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810112

	registered interest
	date	20/12/2017
	answering body	Department for Transport
	answering dept id	27
	answering dept short name	Transport
	answering dept sort name	Transport
	hansard heading	Heathrow Airport
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what estimate he has made of the number of additional daily trips on the public transport network arising from expansion at Heathrow Airport.
	tabling member constituency	Twickenham
	tabling member printed	Sir Vince Cable
	uin	120578
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/01/2018 answer text <p>In October 2017 the Department published within its <em>Updated Appraisal Report: Airport Capacity in the South East</em>, details of the estimated surface access trips for both highway and public transport trips for each of the airport expansion options as inputs to its non-flight carbon assessment.</p><p> </p><p>Details of the estimates for annual public transport trips for the Heathrow Airport options are set out in the following table:</p><p> </p><p><em><br> </em></p><p><strong>Annual public transport trips by passengers and employees at Heathrow, DfT17 central forecasts (millions)</strong></p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td colspan="4"><p>Public transport trips</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p><strong>2026</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2030</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2040</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2050</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>No Expansion</p></td><td><p>41.3</p></td><td><p>43.6</p></td><td><p>48.8</p></td><td><p>53.4</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>LHR Extended Northern Runway</p></td><td><p>51.1</p></td><td><p>58.1</p></td><td><p>64.5</p></td><td><p>70.4</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>LHR Northwest Runway</p></td><td><p>51.1</p></td><td><p>60.1</p></td><td><p>66.6</p></td><td><p>73.4</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>Source: Department for Transport: Table A.4 Updated Appraisal Report: Airport Capacity in the South East (October 2017)</p><p> </p><p>As part of the surface access requirements in the draft Airports National Policy Statement, Government has specified that any applicant must submit a surface access strategy as part of any Development Consent Order application.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Wealden answering member printed Ms Nusrat Ghani question first answered 12/01/2018 13:52:19 answering member 4460 label Biography information for Ms Nusrat Ghani
	tabling member	207 label Biography information for Sir Vince Cable

810706

	registered interest
	date	21/12/2017
	answering body	Department for Transport
	answering dept id	27
	answering dept short name	Transport
	answering dept sort name	Transport
	hansard heading	European Maritime Safety Agency
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether he plans to maintain UK membership of the European Maritime Safety Agency after the UK leaves the EU.
	tabling member constituency	Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport
	tabling member printed	Luke Pollard
	uin	121051
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/01/2018 answer text <p>The government is considering carefully how best to continue collaborating with our European partners on maritime safety, security and environmental issues, including our continued engagement with the European Maritime Safety Agency.</p> answering member constituency Wealden answering member printed Ms Nusrat Ghani question first answered 12/01/2018 14:01:42 answering member 4460 label Biography information for Ms Nusrat Ghani
	tabling member	4682 label Biography information for Luke Pollard

810544

	registered interest
	date	21/12/2017
	answering body	Department for Transport
	answering dept id	27
	answering dept short name	Transport
	answering dept sort name	Transport
	hansard heading	Department for Transport: Regulation
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what the title was of each set of regulations introduced by his Department in each month since May 2010; which of those regulations have been (a) subject to the (i) one in one out and (ii) one in two out procedure and (b) (i) revoked and (ii) amended; and what the net cost to (A) the public purse; and (B) business of those regulations is.
	tabling member constituency	Witham
	tabling member printed	Priti Patel
	uin	120889
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/01/2018 answer text <p>A table giving the titles of new and amended regulations which have been introduced by the department since May 2010 and indicating which of those have been revoked is attached.</p><p> </p><p>All regulations that regulated or deregulated business were subject to the one-in, one-out rule from January 2011 and subsequently the one-in, two-out rule from January 2013. The changes to regulations affecting business during the 2010-15 Parliament are recorded in Statements of New Regulation that were published every six months and which included accounts of departments’ performance against the one-in, one-out/one-in, two-out rule. These are available on:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/one-in-two-out-statement-of-new-regulation" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/one-in-two-out-statement-of-new-regulation</a></p><p> </p><p>For the 2015-17 Parliament, the Government will shortly publish its final report on the savings to business delivered during that Parliament.</p><p> </p><p>Estimates of the cost of regulation to the private sector and the public purse are detailed in the Impact Assessments which are published on the legislation.gov.uk website. The table listing regulations includes links to the relevant Impact Assessments. These Impact Assessments show the expected public sector costs and costs to business of each of those regulations.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Wealden answering member printed Ms Nusrat Ghani question first answered 12/01/2018 14:19:45 answering member 4460 label Biography information for Ms Nusrat Ghani attachment 1 file name 120889 - Regulations introduced by DfT since May 2010.docx title 120889 - Regs introduced by DfT since May 2010
	tabling member	4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel

810631

	registered interest
	date	21/12/2017
	answering body	Department for Transport
	answering dept id	27
	answering dept short name	Transport
	answering dept sort name	Transport
	hansard heading	Department for Transport: Regulation
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what processes his Department has put in place to (a) monitor, (b) collate cost information on, (c) review and (d) respond to requests to amend or revoke regulations introduced by his Department.
	tabling member constituency	Witham
	tabling member printed	Priti Patel
	uin	120976
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/01/2018 answer text <p>The Department is committed to maintaining a proportionate approach to regulation to enable business growth while maintaining public protections. This will be monitored through the Business Impact Target that the Government is required to set under the Small Business, Enterprise and Employment Act 2015.</p><p> </p><p>All new policies, programmes and projects are subject to a proportionate assessment of their impact. Where there is a statutory review clause a report of the findings of the review will be published on the Gov.uk website.</p><p> </p><p>The Department always welcomes practical suggestions on how to improve or reduce the burden of regulation.</p> answering member constituency Wealden answering member printed Ms Nusrat Ghani question first answered 12/01/2018 14:23:17 answering member 4460 label Biography information for Ms Nusrat Ghani
	tabling member	4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel

810485

	registered interest
	date	21/12/2017
	answering body	Department for Transport
	answering dept id	27
	answering dept short name	Transport
	answering dept sort name	Transport
	hansard heading	Department for Transport: Brexit
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what estimate he has made of the (a) amount of time and (b) resources that his Department allocated to the production of impact assessments on the UK leaving the EU; and on what date work on those impact assessments started.
	tabling member constituency	Carshalton and Wallington
	tabling member printed	Tom Brake
	uin	120831
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/01/2018 answer text <p>Impact Assessments, typically related to specific new primary legislation before Parliament, are narrowly defined. For example, the Government laid an impact assessment alongside the European Union (Withdrawal) Bill, which can be found on our website.</p><p> </p><p>Civil servants conduct any Impact Assessments related to legislation as business as usual. Our broader analysis continues.</p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency Wealden answering member printed Ms Nusrat Ghani question first answered 12/01/2018 14:27:26 answering member 4460 label Biography information for Ms Nusrat Ghani
	tabling member	151 label Biography information for Tom Brake

810572

	registered interest
	date	21/12/2017
	answering body	Department for Transport
	answering dept id	27
	answering dept short name	Transport
	answering dept sort name	Transport
	hansard heading	Department for Transport: Regulation
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, which EU (a) Directives, (b) Regulations and (c) other legislation affecting his Department he is planning to propose the (i) revocation and (ii) amendment of after the UK leaves the EU.
	tabling member constituency	Witham
	tabling member printed	Priti Patel
	uin	120917
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/01/2018 answer text <p>The European Union (Withdrawal) Bill will retain EU law as it applies in the UK on exit day.</p><p> </p><p>We expect between 800 and 1000 statutory instruments will be required across Government to correct this retained EU law to ensure the statute book functions appropriately outside the EU. All Departments are engaged in this process.</p><p> </p><p>Once we leave the EU, we will make our own laws. As we leave the EU, the Government’s EU exit legislative programme is designed to cater for the full range of negotiated and non-negotiated outcomes.</p> answering member constituency Wealden answering member printed Ms Nusrat Ghani question first answered 12/01/2018 14:30:56 answering member 4460 label Biography information for Ms Nusrat Ghani
	tabling member	4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel

810677

	registered interest
	date	21/12/2017
	answering body	Department for Transport
	answering dept id	27
	answering dept short name	Transport
	answering dept sort name	Transport
	hansard heading	Department for Transport: Travel
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how much his Department has spent on (a) taxis, (b) first class train tickets and (c) business class air travel in each of the last four years.
	tabling member constituency	Denton and Reddish
	tabling member printed	Andrew Gwynne
	uin	121022
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/01/2018 answer text <p>It should be noted that it is not possible to make year-on-year comparisons over these four years due to significant changes in the way that the data requested is recorded, in particular due to a change in travel provider towards the end of 2015/16. The change in travel provider has also made it difficult to obtain a full set of data for 2015/16 and prior years without incurring disproportionate cost.</p><p> </p><p>All central Department staff, who incur most of the travel spend across the DfT family, are expected to travel standard class irrespective of grade except under very limited circumstances. With respect to air travel staff are allowed to book non-standard class flights if they are longer than eight hours in duration and with the expectation that the individual needs to carry out Departmental work as soon as they arrive at the destination. The majority of the central Department non-standard class air travel is incurred by aviation security officials flying to long-haul destinations around the world for sensitive aviation security operations.</p><p> </p><p>Aside from the central Department, the vast majority otherwise of the business class air travel is incurred by the VCA and the MCA. However, for VCA the majority of overseas travel is chargeable to the VCA's clients and so any business class air travel spend by the VCA will result in only a minimal net cost to the taxpayer.</p><p> </p><p>Similarly, MCA’s Marine Surveyors are required to survey UK-registered ships on a regular basis wherever the ship may be at that time and they have to fly globally to those locations. The cost of the airfare is recovered as part of the fee paid by the shipping company for the regulatory work, so therefore any business class air travel by the MCA will result in only a minimal net cost to the taxpayer.</p><p> </p><p>With respect to first class rail travel, all central Department staff must travel standard class irrespective of grade, except under two specific circumstances - temporary or permanent disability and pregnancy related reasons.</p><p> </p><p>Over the four years in question, data is not available from either all parts of the Department or for all time periods. In addition, for the central Department for the years 2013/14 to 2015/16, due to the way that travel was booked at this time, it is not possible to obtain a complete record of spend. Therefore it is not possible to compare the spend data from year to year.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>For 2013/14, available information covering the central Department, DVLA, VCA, DSA, the MCA and Highways Agency is: Taxi spend = £169,052 (though no information is available for the MCA); first class rail travel = £33,873 and business class air travel = £243,170. No information is available for VOSA.</p><p> </p><p>For 2014/15, data is only available covering the first 8 months of the year except the central Department does have taxi spend data for 12 months. Data covering the central Department, DVLA, VCA, DSA, the MCA and the Highways Agency is: Taxi spend = £153,246 (though no information is available for the MCA); first class rail travel = £18,477 and business class air travel = £110,188. No information is available for VOSA.</p><p> </p><p>For 2015/16, data is mainly only available covering the last 4 months of the year due to a change in travel provider, except the DVLA does have 12 months of data for all spend and the central Department, VCA and MCA do have taxi spend data for 12 months. Data covering the central Department, DVLA and VCA is: Taxi spend = £182,099 (this also includes MCA spend); first class rail travel = £5,479 (no data available for the MCA); business class air travel = £167,420 (no data available for the MCA). No information is available for the DVSA and the Highways Agency is no longer an Executive Agency of DfT.</p><p> </p><p>For 2016/17, data is available for the full 12 months of the year for the central Department, DVLA, VCA and MCA: Taxi spend = £191,307; first class rail travel = £10,503; business class air travel = £1,155,965. No data is available for DVSA and the Highways Agency is no longer an Executive Agency of DfT.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Wealden answering member printed Ms Nusrat Ghani question first answered 15/01/2018 11:59:41 answering member 4460 label Biography information for Ms Nusrat Ghani
	tabling member	1506 label Biography information for Andrew Gwynne

819162

	registered interest
	date	09/01/2018
	answering body	Department for Transport
	answering dept id	27
	answering dept short name	Transport
	answering dept sort name	Transport
	hansard heading	Ports
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many minor ports across the UK are currently in operation.
	tabling member constituency	Southampton, Itchen
	tabling member printed	Royston Smith
	uin	121839
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/01/2018 answer text <p>There are currently 61 ports operating in the UK which the Department for Transport classifies as ‘minor’ for the purposes of the statistics it gathers.</p> answering member constituency Wealden answering member printed Ms Nusrat Ghani question first answered 15/01/2018 12:22:40 answering member 4460 label Biography information for Ms Nusrat Ghani
	tabling member	4478 label Biography information for Royston Smith

819995

	registered interest
	date	10/01/2018
	answering body	Department for Transport
	answering dept id	27
	answering dept short name	Transport
	answering dept sort name	Transport
	hansard heading	Silvertown Tunnel
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, when he expects the Silvertown crossing to be completed.
	tabling member constituency	East Ham
	tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
	uin	122067
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/01/2018 answer text <p>An application for a Developmental Consent Order for Silvertown Tunnel has been submitted by Transport for London and this is currently with the Secretary of State for a decision. The deadline for a decision is 10 May 2018. If consent is granted, it will be for Transport for London to decide timescales for the delivery of this scheme.</p> answering member constituency Wealden answering member printed Ms Nusrat Ghani question first answered 15/01/2018 12:31:16 answering member 4460 label Biography information for Ms Nusrat Ghani
	tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

816947

	registered interest
	date	05/01/2018
	answering body	Department for Transport
	answering dept id	27
	answering dept short name	Transport
	answering dept sort name	Transport
	hansard heading	High Speed 2 Line
	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 December 2017 to Question 120015 on High Speed 2 railway line, if he will name (a) all 12 applications made to the HS2 Community and Environment Fund, (b) the six successful applicants and (c) identify which of those applicants have accepted the terms and conditions.
	tabling member constituency	Chesham and Amersham
	tabling member printed	Dame Cheryl Gillan
	uin	121374
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/01/2018 answer text <p>As stated in the answer given by the then Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, the Hon Member for Blackpool North and Cleveleys (Paul Maynard) of 21 December 2017, it is anticipated that an announcement will be made in early 2018 with news of the first accepted awards made and their locations.</p> answering member constituency Wealden answering member printed Ms Nusrat Ghani question first answered 15/01/2018 12:35:39 answering member 4460 label Biography information for Ms Nusrat Ghani
	tabling member	18 label Biography information for Dame Cheryl Gillan