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	registered interest
	date	22/03/2024
	answering body	Department for Transport
	answering dept id	27
	answering dept short name	Transport
	answering dept sort name	Transport
	hansard heading	Blue Badge Scheme: Theft:
	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 blue badge thefts in the last 12 months.
	tabling member constituency	Brentford and Isleworth
	tabling member printed	Ruth Cadbury
	uin	20069
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/03/2024 answer text <p>The Department sets the legislation that governs the Blue Badge scheme and provides guidance for local authorities who are solely responsible for administering the scheme.</p><p> </p><p>Current legislation provides local authorities with the means to tackle abuse of the Blue Badge scheme locally, such as the power to retain and cancel badges found to be stolen.</p><p> </p><p>Data on the number of Blue Badges stolen in the last 12 months are not currently available. The latest published statistics show that in the year ending 31<sup>st</sup> March 2023, 1700 Blue Badges were reported stolen in England. The figures reflect cases that have been recorded in the Blue Badge Digital Service database. It is possible that not all instances of loss or theft will be reported and recorded, and therefore will not be included in these figures.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman grouped question UIN 20067 20068 question first answered 28/03/2024 14:10:22 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
	tabling member	4389 label Biography information for Ruth Cadbury

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	registered interest
	date	24/02/2020
	answering body	Department for Transport
	answering dept id	27
	answering dept short name	Transport
	answering dept sort name	Transport
	hansard heading	Railways: Repairs and Maintenance
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many rail improvement projects for expanding commuter services on single track sections of rail are (a) ongoing and (b) have been completed in the last 10 years.
	tabling member constituency	Rother Valley
	tabling member printed	Alexander Stafford
	uin	20069
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/03/2020 answer text <p>Network Rail's Enhancement Delivery Plans sets out funded schemes which are in the process of delivery as part of the Governments £10.4bn enhancement commitment to 2024 and the Department's Rail Network Enhancement Pipeline lists the schemes which are being evaluated for funding. Train operators in the UK are currently operating around 20 million miles a year more passenger services than in 2010/11, a number of which such as the North Cotswolds, Swindon-Kemble and Falmouth Docks lines use single track sections.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Daventry answering member printed Chris Heaton-Harris question first answered 03/03/2020 17:17:29 answering member 3977 label Biography information for Chris Heaton-Harris
	tabling member	4866 label Biography information for Alexander Stafford