated fairly, irrespective of flag or nationality.</p><p>On 30 March, the Secretary of State for Transport announced his intention to change the law so that seafarers working on vessels that regularly use UK ports are paid at least the equivalent to national minimum wage, irrespective of the nationality of the seafarer or flag of the vessel.</p> answering member constituency Witney answering member printed Robert Courts question first answered 15/06/2022 09:09:37 answering member 4589 label Biography information for Robert Courts
tabling member	4470 label Biography information for Alan Brown

1468061

registered interest
date	07/06/2022
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Chesterfield Canal: Tunnels
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will make an assessment of how best Highways England could implement Dr Geraint Coles’ proposals to reinstate the Chesterfield Canal route under the M1.
tabling member constituency	Rother Valley
tabling member printed	Alexander Stafford
uin	13849
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/06/2022 answer text <p>I would encourage the Honourable Member to get in touch with National Highways who would be happy to discuss this matter.</p> answering member constituency Copeland answering member printed Trudy Harrison question first answered 15/06/2022 12:08:39 answering member 4593 label Biography information for Trudy Harrison
tabling member	4866 label Biography information for Alexander Stafford