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1567874

registered interest
date	18/01/2023
answering body	Wales Office
answering dept id	28
answering dept short name	Wales
answering dept sort name	Wales
hansard heading	Transport: Infrastructure
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, what recent discussions he has had with the Secretary of State for Transport on transport infrastructure between Wales and the South West of England.
tabling member constituency	Torbay
tabling member printed	Kevin Foster
uin	903091
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/01/2023 answer text <p>I have regular discussions with the Transport Secretary on a range of transport measures, including infrastructure between Wales and the South West of England. Sadly, the Welsh Government is against the M4 Relief Road which would be of huge benefit to the region.</p> answering member constituency Monmouth answering member printed David T C Davies question first answered 18/01/2023 14:09:22 answering member 1545 label Biography information for David T C Davies
tabling member	4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster

1020748

registered interest
date	06/12/2018
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Transport: Infrastructure
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much the UK spent as a proportion of GDP on transport infrastructure in 2017-18; and what assessment he has made of the adequacy of the proportion of UK GDP spent on transport infrastructure compared with the average proportion spent by (a) the G7 and (b) the EU.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Hodge Hill
tabling member printed	Liam Byrne
uin	199787
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/12/2018 answer text <p>In 2017-18, the UK’s public sector expenditure was £20.5 billion on transport capital investment. This is roughly 1% of GDP – a 0.25 percentage point increase on 4 years ago.</p><p> </p><p>Reliable international comparisons for transport infrastructure spend are difficult due to data availability. Within the UK, the devolved administrations also have responsibilities for transport investment.</p><p> </p><p>However, this government is building on this investment with the £28.8 billion National Roads Fund announced at Budget to invest in English roads, £47.9 billion for the railway in England and Wales in Control Period 6 and undertaking one of the largest engineering projects in Europe – HS2.</p> answering member constituency South West Norfolk answering member printed Elizabeth Truss question first answered 11/12/2018 14:33:34 answering member 4097 label Biography information for Elizabeth Truss
tabling member	1171 label Biography information for Liam Byrne

1185844

registered interest
date	17/03/2020
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Transport: Infrastructure
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what fiscal steps he is taking to improve local transport infrastructure.
tabling member constituency	Rother Valley
tabling member printed	Alexander Stafford
uin	30874
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/03/2020 answer text <p>The Government is committed to improving the transport links that people rely on every day.</p><p> </p><p>The Budget announced a new England-wide Potholes Fund that will provide £500 million a year, resulting in a 50% increase to local road maintenance budgets in 2020‑21. Alongside this, the Budget also announced the development of 15 local road upgrades across the country.</p><p> </p><p>It also confirmed over £1 billion worth of allocations to shovel-ready local transport upgrades across nine city regions through the Transforming Cities Fund, and the intention is to agree long-term transport settlements with eight elected Mayors starting in 2022-23 worth £4.2bn.</p><p> </p><p>These commitments build on the Prime Minister’s announcement of £5 billion for buses and cycling.</p> answering member constituency North East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Steve Barclay question first answered 25/03/2020 14:55:27 answering member 4095 label Biography information for Steve Barclay
tabling member	4866 label Biography information for Alexander Stafford

1186392

registered interest
date	19/03/2020
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Transport: Infrastructure
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what fiscal steps he is taking to improve local transport infrastructure.
tabling member constituency	Derbyshire Dales
tabling member printed	Miss Sarah Dines
uin	901712
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/03/2020 answer text <p>The Government is committed to improving the transport links that people rely on every day.</p><p> </p><p>The Budget announced a new England-wide Potholes Fund that will provide £500 million a year, resulting in a 50% increase to local road maintenance budgets in 2020‑21. Alongside this, the Budget also announced the development of 15 local road upgrades across the country.</p><p> </p><p>It also confirmed over £1 billion worth of allocations to shovel-ready local transport upgrades across nine city regions through the Transforming Cities Fund, and the intention is to agree long-term transport settlements with eight elected Mayors starting in 2022-23 worth £4.2bn.</p><p> </p><p>These commitments build on the Prime Minister’s announcement of £5 billion for buses and cycling.</p> answering member constituency North East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Steve Barclay question first answered 24/03/2020 17:00:24 answering member 4095 label Biography information for Steve Barclay
tabling member	4816 label Biography information for Miss Sarah Dines

1280338

registered interest
date	26/01/2021
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Transport: Infrastructure
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	What fiscal steps his Department is taking to improve transport connectivity throughout the UK.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Northfield
tabling member printed	Gary Sambrook
uin	911380
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/01/2021 answer text <p>Improving transport connectivity throughout the UK is vital to the Government’s levelling up agenda. That is why at the Spending Review, the Government announced a new £4 billion Levelling Up Fund to invest in local infrastructure that has a visible impact on people and their communities. This is in addition to already announced transport investment through intra-city transport settlements, the Transforming Cities Fund and RIS2.</p><p> </p><p>Throughout the pandemic, the Government has also made over £12 billion available to transport services across the UK.</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 26/01/2021 15:55:09 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	4760 label Biography information for Gary Sambrook

384768

registered interest
date	22/06/2015
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Transport: Infrastructure
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will ensure that the National Infrastructure Plan of 2014 is implemented in full.
tabling member constituency	North Tyneside
tabling member printed	Mary Glindon
uin	3453
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/06/2015 answer text <p>The Government has committed to delivering the National Infrastructure Plan alongside a commitment to invest over £100 billion of public spending over the course of this Parliament.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Chelsea and Fulham answering member printed Greg Hands question first answered 25/06/2015 15:12:02 answering member 1526 label Biography information for Greg Hands
tabling member	4126 label Biography information for Mary Glindon

425325

registered interest
date	02/11/2015
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Transport: Infrastructure
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to his Department's press release, Infrastructure at heart of Spending Review as Chancellor launches National Infrastructure Commission, published on 30 October 2015, what transport projects are included in the £100 billion infrastructure spending; and what the projected spend on those projects is in each year to 2020-21.
tabling member constituency	Nottingham South
tabling member printed	Lilian Greenwood
uin	14448
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/11/2015 answer text <p>The £100 billion of infrastructure spending includes publically-funded infrastructure projects and programmes in the National Infrastructure Pipeline. The Pipeline is a strategic view of economic infrastructure investment.</p><p>Transport projects and programmes include:</p><ul><li>Network Rail’s Control Period 5 (2014-2019), currently being re-planned by the Chairman, Sir Peter Hendy</li><li>Highway England’s Road Investment Strategy (2015-2020)</li><li>High Speed 2</li><li>Transport for London’s centrally-funded investment programme</li><li>Centrally-funded Local Authority transport projects <br> <p>Details of the projected annual spend to 2020-21 can be found in the most recent refresh of the Pipeline, published in July 2015.</li></ul> answering member constituency Chelsea and Fulham answering member printed Greg Hands question first answered 05/11/2015 16:26:38 answering member 1526 label Biography information for Greg Hands
tabling member	4029 label Biography information for Lilian Greenwood

1050441

registered interest
date	29/01/2019
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Transport: Infrastructure
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how much funding (a) in total and (b) per head of population has been allocated to transport infrastructure in each region in each of the last five years for which figures are available.
tabling member constituency	Warrington North
tabling member printed	Helen Jones
uin	213949
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/02/2019 answer text <p>Figures on public sector expenditure at a regional level are part of the Government’s Country and Regional Analysis (CRA) statistics.</p><p> </p><p>The latest CRA statistics, published by HM Treasury on 20th November 2018, include total public expenditure on transport per capita on a regional basis from 2013-14 up to 2017-18, and are published at:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/country-and-regional-analysis" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/country-and-regional-analysis</a>.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>The statistics include spend on transport by all public sector organisations including the Department for Transport, Local Authorities, Public Corporations (in the case of transport, this is mainly spend by London Underground) and other Government Departments including devolved administrations.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>When comparing expenditure across regions a number of factors should be considered. For example, when expenditure is presented on a “per head of population”(or “per capita”) basis, it does not account for the pressure that large numbers of commuters and visitors from outside of a region can add to the transport networks. In addition, larger built-up areas tend to make greater use of mass public transport systems, though these will generate fares income which contributes to their operating costs.</p><p> </p><p>Statistics for public sector capital expenditure by region are given in Table 1 below. Table 2 provides the equivalent statistics per capita. Capital expenditure has been used as a proxy for spending on infrastructure specifically, but may include some capital investment beyond transport infrastructure projects.</p><p> </p><p><strong>Table 1: Capital spending on all transport, by all public sector bodies (<em>£millions nominal)</em></strong></p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Region</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2013-14</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2014-15</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2015-16<sup>1</sup></strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2016-17</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2017-18</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>East of England</p></td><td><p>1,034</p></td><td><p>1,176</p></td><td><p>1,410</p></td><td><p>1,427</p></td><td><p>1,842</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>East Midlands</p></td><td><p>597</p></td><td><p>746</p></td><td><p>795</p></td><td><p>664</p></td><td><p>743</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>London</p></td><td><p>4,022</p></td><td><p>4,549</p></td><td><p>5,335</p></td><td><p>5,770</p></td><td><p>6,519</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>North East</p></td><td><p>323</p></td><td><p>406</p></td><td><p>521</p></td><td><p>512</p></td><td><p>512</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>North West</p></td><td><p>1,136</p></td><td><p>1,393</p></td><td><p>1,824</p></td><td><p>1,807</p></td><td><p>2,930</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>South East</p></td><td><p>1,432</p></td><td><p>1,542</p></td><td><p>1,968</p></td><td><p>2,121</p></td><td><p>2,188</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>South West</p></td><td><p>662</p></td><td><p>803</p></td><td><p>1,011</p></td><td><p>1,169</p></td><td><p>1,110</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>West Midlands</p></td><td><p>804</p></td><td><p>1,087</p></td><td><p>1,329</p></td><td><p>1,311</p></td><td><p>1,783</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Yorkshire and the Humber</p></td><td><p>874</p></td><td><p>1,084</p></td><td><p>1,335</p></td><td><p>1,129</p></td><td><p>1,009</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Northern Ireland</p></td><td><p>242</p></td><td><p>261</p></td><td><p>162</p></td><td><p>310</p></td><td><p>295</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Scotland</p></td><td><p>1,345</p></td><td><p>1,459</p></td><td><p>1,473</p></td><td><p>1,717</p></td><td><p>1,986</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Wales</p></td><td><p>556</p></td><td><p>578</p></td><td><p>657</p></td><td><p>617</p></td><td><p>687</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p><em><sup> </sup></em></p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong>Table 2: Capital spending, on all transport, by all public sector bodies, per capita <em>(£s nominal)</em></strong></p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Region</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2013-14</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2014-15</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2015-16<sup>1</sup></strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2016-17</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2017-18</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>East of England</p></td><td><p>174</p></td><td><p>195</p></td><td><p>232</p></td><td><p>233</p></td><td><p>299</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>East Midlands</p></td><td><p>130</p></td><td><p>161</p></td><td><p>170</p></td><td><p>140</p></td><td><p>156</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>London</p></td><td><p>478</p></td><td><p>533</p></td><td><p>616</p></td><td><p>658</p></td><td><p>739</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>North East</p></td><td><p>124</p></td><td><p>155</p></td><td><p>198</p></td><td><p>194</p></td><td><p>194</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>North West</p></td><td><p>160</p></td><td><p>195</p></td><td><p>254</p></td><td><p>250</p></td><td><p>404</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>South East</p></td><td><p>163</p></td><td><p>174</p></td><td><p>220</p></td><td><p>235</p></td><td><p>241</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>South West</p></td><td><p>123</p></td><td><p>148</p></td><td><p>185</p></td><td><p>212</p></td><td><p>200</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>West Midlands</p></td><td><p>142</p></td><td><p>190</p></td><td><p>231</p></td><td><p>226</p></td><td><p>304</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Yorkshire and the Humber</p></td><td><p>164</p></td><td><p>202</p></td><td><p>248</p></td><td><p>208</p></td><td><p>185</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Northern Ireland</p></td><td><p>132</p></td><td><p>142</p></td><td><p>87</p></td><td><p>166</p></td><td><p>158</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Scotland</p></td><td><p>253</p></td><td><p>273</p></td><td><p>274</p></td><td><p>318</p></td><td><p>366</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Wales</p></td><td><p>180</p></td><td><p>187</p></td><td><p>212</p></td><td><p>198</p></td><td><p>220</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p><em><sup> </sup></em></p><p><em><sup>1</sup></em><em>Due to the reclassification of Network Rail into the public sector from 2015-16, care should be taken when making historical comparisons.</em></p><p><em>Source: </em><em><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/country-and-regional-analysis-2017" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/country-and-regional-analysis-2017</a></em></p><p> </p><p>Total capital expenditure is prone to large year-on-year fluctuations as major projects are completed and funding to new projects begins. Large transport projects tend to require large sums of capital expenditure during construction, but deliver benefits for many years into the future. Consideration of this must be given when making year-on-year comparisons.</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 04/02/2019 17:40:56 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	432 label Biography information for Helen Jones

1064313

registered interest
date	20/02/2019
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Transport: Infrastructure
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 potential merits of promoting regional economic growth through the supply chain of large infrastructure projects.
tabling member constituency	Belfast East
tabling member printed	Gavin Robinson
uin	223794
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/02/2019 answer text <p>As set out in the Transport Investment Strategy, rebalancing is a key priority for the Department, and the Government is investing to ensure that its benefits are realised across the country.</p><p>The Department's Rebalancing Toolkit is designed to help authors of Strategic Cases assess how a programme or project fits with the objective of spreading growth across the country. In addition, the Procuring for Growth Balanced Scorecard, which is designed to help ensure that major government procurements have a positive impact on economic growth, forms part of the development of the Commercial Cases for our major projects.</p><p>The Department's major projects also hold extensive supplier engagement programmes and these are often regionally based. For example, HS2 Ltd has engaged with over 5,000 businesses, from every corner of the UK, to promote HS2 supply chain opportunities. They have supported or hosted well over 100 events in the past three years alone, including a roadshow of events in 11 UK cities, including in Belfast.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 25/02/2019 11:39:09 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	4360 label Biography information for Gavin Robinson

1123918

registered interest
date	30/04/2019
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Transport: Infrastructure
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what progress the Government has made on improving transport infrastructure in areas with a high number of new build homes.
tabling member constituency	North Warwickshire
tabling member printed	Craig Tracey
uin	249341
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/05/2019 answer text <p>The Government has invested £1.2bn through the Housing Infrastructure Fund to support housing and further announcements through this £5.5bn fund are expected later this year. A significant number of HIF bids include transport infrastructure.</p><p>The Government is also investing in transport supporting new home construction through the Transforming Cities Fund, Major Road Network, and projects in the Oxford-Cambridge Arc, and it is promoting integrated housing and transport planning, for example through the revised National Planning Policy Framework.</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 08/05/2019 15:20:27 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	4509 label Biography information for Craig Tracey