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522848

registered interest
date	06/06/2016
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	West Coast Main Line
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many train paths an hour will be freed up on the West Coast Main Line when HS2 Phase 1 is operational according to Network Rail's West Coast Main Line Capacity Plus study, and when that study will be published.
tabling member printed	Lord Berkeley
uin	HL399
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/06/2016 answer text <p>HS2 Phase 1 will add significant additional capacity to the London to West Midlands rail corridor, and this provides an opportunity for the industry to evaluate how best to make use of the released capacity on the southern section of the West Coast Main Line. Network Rail continues to develop the evidence base to support the Capacity Plus study. Train operating companies and freight operating companies, passenger transport executives and local authorities and High Speed 2 Ltd are supporting Network Rail in its ongoing work. Network Rail will use this work to inform the Initial Industry Advice for Control Period 6 which is expected to be published by the end of 2016.</p> answering member printed Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon question first answered 17/06/2016 10:32:09 answering member 4210 label Biography information for Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon
tabling member	3526 label Biography information for Lord Berkeley

522850

registered interest
date	06/06/2016
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	High Speed 2 Line
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what were the total cost of fees, facilitation costs and enabling works for HS2 in each year since 2010.
tabling member printed	Lord Berkeley
uin	HL401
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/06/2016 answer text <p>The table below sets out the spend on HS2 in each year since 2009/10. Data for 2015/16 is currently provisional and so is not included.</p><p><em> </em></p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong><em> </em></strong></p></td><td><p><strong><em>2009/10<br> £m</em></strong></p></td><td><p><strong><em>2010/11<br> £m</em></strong></p></td><td><p><strong><em>2011/12<br> £m</em></strong></p></td><td><p><strong><em>2012/13<br> £m</em></strong></p></td><td><p><strong><em>2013/14<br> £m</em></strong></p></td><td><p><strong><em>2014/15<br> £m</em></strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Total HS2</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>9.43</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>24.3</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>54</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>207.6</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>318.2</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>362.7</strong></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p><em> </em></p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon question first answered 20/06/2016 12:19:32 answering member 4210 label Biography information for Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon
tabling member	3526 label Biography information for Lord Berkeley

522851

registered interest
date	06/06/2016
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	East Coast Main Line
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what estimate they have made of the financial impact that the decision by the Office of Road and Rail to allow competition on the East Coast Main Line will have on the existing Virgin Trains East Coast franchise.
tabling member printed	Lord Bradshaw
uin	HL402
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/06/2016 answer text <p>The Government is currently working to establish a robust estimate of the financial impact, taking full account of the specific details of the Office of Rail and Road's decision. At this stage, that process is incomplete.</p> answering member printed Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon question first answered 17/06/2016 10:29:11 answering member 4210 label Biography information for Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon
tabling member	2483 label Biography information for Lord Bradshaw

522852

registered interest
date	06/06/2016
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	East Coast Main Line
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of the impact that the decision by the Office of Road and Rail (ORR) to allow competition on the East Coast Main Line will have on the reliability and timekeeping of the existing East Coast Main Line franchise and other operators using the railway; and what assessment they have made of the impact the proposed improvements to the infrastructure being made by Network Rail in Control Periods 5 and 6 and the ORR decision on competition will have on the existing standard of performance.
tabling member printed	Lord Bradshaw
uin	HL403
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/06/2016 answer text <p>The Department for Transport has not itself undertaken an analysis of the effects of the ORR’s decisions on access to the East Coast Main Line on the reliability and performance of services on the route. In correspondence to the ORR ahead of its decision, the Department expressed concern about the potential adverse performance impacts of allowing additional open access operation on the route.</p><p> </p><p>The potential additional capacity which would be provided by the enhancements to the route currently being planned by Network Rail over Control Periods 5 and 6 has been taken into account by the ORR in its decisions on access.</p><p> </p><p>We now look to Network Rail and the relevant train operators to work together through the normal industry processes, under the oversight of the ORR, to ensure that the resulting pattern of services operates as effectively as possible for passengers and freight users of the line, and to ensure that any negative impacts on performance are minimised.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon question first answered 10/06/2016 11:07:25 answering member 4210 label Biography information for Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon
tabling member	2483 label Biography information for Lord Bradshaw

522853

registered interest
date	06/06/2016
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	East Coast Main Line
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of whether the new open access operators using the East Coast Main Line will pay access charges that provide for fair competition with other operators, including VTEC; who determines those charges; and whether those charges reflect the opportunity costs that arise from using trains offering less seating capacity than the principal franchisee’s trains.
tabling member printed	Lord Bradshaw
uin	HL404
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/06/2016 answer text <p>Setting the framework for track access charges is the responsibility of the independent regulator, the Office of Rail and Road (the ORR). The ORR will set the charging framework for all operators as part of the regulatory process leading up to the next control period (April 2019-2024). As part of that process, the Government has clearly indicated that it supports fairer charges for open access operators and has set out its desire to see changes to those charges as soon as possible.</p><p> </p><p>Track access charges are not set on the basis of opportunity costs.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon question first answered 10/06/2016 11:06:45 answering member 4210 label Biography information for Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon
tabling member	2483 label Biography information for Lord Bradshaw

522854

registered interest
date	06/06/2016
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Buildings: Safety
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government how long it has been since the Operational Research Computerised Allocation of Tickets to Services arrangements under which revenue is shared between operators were last updated; who is responsible for updating those arrangements; and whether that process is open to public scrutiny.
tabling member printed	Lord Bradshaw
uin	HL405
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/06/2016 answer text <p>The Department for Transport does not hold information on when Operational Research Computerised Allocation of Tickets to Services (ORCATS) was last updated. Any changes to ORCATS allocations is a matter for the Association of Train Operating Companies (ATOC). However we understand from ATOC that as the way in which ORCATS currently works is built into the planning assumptions made by franchise bidders, there is no intention to change the actual way in which ORCATS works. The increase in future ticketing, such as smartcards and barcodes, will in time lead to actual usage based allocations being used, but for now the ORCATS model remains the industry method of allocation.</p><p> </p><p>Further information can be obtained from ATOC who can be contacted at:</p><p> </p><p>ATOC Ltd</p><p>2nd Floor</p><p>200 Aldersgate Street</p><p>London<br>EC1A 4HD</p><p><a href="mailto:enquiry@atoc.org" target="_blank">enquiry@atoc.org</a></p> answering member printed Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon question first answered 10/06/2016 11:05:10 answering member 4210 label Biography information for Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon
tabling member	2483 label Biography information for Lord Bradshaw

522855

registered interest
date	06/06/2016
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Department for Communities and Local Government: Regulation
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether they are aware of any studies regarding the "not primarily abstractive" test that the Office of Road and Rail makes in respect of open access applications to test its validity.
tabling member printed	Lord Bradshaw
uin	HL406
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/06/2016 answer text <p>Her Majesty’s Government is not aware of any recent studies which specifically test the validity of the Office of Rail and Road’s not primarily abstractive test. However, it has made representations to the ORR on its appropriateness for use on individual open access applications, most particularly in relation to the recent open access applications on the East Coast Mainline.</p> answering member printed Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon question first answered 20/06/2016 12:19:02 answering member 4210 label Biography information for Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon
tabling member	2483 label Biography information for Lord Bradshaw

522856

registered interest
date	06/06/2016
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	East Coast Main Line
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether they are aware of any assessment of the impact on operational resilience by an experienced and professional railway operator of the decision by the Office of Road and Rail to allow further open access operators onto the East Coast Main Line.
tabling member printed	Lord Bradshaw
uin	HL407
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/06/2016 answer text <p>The Department for Transport is not aware of any assessment of operational resilience in connection with the decision to extend open access operations on the East Coast Main Line. We expect Network Rail as network operator to ensure that their routes are able to operate effectively, whichever train operators are running on them.</p> answering member printed Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon question first answered 10/06/2016 11:06:15 answering member 4210 label Biography information for Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon
tabling member	2483 label Biography information for Lord Bradshaw

522924

registered interest
date	06/06/2016
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Crimes of Violence: Acids
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether they have plans to make third party insurance compulsory for all cyclists who are making deliveries for Deliveroo and other commercial bicycle delivery companies.
tabling member printed	Lord Blencathra
uin	HL475
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/06/2016 answer text <p>We have no plans to make insurance compulsory for cyclists. We encourage all cyclists to take out some form of insurance. In fact, many cyclists do through membership of cycling organisations, such as Cycling UK.</p><p> </p><p>Bicycle couriers who work for Deliveroo are self-employed and therefore are still personally liable and responsible for choosing whether or not to have insurance and for ensuring that the insurance is appropriate for them.</p> answering member printed Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon question first answered 17/06/2016 10:30:24 answering member 4210 label Biography information for Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon
tabling member	497 label Biography information for Lord Blencathra

522241

registered interest
date	26/05/2016
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Govia Thameslink Railway
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment his Department has made of whether the most recent Public Performance Measure figures reported by Govia Thameslink Railway put that company in breach of its franchise agreement.
tabling member constituency	Middlesbrough
tabling member printed	Andy McDonald
uin	38759
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/06/2016 answer text <p>The Public Performance Measure figure does not put Govia Thameslink Railway in breach of their Franchise Agreement.</p><p> </p><p>The Franchise Agreement does not include the Public Performance Measure as one of the benchmarks against which their performance is measured. The Department for Transport (DfT) performance benchmarks for Govia Thameslink Railway are for Delay minutes and Cancellations for which GTR are responsible, and Peak Short formation, as specified under Schedule 7.1 of the Franchise Agreement:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/525766/tsgn-franchise-agreement.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/525766/tsgn-franchise-agreement.pdf</a></p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 06/06/2016 15:44:58 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
tabling member	4269 label Biography information for Andy McDonald