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1524012

registered interest
date	19/10/2022
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Large Goods Vehicles: Driving Licences
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what help is available to those who have (a) no money or (b) are unemployed to get a HGV Licence.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	67021
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/10/2022 answer text <p>The Government has invested up to £34 million in skills bootcamps to train up to 11,000 more people to become HGV drivers. These are free, short, intensive courses to train new drivers to gain an HGV licence. In addition, the Large Goods Vehicle Driver apprenticeship standard to train articulated HGV drivers, which is supported with up to £7,000 of funding, and the Urban Driver apprenticeship to train rigid HGV drivers with up to £5,000 of funding are available for businesses.</p><p>Support for education and training outside England is a matter for the devolved administrations.</p><p>The Department for Work and Pensions and Jobcentre Plus in England, Scotland and Wales are also supporting jobseekers become HGV drivers where appropriate. Some Jobcentre regions have created Sector-based Work Academy Programmes where the local job market requires more HGV drivers.</p><p>Employment support is a devolved matter for the Northern Ireland Executive.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 25/10/2022 10:02:53 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

1524318

registered interest
date	19/10/2022
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Large Goods Vehicles: Accidents
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many road traffic collisions foreign HGV drivers have been involved in the last 10 years on UK roads.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle-under-Lyme
tabling member printed	Aaron Bell
uin	67258
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/10/2022 answer text <p>The information requested is not available as the Department’s reported road collisions statistics are not broken down by nationality of driver.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 25/10/2022 09:59:33 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
tabling member	4837 label Biography information for Aaron Bell

1524319

registered interest
date	19/10/2022
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Large Goods Vehicles: Registration
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what recent assessment her Department has made of the adequacy of arrangements with the Netherlands for sharing foreign HGV registration details.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle-under-Lyme
tabling member printed	Aaron Bell
uin	67259
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/10/2022 answer text <p>The Netherlands, like other EU Member States, can request HGV registration details under Mutual Legal Assistance provisions. However, the Trade and Cooperation Agreement suspends timescales for responding to Mutual Legal Assistance requests for vehicle registration data in respect of the enforcement of minor traffic offences until 1 January 2024. Requests are dealt with on a case-by-case basis.</p><p>We are reviewing our approach to the provision of data once timescales apply.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 25/10/2022 12:17:38 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
tabling member	4837 label Biography information for Aaron Bell

1523535

registered interest
date	18/10/2022
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Cars: Noise
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps her Department is taking to tackle cars which do not comply with noise suppression laws.
tabling member constituency	Romford
tabling member printed	Andrew Rosindell
uin	65649
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/10/2022 answer text <p>The police and local authorities have existing powers to tackle excessively noisy and illegally modified vehicles.</p><p>To support enforcement efforts, the Department has commenced roadside trials of the latest ‘noise camera’ technology to understand if it can be an effective tool for the police and local authorities that will enable more targeted and efficient enforcement. If the trials prove to be successful, noise cameras may be considered for wider rollout.</p> answering member constituency South Ribble answering member printed Katherine Fletcher question first answered 24/10/2022 10:58:40 answering member 4834 label Biography information for Katherine Fletcher
tabling member	1447 label Biography information for Andrew Rosindell

1523561

registered interest
date	18/10/2022
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	High Speed 2 Railway Line
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will publish the Treasury internal review into HS2 reported in the Financial Times on 17 October 2022.
tabling member constituency	Carmarthen East and Dinefwr
tabling member printed	Jonathan Edwards
uin	65695
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/10/2022 answer text <p>We will not comment on the detail of leaked reports or on commercially sensitive matters. HS2 is well underway delivering vital infrastructure investment to contribute to Britain’s economic growth with 27,000 people working on it already.</p><p> </p><p>We do not intend to publish the review as this was internal advice to the Minister for HS2. We report on the programme's status to Parliament every six months and Ministers will provide their next update to Parliament shortly.</p><p><em> </em></p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster question first answered 21/10/2022 10:02:28 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
tabling member	3943 label Biography information for Jonathan Edwards

1523562

registered interest
date	18/10/2022
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Motorways: North West
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment her Department has made of the effectiveness of smart motorways in the North West of England.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Wavertree
tabling member printed	Paula Barker
uin	66052
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/10/2022 answer text <p>We have paused the rollout of new smart motorways to collect more safety and economic data to make informed decisions on next steps. We will also consider alternative options for enhancing capacity on the Strategic Road Network. The latest evaluation of safety is found in <em>Smart motorways stocktake - Second year progress report 2022</em>, https://nationalhighways.co.uk/our-work/smart-motorways-evidence-stocktake/. National Highways publishes Post Opening Project Evaluations for all individual smart motorway schemes when one-year data and five-year data is available. These are published at https://nationalhighways.co.uk/our-roads/post-opening-project-evaluation-pope-of-major-schemes/.</p> answering member constituency South Ribble answering member printed Katherine Fletcher grouped question UIN 66053 66054 66055 question first answered 25/10/2022 12:14:19 answering member 4834 label Biography information for Katherine Fletcher
tabling member	4828 label Biography information for Paula Barker

1523566

registered interest
date	18/10/2022
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Motorways: North West
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of the removal of hard shoulders on new smart motorways in the North West of England.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Wavertree
tabling member printed	Paula Barker
uin	66053
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/10/2022 answer text <p>We have paused the rollout of new smart motorways to collect more safety and economic data to make informed decisions on next steps. We will also consider alternative options for enhancing capacity on the Strategic Road Network. The latest evaluation of safety is found in <em>Smart motorways stocktake - Second year progress report 2022</em>, https://nationalhighways.co.uk/our-work/smart-motorways-evidence-stocktake/. National Highways publishes Post Opening Project Evaluations for all individual smart motorway schemes when one-year data and five-year data is available. These are published at https://nationalhighways.co.uk/our-roads/post-opening-project-evaluation-pope-of-major-schemes/.</p> answering member constituency South Ribble answering member printed Katherine Fletcher grouped question UIN 66052 66054 66055 question first answered 25/10/2022 12:14:19 answering member 4834 label Biography information for Katherine Fletcher
tabling member	4828 label Biography information for Paula Barker

1523584

registered interest
date	18/10/2022
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Motorways: Cost Effectiveness
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment her Department has made on the viability of new smart motorways; and what assessment she has made of the value for money of those motorways given that they do not have a hard shoulder.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Wavertree
tabling member printed	Paula Barker
uin	66054
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/10/2022 answer text <p>We have paused the rollout of new smart motorways to collect more safety and economic data to make informed decisions on next steps. We will also consider alternative options for enhancing capacity on the Strategic Road Network. The latest evaluation of safety is found in <em>Smart motorways stocktake - Second year progress report 2022</em>, https://nationalhighways.co.uk/our-work/smart-motorways-evidence-stocktake/. National Highways publishes Post Opening Project Evaluations for all individual smart motorway schemes when one-year data and five-year data is available. These are published at https://nationalhighways.co.uk/our-roads/post-opening-project-evaluation-pope-of-major-schemes/.</p> answering member constituency South Ribble answering member printed Katherine Fletcher grouped question UIN 66052 66053 66055 question first answered 25/10/2022 12:14:19 answering member 4834 label Biography information for Katherine Fletcher
tabling member	4828 label Biography information for Paula Barker

1523585

registered interest
date	18/10/2022
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Motorways: Standards
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if she will make a comparative assessment of the effectiveness of smart motorways where the hard shoulder (a) remains and (b) has been removed.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Wavertree
tabling member printed	Paula Barker
uin	66055
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/10/2022 answer text <p>We have paused the rollout of new smart motorways to collect more safety and economic data to make informed decisions on next steps. We will also consider alternative options for enhancing capacity on the Strategic Road Network. The latest evaluation of safety is found in <em>Smart motorways stocktake - Second year progress report 2022</em>, https://nationalhighways.co.uk/our-work/smart-motorways-evidence-stocktake/. National Highways publishes Post Opening Project Evaluations for all individual smart motorway schemes when one-year data and five-year data is available. These are published at https://nationalhighways.co.uk/our-roads/post-opening-project-evaluation-pope-of-major-schemes/.</p> answering member constituency South Ribble answering member printed Katherine Fletcher grouped question UIN 66052 66053 66054 question first answered 25/10/2022 12:14:19 answering member 4834 label Biography information for Katherine Fletcher
tabling member	4828 label Biography information for Paula Barker

1523654

registered interest
date	18/10/2022
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	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, further to the Answer of the 24 August to Question 45915 with reference to Schedule 6.2, Clause 10.6 West Coast Rail Franchise Agreement, whether a figure was agreed on train driver recruitment and training plans with the Department.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Heeley
tabling member printed	Louise Haigh
uin	65872
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/10/2022 answer text <p>Train driver recruitment and training plans were agreed in June 2020. These plans were significantly delayed for the duration of the COVID pandemic, as were recruitment and training across all operators.</p><p>Just under 100 additional drivers will enter formal service between April and December this year. Avanti is therefore planning a significant increase in services in December.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster question first answered 21/10/2022 09:41:14 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
tabling member	4473 label Biography information for Louise Haigh