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1142705

registered interest
date	02/09/2019
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Taxis: Licensing
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, when he plans to bring forward legislative proposals to set National Minimum Standards for taxi and private hire vehicle licensing including a requirement for all taxi and private hire vehicle drivers to undertake disability equality training.
tabling member constituency	Bristol North West
tabling member printed	Darren Jones
uin	284213
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/09/2019 answer text <p>Disability awareness and equality training can provide taxi and private hire vehicle (PHV) drivers with the skills, knowledge and confidence to give disabled passengers the assistance they need. I encourage all licensing authorities to use their existing powers to require drivers to undertaken this in advance of its inclusion in national minimum standards in licensing.</p><p> </p><p>As stated in the Government response to the report by the Chair of the Task and Finish Group on Taxi and Private Hire Vehicle Licensing, we will bring forward legislation when Parliamentary time allows.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Wealden answering member printed Ms Nusrat Ghani question first answered 09/09/2019 15:07:04 answering member 4460 label Biography information for Ms Nusrat Ghani
tabling member	4621 label Biography information for Darren Jones

1142755

registered interest
date	02/09/2019
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Bus Services: Disability
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, when he plans to publish the best practice guidance on disability awareness training for bus drivers.
tabling member constituency	Bridgend
tabling member printed	Mrs Madeleine Moon
uin	284341
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/09/2019 answer text <p>The Government remains committed to publishing best practice guidance on the provision of high quality disability awareness training for bus and coach drivers, to support operators to ensure that every driver has the knowledge and skills to assist disabled passengers.</p><p> </p><p>We will publish the guidance later in the year and will work with the bus and coach industry to encourage its adoption.</p> answering member constituency Wealden answering member printed Ms Nusrat Ghani question first answered 09/09/2019 12:13:28 answering member 4460 label Biography information for Ms Nusrat Ghani
tabling member	1490 label Biography information for Mrs Madeleine Moon

1142798

registered interest
date	02/09/2019
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Railways: Innovation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps the Government is taking to encourage the growth of new rail technologies, including hydrogen-powered trains.
tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
tabling member printed	Frank Field
uin	284451
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/09/2019 answer text <p>The Department for Transport provides total funding of £70.6m per year which is dedicated to research, development and innovation in the rail industry, as well as additional investment in targeted major modernisation projects such as smart ticketing and digital signalling. Funding for general research and innovation includes projects to support the development of hydrogen-powered trains, with projects researching how they will be approved for entering service, as well as enabling the first mainline testing of a hydrogen train.</p><p> </p><p>The Department for Business, Energy &amp; Industrial Strategy (BEIS) funds, with industry, a network of university-based centres of excellence for rail research and innovation, as well as committing £11m to a dedicated centre at the University of Leeds. BEIS also offers Industrial Strategy challenge funds for which the rail industry can bid; and has recently announced £40m to explore how the use of hydrogen can be rolled out across the UK, and £100m to enable greater supply of low carbon hydrogen for use across the economy. These funding opportunities will be important to enable hydrogen-powered trains to run on the network in the future.</p> answering member constituency Daventry answering member printed Chris Heaton-Harris question first answered 09/09/2019 13:22:04 answering member 3977 label Biography information for Chris Heaton-Harris
tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead

1142799

registered interest
date	02/09/2019
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Railways: North West
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps the Government is taking to promote innovation in the North West rail cluster.
tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
tabling member printed	Frank Field
uin	284188
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/09/2019 answer text <p>The DfT is committed to promoting innovation through its rail franchise programme and is trialling a three-year pilot fund within the TransPennine Express (TPE) and the Arriva Rail North (Northern) franchises. This is aimed at supporting the development of innovations, focussing on decarbonisation, passenger improvements and capacity and must benefit wider railway and society.</p> answering member constituency Daventry answering member printed Chris Heaton-Harris question first answered 09/09/2019 12:25:29 answering member 3977 label Biography information for Chris Heaton-Harris
tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead

1142804

registered interest
date	02/09/2019
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Railways: Dronfield
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what estimate his Department has made of the number of journeys made from Dronfield train station to Manchester Oxford Road train station in the 2017-18 financial year.
tabling member constituency	North East Derbyshire
tabling member printed	Lee Rowley
uin	284192
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/09/2019 answer text <p>Passenger demand flows between specific stations and on specific routes are not publicly available as this data is commercially sensitive. However, the Office of Rail and Road (ORR) publish data on the estimates of the total number of passengers entering and exiting each station in Great Britain.</p><p> </p><p><strong>Total number of station entries and exits, 2017-18 financial year</strong></p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Station name</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Entries and exits</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Dronfield</p></td><td><p>202,622</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Manchester Oxford Road</p></td><td><p>8,558,308</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Liverpool Lime Street</p></td><td><p>16,032,460</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Manchester Piccadilly</p></td><td><p>27,724,962</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>Additional years are available at the following link:</p><p><a href="https://dataportal.orr.gov.uk/statistics/usage/estimates-of-station-usage/" target="_blank">https://dataportal.orr.gov.uk/statistics/usage/estimates-of-station-usage/</a></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Daventry answering member printed Chris Heaton-Harris grouped question UIN 284194 284902 question first answered 09/09/2019 12:09:59 answering member 3977 label Biography information for Chris Heaton-Harris
tabling member	4652 label Biography information for Lee Rowley

1142805

registered interest
date	02/09/2019
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Railways: Dronfield
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what estimate his Department has made of the number of journeys made from Dronfield train station to Liverpool Lime Street train station in the 2017-18 financial year.
tabling member constituency	North East Derbyshire
tabling member printed	Lee Rowley
uin	284194
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/09/2019 answer text <p>Passenger demand flows between specific stations and on specific routes are not publicly available as this data is commercially sensitive. However, the Office of Rail and Road (ORR) publish data on the estimates of the total number of passengers entering and exiting each station in Great Britain.</p><p> </p><p><strong>Total number of station entries and exits, 2017-18 financial year</strong></p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Station name</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Entries and exits</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Dronfield</p></td><td><p>202,622</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Manchester Oxford Road</p></td><td><p>8,558,308</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Liverpool Lime Street</p></td><td><p>16,032,460</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Manchester Piccadilly</p></td><td><p>27,724,962</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>Additional years are available at the following link:</p><p><a href="https://dataportal.orr.gov.uk/statistics/usage/estimates-of-station-usage/" target="_blank">https://dataportal.orr.gov.uk/statistics/usage/estimates-of-station-usage/</a></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Daventry answering member printed Chris Heaton-Harris grouped question UIN 284192 284902 question first answered 09/09/2019 12:09:59 answering member 3977 label Biography information for Chris Heaton-Harris
tabling member	4652 label Biography information for Lee Rowley

1142811

registered interest
date	02/09/2019
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Portsmouth International Port
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what the reimbursement mechanism is for the recovery of costs incurred at Portsmouth International Port from preparations for the UK leaving the EU without a deal.
tabling member constituency	Portsmouth South
tabling member printed	Stephen Morgan
uin	284244
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/09/2019 answer text <p>On 30 August, as part of a £30m investment package for ports, the Department for Transport (DfT) announced a targeted £5m fund for Local Resilience Forums (LRF) for traffic management improvements on roads around key maritime ports outside Kent. Hampshire and the Isle of Wight Local Resilience Forum, which includes Portsmouth City Council, is eligible for up to £1.25m from this fund in recognition of the high volume of accompanied freight traffic between Portsmouth International Port and EU ports. The LRF funding could be used for reimbursement of the council’s capital works on local roads, provided that it can demonstrate that the works were undertaken to directly mitigate the potential traffic impacts of a no-deal Brexit.</p><p> </p><p>This funding from DfT is in addition to funding for councils and LRFs provided by MHCLG to support their development of robust Brexit plans and continued preparedness activities.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Daventry answering member printed Chris Heaton-Harris question first answered 09/09/2019 12:36:36 answering member 3977 label Biography information for Chris Heaton-Harris
tabling member	4653 label Biography information for Stephen Morgan

1142848

registered interest
date	02/09/2019
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Department for Transport: Travel
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how much his Department spent on ministerial travel by (a) first class, (b) second class and (c) in total in 2017.
tabling member constituency	Newport West
tabling member printed	Ruth Jones
uin	284285
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/09/2019 answer text <p>Travel Costs are recorded separately for each Minister's office but include travel by officials as well as for the Ministers. To obtain the information in the format requested would be at disproportionate cost as it would require multiple searches of various systems based on the method of travel, how the travel was booked, and which official booked it.</p> answering member constituency Daventry answering member printed Chris Heaton-Harris question first answered 09/09/2019 12:43:59 answering member 3977 label Biography information for Chris Heaton-Harris
tabling member	4716 label Biography information for Ruth Jones

1142880

registered interest
date	02/09/2019
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Railways: Greater London
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether the Government plans to support the transfer of the Great Northern Rail Line from Govia Thameslink to Transport for London.
tabling member constituency	Hornsey and Wood Green
tabling member printed	Catherine West
uin	284399
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/09/2019 answer text <p>A decision on the transfer of these services will be dependent on a successful business case being made and will also have to be aligned with the Department’s plan for the future of TSGN. This plan will have to take into account the recommendations of the Williams Rail Review, which reports in the autumn.</p> answering member constituency Daventry answering member printed Chris Heaton-Harris question first answered 09/09/2019 12:21:09 answering member 3977 label Biography information for Chris Heaton-Harris
tabling member	4523 label Biography information for Catherine West

1142910

registered interest
date	02/09/2019
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Taxis: Training
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what progress has been made on delivering disability and equality training to taxi and minicab drivers.
tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
uin	284334
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/09/2019 answer text <p>Disability awareness and equality training can provide taxi and private hire vehicle (PHV) drivers with the skills, knowledge and confidence to give disabled passengers the assistance they need. I encourage all licensing authorities to use their existing powers to require drivers to undertake it in advance of its inclusion in national minimum standards.</p><p> </p><p>As stated in the Government response to the report by the Chair of the Task and Finish Group on Taxi and Private Hire Vehicle Licensing, we will bring forward legislation when Parliamentary time allows.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Wealden answering member printed Ms Nusrat Ghani question first answered 09/09/2019 12:16:53 answering member 4460 label Biography information for Ms Nusrat Ghani
tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis