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459127

	registered interest
	date	07/03/2016
	answering body	Department for Transport
	answering dept id	27
	answering dept short name	Transport
	answering dept sort name	Transport
	hansard heading	Roads: Standards
	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 condition of local roads.
	tabling member constituency	Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport
	tabling member printed	Oliver Colvile
	uin	904033
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/03/2016 answer text <p>The Government fully understand how important it is to have a reliable quality road network, which is why we are providing a record £6 billion for local highways maintenance. We have also created the pothole action fund with a budget of £250 million dedicated to delivering better journeys.</p> answering member constituency Harrogate and Knaresborough answering member printed Andrew Jones question first answered 10/03/2016 17:18:31 answering member 3996 label Biography information for Andrew Jones
	tabling member	4022 label Biography information for Oliver Colvile

470541

	registered interest
	date	14/03/2016
	answering body	Department for Transport
	answering dept id	27
	answering dept short name	Transport
	answering dept sort name	Transport
	hansard heading	Roads: Plymouth
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what funding his Department has allocated to Plymouth City Council for pothole maintenance since 2010; and what estimate he has made of how many potholes have been repaired as a result of that funding.
	tabling member constituency	Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport
	tabling member printed	Oliver Colvile
	uin	30961
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/03/2016 answer text <p>The Department for Transport allocated funding of £4.7 billion for local highways maintenance to local highway authorities in England from 2010 to 2015 which would be enough to repair approximately 89 million potholes based on an average of £53 per pothole. A further £6.1 billion is being allocated between now and 2021, including £250 million as part of a Pothole Action Fund, which could fix a further 115 million potholes. For Plymouth City Council we are providing over £25 million for local highways maintenance between 2010 and 2021 enough to help them repair over 400,000 potholes.</p><p /><p /> answering member constituency Harrogate and Knaresborough answering member printed Andrew Jones question first answered 22/03/2016 13:31:59 answering member 3996 label Biography information for Andrew Jones
	tabling member	4022 label Biography information for Oliver Colvile

173806

	registered interest
	date	14/01/2015
	answering body	Department for Transport
	answering dept id	27
	answering dept short name	Transport
	answering dept sort name	Transport
	hansard heading	Railways
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what plans his Department has to improve signalling on the railway between (a) Exeter and Plymouth and (b) Reading and Exeter; and what assessment he has made of the potential effect of improved signalling on those routes.
	tabling member constituency	Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport
	tabling member printed	Oliver Colvile
	uin	220811
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/01/2015 answer text <p>Signal failures are one of the biggest causes of delays on the network. For that reason, Network Rail has an extensive programme underway to improve both the standard and reliability of signalling across the national network.</p><p> </p><p>The Western Route is gradually benefitting from transfer of signalling to a single control centre in Didcot, and this process will eventually encompass the entire route, including those stretches mentioned by my Hon Friend. This will allow a faster and better coordinated response to delays across the route.</p><p> </p><p>My Hon Friend will also be aware of the very large investment which is being made by Network Rail, Cornwall Council and others into the Totnes-Penzance resignalling scheme, which will radically improve the train flow and reliability. It will do this by allowing bidirectional running on the line, meaning that maintenance and disruption can be managed vastly more effectively.</p><p> </p><p>Further details of Network Rail’s plans can be found at the links below. These documents also provide information on the benefits of improved signalling:</p><p> </p><p><a href="http://www.networkrail.co.uk/publications/strategic-business-plan-for%20cp5/" target="_blank">http://www.networkrail.co.uk/publications/strategic-business-plan-for cp5/</a></p><p> </p><p><a href="http://www.networkrail.co.uk/publications/delivery-plans/control-period-5/cp5-delivery-plan/" target="_blank">http://www.networkrail.co.uk/publications/delivery-plans/control-period-5/cp5-delivery-plan/</a></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 21/01/2015 12:58:39 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
	tabling member	4022 label Biography information for Oliver Colvile

173809

	registered interest
	date	14/01/2015
	answering body	Department for Transport
	answering dept id	27
	answering dept short name	Transport
	answering dept sort name	Transport
	hansard heading	Exeter-Plymouth Railway Line
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what plans his Department has to increase capacity on the railway between Exeter and Plymouth.
	tabling member constituency	Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport
	tabling member printed	Oliver Colvile
	uin	220810
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/01/2015 answer text <p>Future rail proposals are being developed with local stakeholders the department and Network Rail, this group will be deliver a local plan for rail investment covering the next 10-20 years. The first step in this process is a meeting of interested parties which is being organised by the South West Peninsular Group, and is due to take place early February. This meeting will work through what is required to provide the South West with greater accessibility and to examine wider issues surrounding connectivity to and within the South West Peninsula.</p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 19/01/2015 14:10:20 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
	tabling member	4022 label Biography information for Oliver Colvile

177749

	registered interest
	date	04/02/2015
	answering body	Department for Transport
	answering dept id	27
	answering dept short name	Transport
	answering dept sort name	Transport
	hansard heading	Railways: Finance
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how much funding his Department has provided for railway and station infrastructure projects in (a) Plymouth, (b) Devon, (c) Cornwall, (d) Torbay, (e) Somerset, (f) Durham, (g) Newcastle, (h) North Tyneside, (i) Northumberland, (j) South Tyneside and (k) Sunderland since 2010; and what estimate he has made of the contribution of the local councils in those locations to such projects.
	tabling member constituency	Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport
	tabling member printed	Oliver Colvile
	uin	223314
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/02/2015 answer text <p>We do not hold the information in the format requested and collating it could only be done at disproportionate cost. However, significant infrastructure improvements have been delivered across the UK since 2010. Further details of this, and committed spend in future years, are available at <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/national-infrastructure-plan" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/national-infrastructure-plan</a>.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 09/02/2015 15:52:38 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
	tabling member	4022 label Biography information for Oliver Colvile

349366

	registered interest
	date	09/06/2015
	answering body	Department for Transport
	answering dept id	27
	answering dept short name	Transport
	answering dept sort name	Transport
	hansard heading	Rolling Stock: South West
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, when his Department will decide whether to order additional new rolling stock from Hitachi to service the far South West; and if he will include a more powerful hybrid engine to account for the undulating geography of the South West in such an order.
	tabling member constituency	Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport
	tabling member printed	Oliver Colvile
	uin	1577
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/06/2015 answer text <p>First Great Western’s procurement exercise for new trains to serve the South West is making good progress; and we expect them to submit final proposals to the Department for consideration over the summer. The new train fleet will have appropriate performance characteristics to operate on the far South West routes.</p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 17/06/2015 11:18:38 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
	tabling member	4022 label Biography information for Oliver Colvile

421480

	registered interest
	date	14/10/2015
	answering body	Department for Transport
	answering dept id	27
	answering dept short name	Transport
	answering dept sort name	Transport
	hansard heading	Railways: Devon
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what geological assessment his Department has made to ensure the stability of (a) the sea wall at Dawlish, (b) the cliff at Teignmouth and (c) the line between Newton Abbott and Plymouth.
	tabling member constituency	Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport
	tabling member printed	Oliver Colvile
	uin	11904
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/10/2015 answer text <p>Network Rail is carrying out a further study to look at options to increase the long term geo-environmental resilience of the existing main line from Exeter to Newton Abbot. The study looks at the coastal and sea wall elements and the cliffs. It is due to be fully complete in April 2016 with an options assessment report available by the end of 2015. There has been no geological assessment of the rail route from Newton Abbot to Plymouth.</p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 22/10/2015 07:59:17 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
	tabling member	4022 label Biography information for Oliver Colvile

426305

	registered interest
	date	04/11/2015
	answering body	Department for Transport
	answering dept id	27
	answering dept short name	Transport
	answering dept sort name	Transport
	hansard heading	Railways: South West
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether Sir Peter Hendy's work to re-plan the Network Rail enhancements programme in Control Period 5, 2014-19, takes account of maximising the journey time benefit for the South West peninsula by use of the new high-speed AT300 trains which are due to be introduced in December 2018.
	tabling member constituency	Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport
	tabling member printed	Oliver Colvile
	uin	14781
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/11/2015 answer text <p><strong></strong></p><p>Sir Peter Hendy has been asked to review Network Rail’s enhancement portfolio, so that works may be delivered over a more realistic timeframe. The terms of reference are clear that work is to be prioritised to take “<em>particular account of interfaces with other infrastructure programmes and the need to deliver the required passenger and freight benefits, franchise or rolling stock commitments”. </em>Sir Peter Hendy is due to report later in the Autumn.</p><br /> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 10/11/2015 15:10:27 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
	tabling member	4022 label Biography information for Oliver Colvile

515705

	registered interest
	date	25/04/2016
	answering body	Department for Transport
	answering dept id	27
	answering dept short name	Transport
	answering dept sort name	Transport
	hansard heading	Railways: South West
	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 economic benefits of the construction of a second rail line into the South West.
	tabling member constituency	Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport
	tabling member printed	Oliver Colvile
	uin	904756
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/04/2016 answer text <p>The reinstatement of the Exeter - Okehampton - Plymouth route and the economic value of re-opening it is being looked at by the Peninsula Rail Task Force (PRTF). They will report to the Secretary of State in July 2016.</p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 28/04/2016 15:40:10 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
	tabling member	4022 label Biography information for Oliver Colvile

573531

	registered interest
	date	02/09/2016
	answering body	Department for Transport
	answering dept id	27
	answering dept short name	Transport
	answering dept sort name	Transport
	hansard heading	Great Western Railway: WiFi
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what improvements to WiFi coverage on trains are being made by Great Western Railways.
	tabling member constituency	Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport
	tabling member printed	Oliver Colvile
	uin	44119
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/09/2016 answer text <p>First Great Western InterCity and Thames Valley trains have been fitted with on-train Wi-Fi. Following the Direct Award Great Western Railway is fitting free Wi-Fi to all Super Express Trains, Electrical Multiple Units and long term diesel trains remaining in the fleet.</p><p> </p><p>The fitted trains include the new AT300 trains providing London to South West services. Great Western Railway state in their ‘Annual Stakeholder Report 2015-16’ that this work will be completed by December 2018.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Blackpool North and Cleveleys answering member printed Paul Maynard question first answered 12/09/2016 13:39:26 answering member 3926 label Biography information for Paul Maynard
	tabling member	4022 label Biography information for Oliver Colvile