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971650

registered interest
date	11/09/2018
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Motorway Service Areas: Public Lavatories
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 to increase the number of changing places toilets in service stations.
tabling member constituency	Scunthorpe
tabling member printed	Nic Dakin
uin	173574
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/09/2018 answer text <p>The Inclusive Transport Strategy, published by the Department for Transport in July this year, announced £2milion to fund the construction of new Changing Places toilets at motorway service areas.</p><p> </p><p>A further announcement on how the funding will be allocated will be made shortly.</p> answering member constituency Wealden answering member printed Ms Nusrat Ghani question first answered 17/09/2018 13:46:23 answering member 4460 label Biography information for Ms Nusrat Ghani
tabling member	4056 label Biography information for Nic Dakin

971201

registered interest
date	10/09/2018
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Bus Services
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government how many people travelled by bus in (1) 2015, and (2) 2017, in (a) London, (b) the Metropolitan areas, and (3) the shire counties.
tabling member printed	Lord Bradshaw
uin	HL10202
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/09/2018 answer text <p>The table below shows the number of passenger journeys on local bus services for London, the Metropolitan areas and the shire counties (non-metropolitan areas) from 2014/15 to 2016/17.</p><p> </p><p><strong>Passenger journeys on local bus services by metropolitan area status and country (in millions)</strong></p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Year</p></td><td><p>London</p></td><td><p>English metropolitan areas</p></td><td><p>English non-metropolitan areas</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014/15</p></td><td><p>2,364</p></td><td><p>976</p></td><td><p>1,288</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015/16</p></td><td><p>2,293</p></td><td><p>949</p></td><td><p>1,266</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016/17</p></td><td><p>2,240</p></td><td><p>938</p></td><td><p>1,260</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Source: DfT Local bus passenger journeys (BUS0103)</p> answering member printed Baroness Sugg question first answered 17/09/2018 13:07:49 answering member 4584 label Biography information for Baroness Sugg
tabling member	2483 label Biography information for Lord Bradshaw

971202

registered interest
date	10/09/2018
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Bus Services: Finance
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government how the total financial support received by the bus industry from public funds has changed between 2015 and 2017.
tabling member printed	Lord Bradshaw
uin	HL10203
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/09/2018 answer text <p>Total net support (at current prices) by central and local government for local bus services in 2015/16 was £2.202 billion. The latest available statistics for 2016/17 show that this figure was £2.207 billion.</p><p> </p><p>This support consists of payments for supported services, Bus Service Operators Grant, and concessionary travel reimbursement.</p> answering member printed Baroness Sugg question first answered 17/09/2018 13:08:16 answering member 4584 label Biography information for Baroness Sugg
tabling member	2483 label Biography information for Lord Bradshaw

971308

registered interest
date	10/09/2018
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Unmanned Air Vehicles
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, when the Government plans to bring forward legislative proposals on drones.
tabling member constituency	Great Grimsby
tabling member printed	Melanie Onn
uin	172638
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/09/2018 answer text <p>In May this year, the Government amended the Air Navigation Order to restrict drones from flying above 400ft and within 1km of an airport boundary. These measures came into effect in July this year. The amendments also introduced the registration of all drone operators with drones of 250g and over, as well as competency tests for remote pilots of drones of 250g and over. These will come into effect in November 2019.</p><p> </p><p>The Government is currently consulting on measures to be included in a draft Drones Bill such as greater police powers against the misuse of drones and proposals for regulating and mandating the use of safety ‘apps’ and counter-drone technology. A draft Drones Bill is due to be published shortly.</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 13/09/2018 08:58:01 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	4464 label Biography information for Melanie Onn

971328

registered interest
date	10/09/2018
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Railways: Cumbria
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to his Department's news story of 28 June 2018, Rail passengers in the north to start being compensated in early July, what plans he has for compensation to be provided for passengers who are not season ticket holders affected by recent disruptions to train services in Cumbria.
tabling member constituency	Westmorland and Lonsdale
tabling member printed	Tim Farron
uin	172497
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/09/2018 answer text <p>All passengers are entitled to and encouraged to apply for Delay Repay compensation from their train operator. Both train operators, Northern and TransPennine Express will also be opening an additional compensation scheme to ensure that people who travelled regularly on the disrupted routes, but without a season ticket, will be eligible for compensation. This was announced at the end of July by Transport for the North, which is leading on the design of the scheme. Further details will be announced shortly by Transport for the North and the train operators.</p> answering member constituency Orpington answering member printed Joseph Johnson question first answered 14/09/2018 10:45:43 answering member 4039 label Biography information for Lord Johnson of Marylebone
tabling member	1591 label Biography information for Tim Farron

971329

registered interest
date	10/09/2018
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Bus Services: Cumbria
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many operational bus services have been running in Cumbria in each of the last 20 years.
tabling member constituency	Westmorland and Lonsdale
tabling member printed	Tim Farron
uin	172498
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/09/2018 answer text <p>Bus operators must register their services with a traffic commissioner in the traffic area in which the service operates. The traffic commissioner operates a live system. The number of bus services at a local authority level is only provided for the current point in time. However, data is held for previous years at a regional level.</p><p> </p><p>Whilst the data is not held to the level and time period requested, the table below shows the number of live local bus registrations in the North Western Traffic Area as at 31 March of each year.</p><p> </p><p><strong>Live local bus service registrations in the North Western Traffic Area, as at 31 March, 2008 to 2018</strong></p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Year</p></td><td><p>Live local bus registrations</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2008</p></td><td><p>4,241</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2009</p></td><td><p>4,268</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010</p></td><td><p>4,159</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011</p></td><td><p>4,256</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012</p></td><td><p>4,144</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013</p></td><td><p>3,926</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014</p></td><td><p>3,404</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015</p></td><td><p>3,490</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016</p></td><td><p>3,274</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017</p></td><td><p>3,544</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2018</p></td><td><p>3,353</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p><em>Source: Traffic Commissioners' annual reports</em></p><p> </p><p>Local authorities are best placed to manage changes in their local bus network. The Bus Services Act 2017 gives them additional powers to do so through partnership working with commercial operators. It also gives Mayoral Combined authorities the automatic right to franchise their bus network and the Department for Transport can also grant these powers to other local authorities who make a satisfactory business case. The Department is also developing regulations to require bus operators and local transport authorities to provide data, in open formats, about local bus services including routes and timetable data; fares and ticket data; and real time information. We are working closely with industry to develop the regulations and it is intended the requirements will be phased in over the next few years.</p> answering member constituency Wealden answering member printed Ms Nusrat Ghani question first answered 14/09/2018 11:22:19 answering member 4460 label Biography information for Ms Nusrat Ghani
tabling member	1591 label Biography information for Tim Farron

971344

registered interest
date	10/09/2018
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Biofuels
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what proportion of bio-ethanol fuel comes from sources in (a) the UK, (b) the EU and (c) the rest of the world.
tabling member constituency	Warley
tabling member printed	John Spellar
uin	172422
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/09/2018 answer text <p>The Department publishes regular statistics covering the volume of biofuel reported under the Renewable Transport Fuel Obligation. This data includes feedstock and country of origin at:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/biofuels-statistics" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/biofuels-statistics</a></p><p> </p><p>The latest full year’s verified data is in report 6 from obligation year 9 (2016/17). It shows that 1,541 million litres of renewable fuel was supplied, of which 49 per cent was bioethanol. This is a total of 758 million litres of bioethanol. Of this total amount, 218 million litres (29 percent) is produced from UK feedstocks, 429 million litres, (57 percent) is produced from feedstocks sourced from elsewhere in the EU, and 111 million litres (15 percent) is produced from feedstocks sourced from the rest of the world.</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 14/09/2018 10:42:45 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	318 label Biography information for John Spellar

971351

registered interest
date	10/09/2018
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Network Rail: Bridges
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what discussions his Department has had with Network Rail on the effect of Network Rail's policies on railway arches on small businesses that are tenants.
tabling member constituency	Warley
tabling member printed	John Spellar
uin	172423
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/09/2018 answer text <p>The Department has had regular discussions with Network Rail about its commercial estate.</p><p> </p><p>On 10 September, Network Rail announced that it had agreed a £1.46bn sale with Telereal Trillium and Blackstone Property Partners for the sale of its commercial estate portfolio.</p><p> </p><p>Tenants’ existing rights have been safeguarded in this sale and current agreements between Network Rail and tenants will be fully honoured.</p><p> </p><p>The new owner has also agreed to a tenant charter including amongst other commitments to engage in an open and honest manner with their tenants and the community, ongoing transparency regarding publication of data on mix of tenants and the provision of an engagement officer. They have also undertaken to work with long-standing small business tenants that face financial pressure, including offering financial support.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Orpington answering member printed Joseph Johnson question first answered 17/09/2018 13:38:05 answering member 4039 label Biography information for Lord Johnson of Marylebone
tabling member	318 label Biography information for John Spellar

971385

registered interest
date	10/09/2018
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Railway Stations: Disability
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will make representations with Northern Rail on improving disabled access in train stations (a) in Blackburn and (b) across the North of England.
tabling member constituency	Blackburn
tabling member printed	Kate Hollern
uin	172543
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/09/2018 answer text <p>The Inclusive Transport Strategy, strategy published on 25 July 2018, included a commitment to extend our Access for All programme across rail Control Period 6 (2019 to 2024) with an additional £300m of funding from the public purse.</p><p> </p><p>We have asked the industry to nominate stations for the new funding by 16 November this year. Nominated stations will be selected based on their annual footfall, weighted by the incidence of disability in the area. We will take into account local factors such as proximity to a hospital or the availability of third party funding for the project. We will also ensure that there is a fair geographical spread of projects across the country.</p> answering member constituency Wealden answering member printed Ms Nusrat Ghani question first answered 13/09/2018 13:11:10 answering member 4460 label Biography information for Ms Nusrat Ghani
tabling member	4363 label Biography information for Kate Hollern

971391

registered interest
date	10/09/2018
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Northern: Rolling Stock
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether his Department has plans to improve the rolling stock operating on Northern railways.
tabling member constituency	Blackburn
tabling member printed	Kate Hollern
uin	172549
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/09/2018 answer text <p>The train operators, Northern and TransPennine Express, will deliver brand new trains, including more than 500 new carriages, room for 40,000 extra passengers and more than 2,000 extra services a week. By 2020 all the trains will be brand new or completely refurbished, and all the Pacer trains will be gone.</p> answering member constituency Orpington answering member printed Joseph Johnson question first answered 14/09/2018 11:26:17 answering member 4039 label Biography information for Lord Johnson of Marylebone
tabling member	4363 label Biography information for Kate Hollern