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1536184

	registered interest
	date	26/10/2022
	answering body	Women and Equalities
	answering dept id	31
	answering dept short name	Women and Equalities
	answering dept sort name	Women and Equalities
	hansard heading	Women: New Businesses
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, what steps her Department is taking to support female entrepreneurs.
	tabling member constituency	Gosport
	tabling member printed	Dame Caroline Dinenage
	uin	901850
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/10/2022 answer text <p>We are committed to harnessing the skills, innovation and talents of female entrepreneurs. That’s why this Government launched a Women-Led High-Growth Enterprise Taskforce in May 2022, led by Anne Boden of Starling Bank and with a membership of some of this country’s most successful female entrepreneurs.</p><p>It will use its convening power to influence high-growth investors, raise the aspirations of the next generation and work to stimulate regional funding opportunities.</p> answering member constituency South Ribble answering member printed Katherine Fletcher question first answered 26/10/2022 13:04:24 answering member 4834 label Biography information for Katherine Fletcher
	tabling member	4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage

1535403

	registered interest
	date	24/10/2022
	answering body	Department for Transport
	answering dept id	27
	answering dept short name	Transport
	answering dept sort name	Transport
	hansard heading	Department for Transport: Location
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if they will publish the payments made to officials in their Department for relocation to government offices outside London in 2021.
	tabling member constituency	Vauxhall
	tabling member printed	Florence Eshalomi
	uin	69876
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/10/2022 answer text <p>The total of all claims made under this policy during 2021 was £18,083.14.</p> answering member constituency South Ribble answering member printed Katherine Fletcher question first answered 27/10/2022 10:37:03 answering member 4834 label Biography information for Katherine Fletcher
	tabling member	4870 label Biography information for Florence Eshalomi

1535563

	registered interest
	date	24/10/2022
	answering body	Department for Transport
	answering dept id	27
	answering dept short name	Transport
	answering dept sort name	Transport
	hansard heading	Great British Railways
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what recent estimate she has made of the cost to the public purse of the establishment and operation of Great British Railways.
	tabling member constituency	Slough
	tabling member printed	Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi
	uin	69768
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/10/2022 answer text <p>The cost of establishment and ongoing operations of Great British Railways will be confirmed in the final business case in 2023.</p> answering member constituency South Ribble answering member printed Katherine Fletcher question first answered 27/10/2022 10:32:50 answering member 4834 label Biography information for Katherine Fletcher
	tabling member	4638 label Biography information for Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi

1535566

	registered interest
	date	24/10/2022
	answering body	Department for Transport
	answering dept id	27
	answering dept short name	Transport
	answering dept sort name	Transport
	hansard heading	Great British Railways
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what the cost of consultants supporting or contracted by the Great British Railways Transition Team was in each month from February 2022.
	tabling member constituency	Slough
	tabling member printed	Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi
	uin	69769
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/10/2022 answer text <p>Total spend on Great British Railways Transition Team (GBRTT)’s consultancy support over the period from 11 February 2022 to 15 October 2022 was £15.5 million. Data on monthly cost for consultants supporting the GBRTT is not available in the format requested as GBRTT hold data in accounting periods rather than calendar months.</p> answering member constituency South Ribble answering member printed Katherine Fletcher question first answered 27/10/2022 10:34:15 answering member 4834 label Biography information for Katherine Fletcher
	tabling member	4638 label Biography information for Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi

1535567

	registered interest
	date	24/10/2022
	answering body	Department for Transport
	answering dept id	27
	answering dept short name	Transport
	answering dept sort name	Transport
	hansard heading	Great British Railways
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what recent discussions she has had with local authorities and other stakeholders on the Great British Railways Headquarters competition, following the announcement the project is delayed.
	tabling member constituency	Slough
	tabling member printed	Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi
	uin	69770
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/10/2022 answer text <p>A final decision and announcement will be made on the location for the GBR headquarters shortly.</p><p>It would be inappropriate to enter further detailed discussions with the relevant local authorities and stakeholders ahead of this announcement.</p> answering member constituency South Ribble answering member printed Katherine Fletcher question first answered 27/10/2022 10:35:36 answering member 4834 label Biography information for Katherine Fletcher
	tabling member	4638 label Biography information for Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi

1535573

	registered interest
	date	24/10/2022
	answering body	Department for Transport
	answering dept id	27
	answering dept short name	Transport
	answering dept sort name	Transport
	hansard heading	TransPennine Express
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether she has had recent discussions with TransPennine Express on service levels.
	tabling member constituency	Slough
	tabling member printed	Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi
	uin	69772
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/10/2022 answer text <p>The Department, through its Rail North Partnership with Transport for the North, has regular discussions with the operator and stakeholders in the north on service levels. The Rail North Partnership will continue work with TPE to manage services and develop plans to resolve issues with them.</p> answering member constituency South Ribble answering member printed Katherine Fletcher question first answered 27/10/2022 10:31:11 answering member 4834 label Biography information for Katherine Fletcher
	tabling member	4638 label Biography information for Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi

1525047

	registered interest
	date	21/10/2022
	answering body	Department for Transport
	answering dept id	27
	answering dept short name	Transport
	answering dept sort name	Transport
	hansard heading	Roads: Construction
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask, the Secretary of State for Transport, how many and what proportion of the Road projects list in Annex B: Infrastructure Projects of the Growth Plan 2022 are awaiting her consent to begin; and when each application was submitted to her Department for approval.
	tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Heeley
	tabling member printed	Louise Haigh
	uin	68562
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/10/2022 answer text <p>In this answer we are describing approval of the funding or business case, and not decisions related to statutory planning or consents.</p><p>All 10 of the Strategic Road Network schemes on the list are committed schemes in the Roads Investment Strategy. 6 of these will require a specific funding or business case sign off from DfT Ministers prior to starting construction. 15 of the 31 Major Road Network schemes named in the growth plan have been given conditional funding approval and are now working towards final approval. The local authority promoters of the remaining 16 are working up their cases to seek conditional funding approval. The applications for the 45 Safer Roads Fund schemes will be sent to local authorities shortly for return in the new year. The projects are then expected to begin by the end of the financial year.</p> answering member constituency South Ribble answering member printed Katherine Fletcher question first answered 26/10/2022 09:03:51 answering member 4834 label Biography information for Katherine Fletcher
	tabling member	4473 label Biography information for Louise Haigh

1525053

	registered interest
	date	21/10/2022
	answering body	Department for Transport
	answering dept id	27
	answering dept short name	Transport
	answering dept sort name	Transport
	hansard heading	Road Traffic Act 1988
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 21 September 2022 to Question 48313 on Road Traffic Act 1988, whether it is still his policy to publish a call for evidence on the Road Traffic Act 1988 by the end of 2022.
	tabling member constituency	Houghton and Sunderland South
	tabling member printed	Bridget Phillipson
	uin	68524
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/10/2022 answer text <p>The Department for Transport is considering the publication of a call for evidence on motoring offences. As noted previously, while work is still continuing as to its precise scope and timings, it is expected to include aspects of drink and drug driving, failure to stop and report and the opportunity to raise other matters.</p> answering member constituency South Ribble answering member printed Katherine Fletcher question first answered 26/10/2022 09:02:25 answering member 4834 label Biography information for Katherine Fletcher
	tabling member	4046 label Biography information for Bridget Phillipson

1524608

	registered interest
	date	20/10/2022
	answering body	Department for Transport
	answering dept id	27
	answering dept short name	Transport
	answering dept sort name	Transport
	hansard heading	Road Traffic: Noise
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to her Department's noise detecting traffic camera trials, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of using such cameras in Batley and Spen constituency.
	tabling member constituency	Batley and Spen
	tabling member printed	Kim Leadbeater
	uin	68041
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/10/2022 answer text <p>The Department’s roadside trials of noise camera technology commenced on 18 October. Over 70 applications for the trial were received, but due to the project being in the research stage and the prototype nature of the technology, only 4 sites could be selected. Shortlisted sites were chosen based on a number of factors to achieve a sufficiently wide range of road types to test the noise camera technology.</p><p>Unfortunately, we are unable to consider any further applications for trial locations, but 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 25/10/2022 09:42:38 answering member 4834 label Biography information for Katherine Fletcher
	tabling member	4923 label Biography information for Kim Leadbeater

1524625

	registered interest
	date	20/10/2022
	answering body	Department for Transport
	answering dept id	27
	answering dept short name	Transport
	answering dept sort name	Transport
	hansard heading	Railways: Pay
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether her Department has made a recent assessment of the adequacy of pay levels for staff working across the railway network.
	tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Wavertree
	tabling member printed	Paula Barker
	uin	68023
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/10/2022 answer text <p>According to data from the Office for National Statistics, in 2021 the median gross salary of all rail workers was £44,000. This is around 70% above the national median of £26,000.</p><p>A report, published on 6 October 2022 by the Office of Rail and Road (ORR), benchmarked rail employment cost data for both Network Rail and for the first time Train Operating Companies with comparative roles. The report found aggregate industry level pay was broadly in line with (but towards the upper end of) that for comparable roles employed elsewhere in the UK economy.</p><p>The report can be found here: <a href="https://www.orr.gov.uk/sites/default/files/2022-10/review-of-rail-industry-employment-costs-06-10-2022_1.pdf" target="_blank">Review of rail industry employment costs (orr.gov.uk)</a></p> answering member constituency South Ribble answering member printed Katherine Fletcher question first answered 27/10/2022 10:27:40 answering member 4834 label Biography information for Katherine Fletcher
	tabling member	4828 label Biography information for Paula Barker