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registered interest
date	03/02/2016
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Railways: Woking
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps his Department is taking to create additional capacity on peak weekday rail services on the South West Main Line between Woking and London Waterloo.
tabling member constituency	Woking
tabling member printed	Mr Jonathan Lord
uin	25708
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/02/2016 answer text <p>In March 2015, I announced a £50 million investment to deliver improvements across the South Western franchise before the end of the current franchise in 2017. This package of improvements included an additional Monday to Thursday late night service from London to Woking, and new ticket machines at Woking and London Waterloo Stations.</p><p> </p><p>An additional 108 carriages are being added to the South Western franchise which should all be in passenger service by March of this year, with a further 150 carriages on order and due to arrive in 2017. These additional carriages provide additional capacity across a number of the routes operated, including those serving Woking.</p><p> </p><p>The Department is running a competition to award the next South Western franchise, which is expected to start in 2017. The detailed franchise specification will be finalised following analysis of the responses to the public consultation, which closes on 9 February. It is expected that bidders will be asked to make proposals to provide capacity where it is needed most.</p><p> </p><p>With regard to road links, Highways England is currently making improvements to the nearby M3 by constructing a smart motorway between junctions 2 and 4a (13.4 miles/21.6km). The aim of smart motorways is to help relieve congestion by using technology to control traffic flows, to assist in the management of incidents and provide information to road users. They deliver these benefits at a significantly lower cost than conventional motorway widening and with less impact on the environment during construction. This is achieved by converting the existing hard shoulder to a permanent running lane. Work started in November 2014 and is expected to be completed towards the end of June 2017.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry grouped question UIN 25707 question first answered 10/02/2016 15:42:02 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
tabling member	4090 label Biography information for Mr Jonathan Lord

174462

registered interest
date	19/01/2015
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Railways: Woking
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 likely passenger numbers on trains from Woking to London Waterloo in (a) 2019 to 2024 and (b) 2025 to 2043.
tabling member constituency	Woking
tabling member printed	Jonathan Lord
uin	221210
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/01/2015 answer text <p>We have not estimated likely passenger numbers on trains from Woking to London Waterloo during these periods. Recent studies (Wessex Route Study and the London &amp; South East Market Study) have estimated a 40% growth in the number of rail passengers travelling to central London during peak hours between 2011 to 2043.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 26/01/2015 16:58:39 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
tabling member	4090 label Biography information for Mr Jonathan Lord

174463

registered interest
date	19/01/2015
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Railways: Woking
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many seats are available on trains from Woking to London Waterloo during morning weekday peak hours.
tabling member constituency	Woking
tabling member printed	Jonathan Lord
uin	221211
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/01/2015 answer text <p>There were 29,200 seats on services from Woking arriving at London Waterloo in the 3 hour morning peak (7-10am) on a typical weekday in autumn 2013, the most recent period that statistics are available for.</p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 21/01/2015 11:49:40 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
tabling member	4090 label Biography information for Mr Jonathan Lord

174464

registered interest
date	19/01/2015
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Railways: Woking
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 average daily number of passengers using morning peak weekday rail services from Woking to London Waterloo.
tabling member constituency	Woking
tabling member printed	Jonathan Lord
uin	221212
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/01/2015 answer text <p>I refer my Hon Friend to my previous answer of 27 October 2014 [UIN 211109].</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 26/01/2015 16:55:41 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
tabling member	4090 label Biography information for Mr Jonathan Lord

174253

registered interest
date	16/01/2015
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Railways: Woking
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many additional seats he expects will be made available on trains from Woking to London Waterloo in non-peak hours in each of the years from 2015 to 2018.
tabling member constituency	Woking
tabling member printed	Jonathan Lord
uin	221140
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/01/2015 answer text <p>During 2015-2016 I expect nearly 2900 additional seats will be made available on trains from Woking to London Waterloo during peak hours. On top of this figure by the end of 2018 over 4200 additional seats will be provided.</p><p> </p><p>The provision of additional capacity during Off Peak periods is not specifically contracted, however just over 2600 additional seats will be provided during 2015-16. Off-peak services beyond 2017 have not been contracted in detail but there is likely to be an increase during the off peak period as well.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry grouped question UIN 221141 question first answered 22/01/2015 13:16:36 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
tabling member	4090 label Biography information for Mr Jonathan Lord

174254

registered interest
date	16/01/2015
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Railways: Woking
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many additional seats he expects will be made available on trains from Woking to London Waterloo during peak hours in each of the years from 2015 to 2018.
tabling member constituency	Woking
tabling member printed	Jonathan Lord
uin	221141
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/01/2015 answer text <p>During 2015-2016 I expect nearly 2900 additional seats will be made available on trains from Woking to London Waterloo during peak hours. On top of this figure by the end of 2018 over 4200 additional seats will be provided.</p><p> </p><p>The provision of additional capacity during Off Peak periods is not specifically contracted, however just over 2600 additional seats will be provided during 2015-16. Off-peak services beyond 2017 have not been contracted in detail but there is likely to be an increase during the off peak period as well.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry grouped question UIN 221140 question first answered 22/01/2015 13:16:35 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
tabling member	4090 label Biography information for Mr Jonathan Lord

99932

registered interest
date	20/10/2014
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Railways: Woking
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what plans he has to reduce overcrowding on trains from Woking to London Waterloo; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Woking
tabling member printed	Jonathan Lord
uin	211108
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/10/2014 answer text <p>On the 3 September 2014, the Government and Stagecoach South Western Trains (SSWT) announced a £210 million deal for a fleet of new trains to increase capacity on some of the UK’s busiest commuter routes.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The order for 150 new train carriages will provide capacity for 24,000 additional peak-time passengers every day travelling into London Waterloo by May 2018.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>These new trains will be deployed on suburban routes and will allow a further cascade of rolling stock enabling SSWT to deliver two new peak mainline services from May 2018; one from Woking and one from Basingstoke.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>These carriages are in-addition to the 108 additional carriages secured in 2011/12, which have begun to arrive and are being used to lengthen suburban services trains from 8 to 10-cars.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 23/10/2014 11:23:53 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
tabling member	4090 label Biography information for Mr Jonathan Lord

99933

registered interest
date	20/10/2014
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Railways: Woking
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 overcrowding on rail services from Woking to London Waterloo.
tabling member constituency	Woking
tabling member printed	Jonathan Lord
uin	211109
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/10/2014 answer text <p>The Department for Transport (DfT) holds information on the number of passengers on board services from Woking to London when they reach London, however information for individual routes is considered commercially confidential and so cannot be released. An exception to this are those services which appear in the ‘Top 10 overcrowded trains’ lists that are published, which regularly include services between Woking and London Waterloo, and I recently travelled on this route to experience the crowding on it.</p><p> </p><p>The Department does not hold information on crowding on services leaving Woking which do not go to London.</p><p> </p><p>DfT publishes statistics showing overall passenger numbers and crowding levels on the route into London Waterloo in the publication <em>Rail passenger numbers and crowding on weekdays in major cities in England and Wales: 2013</em>, which is available in the Libraries of the House and online at <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/rail-passenger-numbers-and-crowding-on-weekdays-in-major-cities-in-england-and-wales-2013" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/rail-passenger-numbers-and-crowding-on-weekdays-in-major-cities-in-england-and-wales-2013</a>.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry grouped question UIN 211073 question first answered 27/10/2014 14:08:03 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
tabling member	4090 label Biography information for Mr Jonathan Lord

99938

registered interest
date	20/10/2014
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Railways: Woking
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment he has made of the capacity utilisation on trains out of Woking between 6.30am and 9.00am on a weekday morning in the latest period for which figures are available.
tabling member constituency	Woking
tabling member printed	Jonathan Lord
uin	211073
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/10/2014 answer text <p>The Department for Transport (DfT) holds information on the number of passengers on board services from Woking to London when they reach London, however information for individual routes is considered commercially confidential and so cannot be released. An exception to this are those services which appear in the ‘Top 10 overcrowded trains’ lists that are published, which regularly include services between Woking and London Waterloo, and I recently travelled on this route to experience the crowding on it.</p><p> </p><p>The Department does not hold information on crowding on services leaving Woking which do not go to London.</p><p> </p><p>DfT publishes statistics showing overall passenger numbers and crowding levels on the route into London Waterloo in the publication <em>Rail passenger numbers and crowding on weekdays in major cities in England and Wales: 2013</em>, which is available in the Libraries of the House and online at <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/rail-passenger-numbers-and-crowding-on-weekdays-in-major-cities-in-england-and-wales-2013" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/rail-passenger-numbers-and-crowding-on-weekdays-in-major-cities-in-england-and-wales-2013</a>.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry grouped question UIN 211109 question first answered 27/10/2014 14:08:04 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
tabling member	4090 label Biography information for Mr Jonathan Lord