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1136881

registered interest
date	04/07/2019
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Fisheries: Scotland
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 announcement of 3 July 2019 on specialist life vests to improve fishing safety, how much of the additional £700,000 in funding will be allocated to the Scottish Government to administer safety training.
tabling member constituency	Argyll and Bute
tabling member printed	Brendan O'Hara
uin	273395
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/07/2019 answer text <p>The Fishing Industry Safety Group Strategy and the Government aims to eliminate preventable deaths in fishing in the UK by 2027. The funding is therefore available to all UK fishermen and will be administered by Trinity House. Officials will be meeting with representatives from the National Federations, including the Scottish Fishermen’s Federation to develop the funding proposals</p> answering member constituency Wealden answering member printed Ms Nusrat Ghani grouped question UIN 273396 273397 question first answered 09/07/2019 13:40:37 answering member 4460 label Biography information for Ms Nusrat Ghani
tabling member	4371 label Biography information for Brendan O'Hara

1136882

registered interest
date	04/07/2019
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Fisheries: Scotland
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 announcement of 3 July 2019 on specialist life vests to improve fishing safety, what proportion of the additional £700,000 in funding will be allocated to the Scottish Government to administer.
tabling member constituency	Argyll and Bute
tabling member printed	Brendan O'Hara
uin	273396
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/07/2019 answer text <p>The Fishing Industry Safety Group Strategy and the Government aims to eliminate preventable deaths in fishing in the UK by 2027. The funding is therefore available to all UK fishermen and will be administered by Trinity House. Officials will be meeting with representatives from the National Federations, including the Scottish Fishermen’s Federation to develop the funding proposals</p> answering member constituency Wealden answering member printed Ms Nusrat Ghani grouped question UIN 273395 273397 question first answered 09/07/2019 13:40:37 answering member 4460 label Biography information for Ms Nusrat Ghani
tabling member	4371 label Biography information for Brendan O'Hara

1136883

registered interest
date	04/07/2019
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Fisheries: Scotland
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 announcement of 3 July 2019 on specialist life vests to improve fishing safety, how many personal floatation devices fitted with locator beacons will be made available to Scottish fishermen.
tabling member constituency	Argyll and Bute
tabling member printed	Brendan O'Hara
uin	273397
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/07/2019 answer text <p>The Fishing Industry Safety Group Strategy and the Government aims to eliminate preventable deaths in fishing in the UK by 2027. The funding is therefore available to all UK fishermen and will be administered by Trinity House. Officials will be meeting with representatives from the National Federations, including the Scottish Fishermen’s Federation to develop the funding proposals</p> answering member constituency Wealden answering member printed Ms Nusrat Ghani grouped question UIN 273395 273396 question first answered 09/07/2019 13:40:37 answering member 4460 label Biography information for Ms Nusrat Ghani
tabling member	4371 label Biography information for Brendan O'Hara

1136904

registered interest
date	04/07/2019
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Pedestrians: Accidents
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many pedestrians were involved in road traffic accidents while using a mobile phone in the last year for which figures are available.
tabling member constituency	North Thanet
tabling member printed	Sir Roger Gale
uin	273297
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/07/2019 answer text <p>The department does not collect data specifically on mobile phone use for pedestrians involved in road accidents. The department collects data on personal injury road accidents reported to the police, including contributory factors which the police select when they attend the scene. This does not assign blame for the accident but gives an indication of factors the attending officer thought contributed to the accident.</p><p> </p><p>In 2017, the latest year for which figures are available, there were 2,490 road accidents involving pedestrians where the contributory factor of ‘Pedestrian careless, reckless or in a hurry’ was allocated to an injured or killed pedestrian, and 35 where this factor was allocated to an uninjured pedestrian in Great Britain.</p><p> </p><p>This contributory factor includes cases where the pedestrian either behaved in a negligent or thoughtless manner or was in a hurry and, therefore, behaved in an unsafe manner. It also includes cases where a pedestrian was distracted (e.g. using a mobile phone).</p><p> </p><p>Statistics on the number of accidents involving pedestrians by contributory factor assigned to pedestrians are available in table RAS50004: <a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/743098/ras50004.ods" target="_blank">https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/743098/ras50004.ods</a>.</p> answering member constituency Northampton North answering member printed Michael Ellis question first answered 11/07/2019 10:18:04 answering member 4116 label Biography information for Sir Michael Ellis
tabling member	87 label Biography information for Sir Roger Gale

1136910

registered interest
date	04/07/2019
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Department for Transport: Serco
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many contracts his Department has awarded to Serco since July 2013; and what the value is of those contracts.
tabling member constituency	Cardiff Central
tabling member printed	Jo Stevens
uin	273406
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/07/2019 answer text <p>A total of four contracts were awarded to Serco by the Department for Transport since July 2013. The total value of these contracts is £175,200.95</p> answering member constituency Northampton North answering member printed Michael Ellis question first answered 09/07/2019 10:55:45 answering member 4116 label Biography information for Sir Michael Ellis
tabling member	4425 label Biography information for Jo Stevens

1136931

registered interest
date	04/07/2019
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 Transport, with reference to the Clean Air Strategy 2019, what guidance he has issued to ports on developing effective and targeted air quality strategies; and what recommendations the rail industry has made on phasing out diesel-only trains by 2040.
tabling member constituency	Greenwich and Woolwich
tabling member printed	Matthew Pennycook
uin	273469
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/07/2019 answer text <p>The Government committed in the Clean Air Strategy to publish guidelines to advise ports on how to develop effective and targeted air quality strategies. Also in January 2019, the Government published Maritime 2050 which set out strategic ambitions for the future of the maritime sector, including a vision for zero emission shipping.</p><p> </p><p>Building on these commitments, the Government will this week publish port air quality strategy guidelines, as well as the Clean Maritime Plan, which will set out further detail on a route map to reduce both air quality pollutant emissions and carbon dioxide from the maritime sector. My honourable friend, the Maritime Minister, will make a further statement to the House on the measures included within the plan on the day of publication.</p><p> </p><p>The rail industry decarbonisation taskforce published an interim report in January 2019. We expect the taskforce to publish its final report shortly.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Northampton North answering member printed Michael Ellis question first answered 11/07/2019 10:27:11 answering member 4116 label Biography information for Sir Michael Ellis
tabling member	4520 label Biography information for Matthew Pennycook

1136939

registered interest
date	04/07/2019
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	A19
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will allocate funding to (a) improve road safety and (b) ensure sufficient capacity on the A19 in respect of traffic created by the Jade Business Park in Murton and the South of Seaham Garden Village.
tabling member constituency	Easington
tabling member printed	Grahame Morris
uin	273378
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/07/2019 answer text <p>The Department expects to publish decisions in the latter part of the year on funding for the strategic road network between 2020 and 2025. However, we have already announced our intention to provide a safety and congestion designated fund. Highways England will decide where best to allocate this funding.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Northampton North answering member printed Michael Ellis question first answered 09/07/2019 11:04:12 answering member 4116 label Biography information for Sir Michael Ellis
tabling member	3973 label Biography information for Grahame Morris

1136981

registered interest
date	04/07/2019
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Cycling and Walking: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how much funding the Government is allocating towards meeting its targets for walking and cycling.
tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
tabling member printed	Frank Field
uin	273330
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/07/2019 answer text <p>The Government’s Cycling and Walking Investment Strategy (CWIS), published in April 2017, identified £1.2 billion of funding available for cycling and walking projects over the period 2016-21. Since then, additional funding streams have been made available, including the Transforming Cities Fund, Clean Air Fund, Future High Streets Fund and Housing Infrastructure Fund. As a result, almost £2bn of funding is now projected to be invested in cycling and walking projects between 2016/17 to 2020/21 from a range of funding programmes across Government.</p> answering member constituency Northampton North answering member printed Michael Ellis question first answered 09/07/2019 13:11:42 answering member 4116 label Biography information for Sir Michael Ellis
tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead

1137010

registered interest
date	04/07/2019
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Great Western Railway: Rolling Stock
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, on how many occasions Great Western trains ran with reduced carriage numbers as a result of a shortage of sets in each month since the introduction of the new trains in October 2017.
tabling member constituency	Stroud
tabling member printed	Dr David Drew
uin	273317
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/07/2019 answer text <p>The Department for Transport does not hold the data requested.</p> answering member constituency Harrogate and Knaresborough answering member printed Andrew Jones question first answered 09/07/2019 14:13:55 answering member 3996 label Biography information for Andrew Jones
tabling member	252 label Biography information for Dr David Drew

1137072

registered interest
date	04/07/2019
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Tyres: Safety
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Earl Howe on 13 June (HL16129), what scientific studies, if any, were the basis for determining that the maximum safe life of a tyre on a heavy goods vehicle or coach is 10 years.
tabling member printed	Earl Attlee
uin	HL16936
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/07/2019 answer text <p>The revision to the Guide to Maintaining Roadworthiness, introduced on 5 November 2018, included best practice guidance on managing the age of tyres fitted to heavy vehicles. It followed earlier Department for Transport advice, issued to bus and coach operators, in response to expert evidence provided to Her Majesty’s Coroner following the loss of three lives in a road traffic collision in 2012.</p><p> </p><p>In parallel, emerging evidence from Department for Transport research, suggested that age does influence the properties of a tyre. This emerging evidence, together with expert opinion, supported the use of the precautionary principle for the changes to the roadworthiness guidance.</p> answering member printed Baroness Vere of Norbiton question first answered 12/07/2019 10:45:38 answering member 4580 label Biography information for Baroness Vere of Norbiton
tabling member	3425 label Biography information for Earl Attlee