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416288

registered interest
date	04/09/2015
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Aircraft: Air Conditioning
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 prevent toxic fumes from aircraft engines entering the cabin and causing crew and passengers to fall ill.
tabling member constituency	Workington
tabling member printed	Sue Hayman
uin	8756
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/09/2015 answer text <p>Following a recommendation in 2007 by the Committee on Toxicity (the COT) – an independent committee of toxicology experts – the Department commissioned a series of scientific studies as part of a research programme into cabin air. The principal research study, carried out by Cranfield University, was published in May 2011. In addition to the principal study, three further research studies were commissioned and published by the Department. The Department’s four published reports were formally submitted to the COT for consideration in June 2012. The COT considered the research reports, as well as other research published in the scientific literature since 2007, and subsequently published their position paper in December 2013 in which they concluded that further research was needed to properly understand the effects.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Department does not plan to undertake any additional research on this issue and wrote to the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) informing them of the four scientific studies commissioned by the Department. The limited number of incidences means that a larger data sample from more than just the UK would be beneficial. In addition, given that the same planes, engines and oils are used all round the world and across borders, an international approach to any future research investigations would now be more appropriate. EASA has launched in spring 2015 a preliminary in-flight cabin air measurement campaign, which will develop the methodology and put into place adequate equipment to perform cockpit and cabin air measurements. The results of this campaign, which will be used to prepare for an envisaged large scale project in the future, are expected in autumn 2016. The Department will follow the progress of this work with interest.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>At a national level, the Aviation Health Unit as part of the Medical Department of the Civil Aviation Authority, will continue to monitor issues around cabin air as part of their wider role as the specialist adviser to the Government on aviation health issues.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Scarborough and Whitby answering member printed Mr Robert Goodwill question first answered 09/09/2015 13:45:33 answering member 1562 label Biography information for Sir Robert Goodwill
tabling member	4395 label Biography information for Baroness Hayman of Ullock

416326

registered interest
date	04/09/2015
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Parking: Disability
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what powers (a) local authorities and (b) the police have to enforce proper use of designated disabled parking spaces on public highways.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	8762
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/09/2015 answer text <p>Where a parking contravention has occurred in respect of a designated disabled parking space, local authorities that have taken on civil enforcement powers may issue a penalty charge under powers contained in the Traffic Management Act 2004. In areas still subject to police enforcement, traffic wardens may issue fixed penalties.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>If the contravention involves the misuse of a ‘Blue Badge’, which is a criminal offence, either a local authority or the police may prosecute the offender under section 117 of the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Harrogate and Knaresborough answering member printed Andrew Jones question first answered 09/09/2015 15:25:31 answering member 3996 label Biography information for Andrew Jones
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

416336

registered interest
date	04/09/2015
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Midland Main Line: Rolling Stock
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what timetable he has set for procurement of the replacement of the HST trains on the Midland Mainline.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield South East
tabling member printed	Mr Clive Betts
uin	8737
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/09/2015 answer text <p>The Department considers that franchisees are normally best placed to procure the rolling stock that they require to deliver the necessary levels of service and capacity.　 We expect the competition for the next East Midlands long-term franchise to deliver any necessary changes in the rolling stock that is utilised.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 09/09/2015 14:44:09 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
tabling member	394 label Biography information for Mr Clive Betts

416392

registered interest
date	04/09/2015
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Garden Bridge
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, when he will publish the (a) business case and (b) payment schedule for the £30 million allocated to the Garden Bridge project in the National Infrastructure Plan 2013.
tabling member constituency	Bishop Auckland
tabling member printed	Helen Goodman
uin	8955
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/09/2015 answer text <p>The Garden Bridge business case was published in May 2014. A copy can be obtained following this link:</p><p><a href="https://tfl.gov.uk/cdn/static/cms/documents/garden-bridge-strategic-outline-business-case.pdf" target="_blank">https://tfl.gov.uk/cdn/static/cms/documents/garden-bridge-strategic-outline-business-case.pdf</a></p><p> </p><p /> <p> </p><p /> <p> </p><p /> <p> </p><p /> <p> </p><p /> <p> </p><p /> <p>The full £30 million of Government’s contribution was provided to Transport for London (TfL) in 2014/15 via their general grant. A funding agreement was signed which required, among other things,　that TfL would jointly manage phased drawdown of both ‘their’ £30 million and ‘ours’ according to certain conditions:</p><p /> <p> </p><p /> <p> </p><p><a href="https://tfl.gov.uk/cdn/static/cms/documents/garden-bridge-funding-agreement.pdf" target="_blank">https://tfl.gov.uk/cdn/static/cms/documents/garden-bridge-funding-agreement.pdf</a></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Scarborough and Whitby answering member printed Mr Robert Goodwill question first answered 09/09/2015 13:53:59 answering member 1562 label Biography information for Sir Robert Goodwill
tabling member	1484 label Biography information for Helen Goodman

416409

registered interest
date	04/09/2015
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Cycling and Walking
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what his Department's average annual expenditure on (a) cycling and (b) walking per head was in each year from 2011-12 to 2015-16; and what plans his Department has for annual investment in (i) cycling and (ii) walking after April 2016.
tabling member constituency	Cambridge
tabling member printed	Daniel Zeichner
uin	9058
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/09/2015 answer text <p>In the five years 2011/12 to 2015/16, the Department for Transport (DfT) has increased its spend on cycling in England from £1 per head to £3 per head. Local authorities also spend significant amounts on cycling and so over the same period, total spend on cycling in England has increased from around the £2 per head inherited from the previous Labour administration to £6 per head. Spend per head is over £10 per head in the eight Cycle Ambition Cities and London.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td rowspan="2"><strong><strong></strong></strong><p>Cycling</p><strong></strong><p><strong>Programmes</strong></p></td><td colspan="5"><p><strong>Average spend in each year of programme (£m)</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2011/12</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2012/13</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2013/14</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2014/15</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2015/16</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>DfT spend per head</p></td><td><p>£1</p></td><td><p>£2</p></td><td><p>£2</p></td><td><p>£2</p></td><td><p>£3</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Total spend per head</p></td><td><p>£2</p></td><td><p>£4</p></td><td><p>£5</p></td><td><p>£5</p></td><td><p>£6</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p /> <p> </p><p /> <p> </p><p /> <p> </p><p /> <p> </p><p /> <p> </p><p /> <p>All the figures above are to the nearest pound</p><p /> <p> </p><p /> <p> </p><p /> <p> </p><p /> <p>The DfT has invested in walking programmes through the Local Sustainable Transport Fund, with spend of around 40p per head in each year from 2011-12 to 2014-15. No figure is available for 2015-16.</p><p /> <p> </p><p /> <p> </p><p /> <p> </p><p /> <p>For investment plans beyond April 2016, the Department must act upon the Secretary of State’s duty to set a Cycling and Walking Investment Strategy, with objectives.</p><p /> <p> </p><p /> <p> </p><p /> <p> </p><p /> <p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Scarborough and Whitby answering member printed Mr Robert Goodwill question first answered 09/09/2015 14:15:42 answering member 1562 label Biography information for Sir Robert Goodwill
tabling member	4382 label Biography information for Daniel Zeichner

416448

registered interest
date	04/09/2015
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Manchester Airport: Accidents
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many of the recommendations of the Air Accidents Investigation Branch in its report on the accident to Boeing 737-236 series 1, G-BGJC at Manchester International Airport on 22 August 1985 have been implemented.
tabling member constituency	Cheadle
tabling member printed	Mary Robinson
uin	8947
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/09/2015 answer text <p>Of the 31 recommendations, 28 have been implemented and another has been partially implemented.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Scarborough and Whitby answering member printed Mr Robert Goodwill question first answered 09/09/2015 13:49:40 answering member 1562 label Biography information for Sir Robert Goodwill
tabling member	4406 label Biography information for Mary Robinson

416480

registered interest
date	04/09/2015
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Level Crossings: Lincoln
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what recent discussions he has had with (a) the Office of Rail and Road and (b) Network Rail on the delays to Brayford Wharf East Level Crossing in Lincoln.
tabling member constituency	Lincoln
tabling member printed	Karl McCartney
uin	8765
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/09/2015 answer text <p>The Secretary of State has held no recent discussions with the Office of Rail and Road and Network Rail on the delays to the construction of a pedestrian footbridge over Brayford Wharf East Level Crossing.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 09/09/2015 14:56:25 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
tabling member	4028 label Biography information for Karl McCartney

416481

registered interest
date	04/09/2015
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Office of Rail and Road
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what recent discussions he has had with (a) his Department's Rail Executive, (b) Network Rail and (c) other bodies on the future of the Office of Road and Rail.
tabling member constituency	Lincoln
tabling member printed	Karl McCartney
uin	8766
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/09/2015 answer text <p>My Right Honourable Friend the Secretary of State has regular discussions with the Department’s Rail Executive, Network Rail and other bodies including the Office of Rail and Road (ORR) about a wide range of current and future matters relating to the railway. In June the Secretary of State announced that he had commissioned Dame Colette Bowe, one of the Department for Transport’s non-executive directors, to conduct a review to examine the processes followed in planning for Network Rail’s Control Period 5 enhancements programme and to make recommendations, to be published in the autumn, for better planning in the future.　　Determining the efficient cost and delivery of Network Rail’s investment programme is a key role of the ORR and if there are lessons to be learned by the ORR the Government expects them to be acted on.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 09/09/2015 15:01:57 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
tabling member	4028 label Biography information for Karl McCartney

416482

registered interest
date	04/09/2015
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Office of Rail and Road
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many (a) current and (b) former (i) employees and (ii) board members of the Office of Road and Rail receive concessionary rail travel.
tabling member constituency	Lincoln
tabling member printed	Karl McCartney
uin	8767
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/09/2015 answer text <p>The Office of Road and Rail (ORR) does not provide free or concessionary rail travel to its employees, board members or their families. Consequently, ORR has not incurred any cost for such arrangements in any of the last five years.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Six current ORR employees, as a result of their previous employment in the railway industry, are eligible for concessionary travel under the Rail Staff Travel Limited scheme, operated by the Association of Train Operating Companies. ORR administers the salary deductions on behalf of those employees but does not otherwise subsidise the arrangements.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The remuneration, including other benefits, paid to ORR directors and board members is detailed and published in ORR’s annual reports which are laid before Parliament each year. A link to the most recent annual report can be found at:</p><p><a href="http://orr.gov.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0019/18154/annual-report-2014-15-web.pdf" target="_blank">http://orr.gov.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0019/18154/annual-report-2014-15-web.pdf</a></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry grouped question UIN 8768 8991 question first answered 09/09/2015 14:34:41 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
tabling member	4028 label Biography information for Karl McCartney

416483

registered interest
date	04/09/2015
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Office of Rail and Road
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 cost to the Office of Road and Rail of providing (a) free and concessionary rail travel and (b) other benefits to current and former employees and their families in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Lincoln
tabling member printed	Karl McCartney
uin	8768
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/09/2015 answer text <p>The Office of Road and Rail (ORR) does not provide free or concessionary rail travel to its employees, board members or their families. Consequently, ORR has not incurred any cost for such arrangements in any of the last five years.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Six current ORR employees, as a result of their previous employment in the railway industry, are eligible for concessionary travel under the Rail Staff Travel Limited scheme, operated by the Association of Train Operating Companies. ORR administers the salary deductions on behalf of those employees but does not otherwise subsidise the arrangements.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The remuneration, including other benefits, paid to ORR directors and board members is detailed and published in ORR’s annual reports which are laid before Parliament each year. A link to the most recent annual report can be found at:</p><p><a href="http://orr.gov.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0019/18154/annual-report-2014-15-web.pdf" target="_blank">http://orr.gov.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0019/18154/annual-report-2014-15-web.pdf</a></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry grouped question UIN 8767 8991 question first answered 09/09/2015 14:34:41 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
tabling member	4028 label Biography information for Karl McCartney