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90879

	registered interest
	date	05/09/2014
	answering body	Department for Transport
	answering dept id	27
	answering dept short name	Transport
	answering dept sort name	Transport
	hansard heading	Transport: Berkshire
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what recent steps he has taken to improve transport connections between Windsor and Reading.
	tabling member constituency	Windsor
	tabling member printed	Adam Afriyie
	uin	208388
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/09/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>On 27 March, the Government and Transport for London announced that Crossrail services will be extended to serve Reading from 2019. Once Crossrail services begin across the whole line in 2019, passengers travelling to London from Windsor, Reading and other Thames Valley stations will be able to travel to more destinations across London without the need to change at Paddington. Construction of Crossrail is now more than half completed and electrification of the Great Western Main Line is also under way. Electrification of the Slough to Windsor route is approved and will improve local connectivity.</p><p> </p><p>The transformation of Reading station was completed on time and under budget as part of the £850 million Reading Station Area Redevelopment programme and formally opened by Her Majesty The Queen on 17 July.</p><p> </p><p>The Government continues to progress the M4 Junction 3–12 smart motorway project, the next step for which is formal public consultation in the autumn. The Highways Agency is also taking forward a £2.5 million pinch point scheme to increase capacity at the M4/A329 (M) junction.</p><p> </p><p>On 7 July the Government agreed the £96.9m Growth Deal with the Thames Valley Berkshire Local Enterprise Partnership. This includes £94.6m to support local transport improvements across the whole of Berkshire, including in and between Windsor and Reading.</p><p> </p><p /> answering member constituency Scarborough and Whitby answering member printed Mr Robert Goodwill question first answered 11/09/2014 13:49:18 answering member 1562 label Biography information for Sir Robert Goodwill
	tabling member	1586 label Biography information for Adam Afriyie

100253

	registered interest
	date	21/10/2014
	answering body	Department for Transport
	answering dept id	27
	answering dept short name	Transport
	answering dept sort name	Transport
	hansard heading	Air Routes: Thames Valley
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment he has made of the noise impact in (a) Windsor constituency and (b) the Thames Valley of recent flight path trials from Heathrow.
	tabling member constituency	Windsor
	tabling member printed	Adam Afriyie
	uin	211324
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/10/2014 answer text <p>The assessment of the noise impact of the trial will be made by Heathrow Airport Ltd in consultation with NATS.</p> answering member constituency Scarborough and Whitby answering member printed Mr Robert Goodwill question first answered 28/10/2014 15:48:31 answering member 1562 label Biography information for Sir Robert Goodwill
	tabling member	1586 label Biography information for Adam Afriyie

66199

	registered interest
	date	07/07/2014
	answering body	Department for Transport
	answering dept id	27
	answering dept short name	Transport
	answering dept sort name	Transport
	hansard heading	Road Traffic
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what recent steps he has taken to reduce congestion (a) in Windsor constituency and (b) around Heathrow Airport.
	tabling member constituency	Windsor
	tabling member printed	Adam Afriyie
	uin	204116
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/07/2014 answer text <p>Transport investment is central to the Government's long term economic plan. On 7<sup>th</sup> July we announced £3 billion of funding for new local transport schemes within the Local Growth Fund. This included £96.9 million for the Thames Valley Berkshire Local Enterprise Partnership (which includes Windsor). Of this, £94.6 million will support transport schemes that have been bid for by the LEP and will make a real difference to transport accessibility in the whole of the Thames Valley. These include provisional funding from 2016/17 onwards of £4.75 million for a sustainable transport package across the Thames Valley LEP area.</p><p> </p><p>Local transport in the Windsor and Maidenhead area has, since 2010, also benefited from investment that will reduce congestion in the area. This includes just over £2 million of Local Pinch Point Funding, £16.1million investment in improving the state of the roads and on small scale transport schemes and around £2 million from the Local Sustainable Transport Fund to ease congestion by promoting travel behaviour change through a package of sustainable travel measures aimed at residents, schools and businesses.</p><p> </p><p>In addition to investment in the local network the Government continues to progress the M4 smart motorway. A further formal public consultation on the scheme will be held in the autumn and subject to development consent and the final business case, construction could start in late Summer 2016. As well as this the Highways Agency is taking forward a £2.5 million scheme to improve the links between the M4 and A329(M), to provide increased capacity at the junction and improve traffic flows. The scheme will be delivered by the end of March 2015.</p><p>The Government is also investing around £500 million in Western Rail Access to Heathrow subject to a satisfactory business case and agreement of acceptable terms with the Heathrow aviation industry. This will facilitate direct rail services between destinations in the Thames Valley and Heathrow airport.</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 14/07/2014 15:19:51 answering member 1562 label Biography information for Sir Robert Goodwill
	tabling member	1586 label Biography information for Adam Afriyie

63969

	registered interest
	date	25/06/2014
	answering body	Department for Transport
	answering dept id	27
	answering dept short name	Transport
	answering dept sort name	Transport
	hansard heading	Railways: North of England
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what recent assessment he has made of the value for money of current levels of service on each section of the (a) TransPennine Express and (b) Northern Rail franchises.
	tabling member constituency	Stockton North
	tabling member printed	Alex Cunningham
	uin	202321
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/07/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>At a Direct Award or franchise Re-let we carry out value for money assessments (in order to calculate Benefit-Cost Ratios) of changes to service levels but we do not undertake this assessment of the existing base service levels where they carry forward into the new Agreement.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>However, for any large procurement exercise such as a Direct Award or Franchise Re-let, we use externally produced comparators that cover the whole of the franchise to allow us to evaluate the price of any bid that we receive.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Wimbledon answering member printed Stephen Hammond question first answered 03/07/2014 14:09:12 answering member 1585 label Biography information for Stephen Hammond
	tabling member	4122 label Biography information for Alex Cunningham

63968

	registered interest
	date	25/06/2014
	answering body	Department for Transport
	answering dept id	27
	answering dept short name	Transport
	answering dept sort name	Transport
	hansard heading	Railways: North of England
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what recent assessment he has made of the match between service levels and passenger demand on each section of the (a) TransPennine Express and (b) Northern Rail franchises.
	tabling member constituency	Stockton North
	tabling member printed	Alex Cunningham
	uin	202320
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/07/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>Between 2002 and 2012 rail demand in the North of England grew by a total of 66% and demand is expected to continue to grow. The Department for Transport is currently preparing its own forecasts of passenger demand for the next franchises to inform the specification.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Northern and TransPennine Express franchises consultation document included information from the Government's Rail Investment Strategy for the period up to March 2019. This set out the number of passengers to be accommodated on services into Leeds and Manchester on a weekday during the morning peak period, as set out in the table below:</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="5"><p>Table 2.2 Number of passengers to be accommodated into Leeds and Manchester</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td colspan="2"><p>Peak Three Hours</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>High-Peak Hour</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Forecast demand in 2013/14</p></td><td><p>Extra demand to be met by 2018/19</p></td><td><p>Forecast demand in 2013/14</p></td><td><p>Extra demand to be met by 2018/19</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Leeds</p></td><td><p>25,400</p></td><td><p>5,100</p></td><td><p>13,000</p></td><td><p>2,800</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Manchester</p></td><td><p>28,100</p></td><td><p>6,200</p></td><td><p>13,600</p></td><td><p>2,600</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>Source: HLOS (2012)</p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Wimbledon answering member printed Stephen Hammond question first answered 03/07/2014 15:06:35 answering member 1585 label Biography information for Stephen Hammond
	tabling member	4122 label Biography information for Alex Cunningham

63976

	registered interest
	date	25/06/2014
	answering body	Department for Transport
	answering dept id	27
	answering dept short name	Transport
	answering dept sort name	Transport
	hansard heading	Railways: North of England
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether the franchise specifications for rail passenger services on the (a) TransPennine and (b) Northern lines contained in his Department's consultation document published on 9 June 2014 will lead to a reduction in services for passengers in the North East.
	tabling member constituency	Stockton North
	tabling member printed	Alex Cunningham
	uin	202433
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/07/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>The specifications for both the Northern and TransPennine Express franchises have not yet been decided. A public consultation exercise is being conducted, which will inform these specifications. The consultation can be found at:<a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/future-of-northern-and-transpennine-express-rail-franchises" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/future-of-northern-and-transpennine-express-rail-franchises</a>. No decisions on services will be made until the consultation process has finished.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Wimbledon answering member printed Stephen Hammond question first answered 03/07/2014 13:55:56 answering member 1585 label Biography information for Stephen Hammond
	tabling member	4122 label Biography information for Alex Cunningham

63972

	registered interest
	date	25/06/2014
	answering body	Department for Transport
	answering dept id	27
	answering dept short name	Transport
	answering dept sort name	Transport
	hansard heading	Railways: North of England
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether the franchise specifications for rail passenger services on the (a) TransPennine and (b) Northern lines contained in his Department's consultation document published on 9 June 2014 will increase the total number of daily (i) peak and (ii) off-peak services on these routes.
	tabling member constituency	Stockton North
	tabling member printed	Alex Cunningham
	uin	202434
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/07/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>The specifications for both the Northern and TransPennine Express franchises have not yet been decided. A public consultation exercise is being conducted, which will inform these specifications. The consultation can be found at:<a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/future-of-northern-and-transpennine-express-rail-franchises" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/future-of-northern-and-transpennine-express-rail-franchises</a>. No decisions on services will be made until the consultation process has finished.</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 Wimbledon answering member printed Stephen Hammond question first answered 03/07/2014 14:07:17 answering member 1585 label Biography information for Stephen Hammond
	tabling member	4122 label Biography information for Alex Cunningham

65792

	registered interest
	date	03/07/2014
	answering body	Department for Transport
	answering dept id	27
	answering dept short name	Transport
	answering dept sort name	Transport
	hansard heading	Railways: North of England
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether rolling stock to be delivered to Northern Rail and TransPennine Express over the next six years will be configured to allow the option of retaining the operational role of the guard.
	tabling member constituency	Stockton North
	tabling member printed	Alex Cunningham
	uin	203919
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/07/2014 answer text <p><strong> </strong></p><p>A public consultation exercise is being conducted which will inform the franchise specifications. The consultation can be found at <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/320806/northern-transpennine-consultation.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/320806/northern-transpennine-consultation.pdf</a>. No decisions have yet been made. However we expect it will be for the winning bidders of the Northern and TransPennine Express franchise competitions to decide what rolling stock to use and whether to configure this rolling stock to allow for retaining the operational role of the guard.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Wimbledon answering member printed Stephen Hammond question first answered 09/07/2014 15:06:38 answering member 1585 label Biography information for Stephen Hammond
	tabling member	4122 label Biography information for Alex Cunningham

64849

	registered interest
	date	30/06/2014
	answering body	Department for Transport
	answering dept id	27
	answering dept short name	Transport
	answering dept sort name	Transport
	hansard heading	Driving Licences
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many driving licences were withdrawn on the basis of alcohol abuse (a) following a road traffic accident and (b) at the request of a GP or medical practitioner in each of the last five years.
	tabling member constituency	Plymouth, Moor View
	tabling member printed	Alison Seabeck
	uin	203098
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/07/2014 answer text <p><strong> </strong></p><p>The Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA) does not hold information on the number of driving licences withdrawn on the basis of alcohol abuse following a road traffic accident.</p><p> </p><p>No driving licences have been withdrawn on the basis of alcohol abuse at the request of a General Practitioner or a medical practitioner in the last five years.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Wimbledon answering member printed Stephen Hammond question first answered 07/07/2014 16:50:19 answering member 1585 label Biography information for Stephen Hammond
	tabling member	1552 label Biography information for Alison Seabeck

90546

	registered interest
	date	03/09/2014
	answering body	Department for Transport
	answering dept id	27
	answering dept short name	Transport
	answering dept sort name	Transport
	hansard heading	Driving Offences
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will take steps to ensure that foreign drivers are subject to the same penalties as British drivers upon failure to produce relevant CPC documentation.
	tabling member constituency	High Peak
	tabling member printed	Andrew Bingham
	uin	207991
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/09/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>All professional drivers of lorries, buses and coaches from EU member states are required to produce the relevant CPC documentation when requested by enforcement officers. I can confirm that non-UK drivers from EU member states are subject to the same penalties as their British counterparts should they fail to do so.</p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 10/09/2014 13:46:56 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
	tabling member	3994 label Biography information for Andrew Bingham