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1242262

	registered interest
	date	12/10/2020
	answering body	Department for Transport
	answering dept id	27
	answering dept short name	Transport
	answering dept sort name	Transport
	hansard heading	Ports: EU Law
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what plans they have to review the application of Commission Regulation (EC) No 906/2009, on the application of Article 81(3) of the Treaty to certain categories of agreements, decisions and concerted practices between liner shipping companies, to shipping lines and services serving ports in the UK.
	tabling member printed	Viscount Waverley
	uin	HL9094
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/10/2020 answer text <p>Following the European Commission's decision earlier this year, the application of the Regulation has been renewed in respect of the European Union until April 2024. The European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018 and the Competition (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 preserve the Regulation in the UK as a retained exemption. This means that, after the end of the Transition Period, the retained Regulation will operate as an exemption from the prohibition against anti-competitive behaviour in UK law until it expires in April 2024. The Secretary of State will have the power, after the Transition Period, to vary or revoke the retained exemption, acting in consultation with the Competition and Markets Authority.</p> answering member printed Baroness Vere of Norbiton question first answered 23/10/2020 11:16:11 answering member 4580 label Biography information for Baroness Vere of Norbiton
	tabling member	1744 label Biography information for Viscount Waverley

1242250

	registered interest
	date	12/10/2020
	answering body	Department for Transport
	answering dept id	27
	answering dept short name	Transport
	answering dept sort name	Transport
	hansard heading	Railway Stations: Access
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government whether social value requirements were (1) considered, and (2) taken into account, when awarding contracts for the Access for All programme; and if so, (a) what weighting was given to social value in each stage of the procurement process, and (b) what are the details of the social value that successful bidding organisations reported that they could add.
	tabling member printed	Lord Shinkwin
	uin	HL9069
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/10/2020 answer text <p>The Access for All Programme prioritised the busiest stations first and took into account factors such as the incidence of disability in the area, proximity to a hospital, and stations that have high numbers of interchange passengers. A proportion of the funding was also set aside for smaller projects such as customer information systems which promote confidence to travel. This is how we recognise that improved accessibility has benefits that are hard to quantify and are therefore not explicitly reported in terms of social value.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Vere of Norbiton question first answered 23/10/2020 11:11:41 answering member 4580 label Biography information for Baroness Vere of Norbiton
	tabling member	4557 label Biography information for Lord Shinkwin

1242236

	registered interest
	date	12/10/2020
	answering body	Department for Transport
	answering dept id	27
	answering dept short name	Transport
	answering dept sort name	Transport
	hansard heading	Cycling
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to provide support for adults to take up cycling, including for commuting to work.
	tabling member printed	Lord Kennedy of Southwark
	uin	HL9044
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/10/2020 answer text <p>On 28 July the Prime Minister launched ambitious plans to boost cycling and walking, with the aim that half of all journeys in towns and cities are cycled or walked by 2030. This includes a £2 billion package of funding for active travel over the next 5 years, which is the largest ever boost for cycling and walking, and will deliver transformational change. The plan includes a number of commitments which will provide support for adults to take up cycling including the roll-out of segregated cycle lanes in towns and cities and offering cycle training to everyone who wants to undertake it, whether free or at a nominal charge.</p><p> </p><p>This support for adult cycling builds on the refreshed Cycle to Work Scheme Guidance published in 2019 which made it easier for employers to provide bicycles and equipment including e-bikes and adapted bikes worth over £1,000. The Department has also made funding available in the current financial year for adult cycle training, through both the Bikeability scheme and the Access Fund, and has paid £2m to Transport for London to allow cycle training to be delivered to adults in the capital.</p> answering member printed Baroness Vere of Norbiton question first answered 23/10/2020 11:32:23 answering member 4580 label Biography information for Baroness Vere of Norbiton
	tabling member	4153 label Biography information for Lord Kennedy of Southwark

1242226

	registered interest
	date	12/10/2020
	answering body	Department for Transport
	answering dept id	27
	answering dept short name	Transport
	answering dept sort name	Transport
	hansard heading	Department for Transport: Consultants
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government how much was spent on consultancy services by the Department for Transport and its related agencies in the 2019/20 financial year; and what was the (1) cost of, and (2) reason for, each such contract.
	tabling member printed	Lord Berkeley
	uin	HL9015
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/10/2020 answer text <p>The Department for Transport and its Executive Agencies spent £77.5m in the financial year 2019/20 on consultancy services.</p><p> </p><p>The Department publishes details of all spend above £25000 on Gov.uk and this includes details of consultancy contracts. The main areas for spend for consultancy were within rail, covering rail operations and upgrading rail infrastructure.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Vere of Norbiton question first answered 23/10/2020 11:01:03 answering member 4580 label Biography information for Baroness Vere of Norbiton
	tabling member	3526 label Biography information for Lord Berkeley

1242312

	registered interest
	date	12/10/2020
	answering body	Department for Transport
	answering dept id	27
	answering dept short name	Transport
	answering dept sort name	Transport
	hansard heading	Roads: Closures
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to their confirmation that the public sector equality duty still applies in cases where roads have been closed under COVID-19 emergency legislation, whether this obliges local authorities to carry out an Equality Impact Assessment of their road closures.
	tabling member printed	Baroness Wolf of Dulwich
	uin	HL9099
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/10/2020 answer text <p>It is for local authorities to ensure that any changes they propose to make to road layouts are delivered in line with relevant legislation, consultation and noticing requirements.</p><p> </p><p>The Emergency Active Travel Fund (EATF) was announced on 9 May and included £225 million of funding in two tranches for local authorities in England. Alongside the funding, the Government published additional Network Management Duty guidance. This clearly set out what the Government expects local authorities to do in making changes to their road layouts to encourage cycling and walking in response to Covid-19 and to support a green restart and recovery. These measures included road closures, for example to create low-traffic neighbourhoods.</p><p> </p><p>The guidance is clear that the Public Sector Equality Duty still applies, and in making any changes to their road networks, authorities must consider the needs of disabled people and those with other protected characteristics, for example by carrying out Equality Impact Assessments on proposed schemes.</p><p>It is for local authorities to ensure any such assessments are carried out in line with relevant procedures.</p><p> </p><p>The Local Air Quality Management regime requires that local authorities review and assess air quality in their area. This will normally include monitoring pollution levels especially where the local authority assesses that air quality objectives may be exceeded.</p> answering member printed Baroness Vere of Norbiton grouped question UIN HL9100 HL9101 HL9102 question first answered 23/10/2020 11:18:24 answering member 4580 label Biography information for Baroness Vere of Norbiton
	tabling member	4347 label Biography information for Baroness Wolf of Dulwich

1242313

	registered interest
	date	12/10/2020
	answering body	Department for Transport
	answering dept id	27
	answering dept short name	Transport
	answering dept sort name	Transport
	hansard heading	Roads: Closures
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government whether experimental road closures made under regulations relating to the COVID-19 pandemic require an Equality Impact Assessment, and if so, (1) whether the results of those Assessment must be published, (2) what the timeframe is for (a) completing and (b) publishing the Assessment, following the closures.
	tabling member printed	Baroness Wolf of Dulwich
	uin	HL9100
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/10/2020 answer text <p>It is for local authorities to ensure that any changes they propose to make to road layouts are delivered in line with relevant legislation, consultation and noticing requirements.</p><p> </p><p>The Emergency Active Travel Fund (EATF) was announced on 9 May and included £225 million of funding in two tranches for local authorities in England. Alongside the funding, the Government published additional Network Management Duty guidance. This clearly set out what the Government expects local authorities to do in making changes to their road layouts to encourage cycling and walking in response to Covid-19 and to support a green restart and recovery. These measures included road closures, for example to create low-traffic neighbourhoods.</p><p> </p><p>The guidance is clear that the Public Sector Equality Duty still applies, and in making any changes to their road networks, authorities must consider the needs of disabled people and those with other protected characteristics, for example by carrying out Equality Impact Assessments on proposed schemes.</p><p>It is for local authorities to ensure any such assessments are carried out in line with relevant procedures.</p><p> </p><p>The Local Air Quality Management regime requires that local authorities review and assess air quality in their area. This will normally include monitoring pollution levels especially where the local authority assesses that air quality objectives may be exceeded.</p> answering member printed Baroness Vere of Norbiton grouped question UIN HL9099 HL9101 HL9102 question first answered 23/10/2020 11:18:24 answering member 4580 label Biography information for Baroness Vere of Norbiton
	tabling member	4347 label Biography information for Baroness Wolf of Dulwich

1242314

	registered interest
	date	12/10/2020
	answering body	Department for Transport
	answering dept id	27
	answering dept short name	Transport
	answering dept sort name	Transport
	hansard heading	Roads: Closures
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what plans they have to publish regulations requiring (1) the assessment of the impact of experimental road closures on protected characteristic groups, and (2) the mitigating action in the event of an adverse impact on those groups.
	tabling member printed	Baroness Wolf of Dulwich
	uin	HL9101
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/10/2020 answer text <p>It is for local authorities to ensure that any changes they propose to make to road layouts are delivered in line with relevant legislation, consultation and noticing requirements.</p><p> </p><p>The Emergency Active Travel Fund (EATF) was announced on 9 May and included £225 million of funding in two tranches for local authorities in England. Alongside the funding, the Government published additional Network Management Duty guidance. This clearly set out what the Government expects local authorities to do in making changes to their road layouts to encourage cycling and walking in response to Covid-19 and to support a green restart and recovery. These measures included road closures, for example to create low-traffic neighbourhoods.</p><p> </p><p>The guidance is clear that the Public Sector Equality Duty still applies, and in making any changes to their road networks, authorities must consider the needs of disabled people and those with other protected characteristics, for example by carrying out Equality Impact Assessments on proposed schemes.</p><p>It is for local authorities to ensure any such assessments are carried out in line with relevant procedures.</p><p> </p><p>The Local Air Quality Management regime requires that local authorities review and assess air quality in their area. This will normally include monitoring pollution levels especially where the local authority assesses that air quality objectives may be exceeded.</p> answering member printed Baroness Vere of Norbiton grouped question UIN HL9099 HL9100 HL9102 question first answered 23/10/2020 11:18:24 answering member 4580 label Biography information for Baroness Vere of Norbiton
	tabling member	4347 label Biography information for Baroness Wolf of Dulwich

1242315

	registered interest
	date	12/10/2020
	answering body	Department for Transport
	answering dept id	27
	answering dept short name	Transport
	answering dept sort name	Transport
	hansard heading	Roads: Closures
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government whether local authorities have any obligation to monitor the impact on air quality of road closures, whether experimental or permanent, including in adjacent roads to which traffic may be displaced.
	tabling member printed	Baroness Wolf of Dulwich
	uin	HL9102
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/10/2020 answer text <p>It is for local authorities to ensure that any changes they propose to make to road layouts are delivered in line with relevant legislation, consultation and noticing requirements.</p><p> </p><p>The Emergency Active Travel Fund (EATF) was announced on 9 May and included £225 million of funding in two tranches for local authorities in England. Alongside the funding, the Government published additional Network Management Duty guidance. This clearly set out what the Government expects local authorities to do in making changes to their road layouts to encourage cycling and walking in response to Covid-19 and to support a green restart and recovery. These measures included road closures, for example to create low-traffic neighbourhoods.</p><p> </p><p>The guidance is clear that the Public Sector Equality Duty still applies, and in making any changes to their road networks, authorities must consider the needs of disabled people and those with other protected characteristics, for example by carrying out Equality Impact Assessments on proposed schemes.</p><p>It is for local authorities to ensure any such assessments are carried out in line with relevant procedures.</p><p> </p><p>The Local Air Quality Management regime requires that local authorities review and assess air quality in their area. This will normally include monitoring pollution levels especially where the local authority assesses that air quality objectives may be exceeded.</p> answering member printed Baroness Vere of Norbiton grouped question UIN HL9099 HL9100 HL9101 question first answered 23/10/2020 11:18:24 answering member 4580 label Biography information for Baroness Vere of Norbiton
	tabling member	4347 label Biography information for Baroness Wolf of Dulwich

1242316

	registered interest
	date	12/10/2020
	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	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government (1) how traffic congestion has been monitored in England, (2) what data they have collected, and (3) what data they have published, about such monitoring since 2015.
	tabling member printed	Baroness Wolf of Dulwich
	uin	HL9103
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/10/2020 answer text <p>The Department for Transport produces statistics on road congestion on the Strategic Road Network (SRN) and local ‘A’ roads in England. These statistics, used to monitor road congestion and journey time reliability, are compiled from journey time data from in-vehicle global positioning systems (GPS).</p><p> </p><p>The statistics report two measures of congestion- average speed as an estimate of the physical level of congestion and average delay which is the difference between speed limit (SRN) or free flow (local ‘A’ roads) travel times and average journey times.</p><p> </p><p>Statistics from April 2015 onwards for congestion on the SRN and January 2014 onwards for local ‘A’ roads are published online as part of the 'Road congestion and travel times' collection on gov.uk.</p> answering member printed Baroness Vere of Norbiton question first answered 23/10/2020 11:19:10 answering member 4580 label Biography information for Baroness Vere of Norbiton
	tabling member	4347 label Biography information for Baroness Wolf of Dulwich

1242115

	registered interest
	date	09/10/2020
	answering body	Department for Transport
	answering dept id	27
	answering dept short name	Transport
	answering dept sort name	Transport
	hansard heading	Travel: Health
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment, if any, they have made of the impact digital health passes could have on international travel.
	tabling member printed	Baroness Kennedy of Cradley
	uin	HL8973
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/10/2020 answer text <p>Our approach has had to balance the risks of imported COVID-19 cases whilst also enabling international travel, which is critical to our economy. To support these objectives, we have worked closely with health and policy experts from across Government.</p><p> </p><p>We keep all measures under constant review; the Global Travel Taskforce is working at pace to consider how testing, technology and innovation can drive a recovery for international travel and tourism.</p> answering member printed Baroness Vere of Norbiton question first answered 23/10/2020 13:24:30 answering member 4580 label Biography information for Baroness Vere of Norbiton
	tabling member	4303 label Biography information for Baroness Kennedy of Cradley