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1127111

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date	16/05/2019
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Driving Tests: Bournemouth
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, when the repairs at the Driving Test Centre in Gillam Road, Bournemouth are planned to be completed; and on what date that centre plans to reopen.
tabling member constituency	Christchurch
tabling member printed	Sir Christopher Chope
uin	255259
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/05/2019 answer text <p>The Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency is awaiting a surveyor’s report to establish what repairs need to be carried out to Bournemouth driving test centre (Gillam Road). It will make an assessment once the scope of the work required is clear.</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 21/05/2019 10:31:03 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	242 label Biography information for Sir Christopher Chope

1127207

registered interest
date	16/05/2019
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Cycling and Walking: Pupils
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will implement a safe routes to school programme to promote cycling and walking to and from school.
tabling member constituency	Croydon North
tabling member printed	Mr Steve Reed
uin	255335
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/05/2019 answer text <p>The Department supports safe cycling and walking to school and has committed £50 million to the Bikeability cycle training programme and over £6m of funding for a range of outreach programmes including Walk to School between 2016/17 and 2019/20.</p><p> </p><p>Decisions on future funding for cycling and walking programmes will be made in the context of the forthcoming Spending Review.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 21/05/2019 12:07:32 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	4268 label Biography information for Steve Reed

1127210

registered interest
date	16/05/2019
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Aviation: Carbon Emissions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what recent steps he has taken to reduce carbon emissions in aviation.
tabling member constituency	North Herefordshire
tabling member printed	Bill Wiggin
uin	255289
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/05/2019 answer text <p>In December 2018, the Government published a green paper consultation on its new aviation strategy, Aviation 2050. The strategy proposes a comprehensive approach to tackling aviation’s carbon emissions, taking into account the UK’s domestic and international obligations to ensure that aviation contributes its fair share to action on climate change. The white paper will be published later this year and will take into account recent advice from the Committee on Climate Change.</p><p> </p><p>The Government supports a range of measures to achieve its 2050 vision of reducing aviation carbon emissions, including efficiency improvements in technology, operations and air traffic management, use of renewable fuels and market-based measures.</p><p> </p><p>Recently, the Government extended eligibility for rewards under the Renewable Transport Fuels Obligation (RTFO) to aviation fuels, and is making available up to £20 million of matched capital funding to projects that will produce low carbon waste-based fuels to be used for aviation and Heavy Goods Vehicles through the Future Fuels for Flight and Freight Competition (F4C).</p><p> </p><p>The UK was instrumental in reaching agreement on the global carbon offsetting measure for aviation (CORSIA) in 2016 and continues to be actively involved in negotiating for a scheme that is environmentally effective and robust. The green paper also states that the UK will encourage ICAO to agree a long term emissions reduction goal at its 41st Assembly in 2022.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 23/05/2019 10:52:20 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	1428 label Biography information for Sir Bill Wiggin

1127211

registered interest
date	16/05/2019
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Roads: North Herefordshire
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what funding he has made available for the repair of roads in North Herefordshire.
tabling member constituency	North Herefordshire
tabling member printed	Bill Wiggin
uin	255290
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/05/2019 answer text <p>I refer my Honourable Friend to the answer I gave on 13 February 2019 (Hansard, 217499) which provided details of the funding the Department for Transport has allocated to Herefordshire County Council, as local highway authority, for the repair of roads and associated local highway assets since 2015.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 22/05/2019 13:50:19 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	1428 label Biography information for Sir Bill Wiggin

1127212

registered interest
date	16/05/2019
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Public Transport: Disability
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what recent steps he has taken to improve the accessibility of public transport for disabled passengers.
tabling member constituency	North Herefordshire
tabling member printed	Bill Wiggin
uin	255291
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/05/2019 answer text <p>The Government is committed to ensuring disabled people, including those with less visible disabilities such as autism, have the same access to transport and opportunities to travel as everyone else.</p><p> </p><p>In July 2018 the Department published the Inclusive Transport Strategy. Its ambition is to create a transport system that provides equal access for disabled people by 2030. It is ambitious and comprehensive, and sets a clear direction of travel, helping to create a society that works for all and will enable disabled people to travel confidently, easily and without extra cost.</p><p>The Department is making good progress delivering the many commitments set out in the Strategy, and will be reporting to Parliament on this in the summer.</p> answering member constituency Wealden answering member printed Ms Nusrat Ghani question first answered 21/05/2019 13:44:21 answering member 4460 label Biography information for Ms Nusrat Ghani
tabling member	1428 label Biography information for Sir Bill Wiggin