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418494

	registered interest
	date	11/09/2015
	answering body	Department for Transport
	answering dept id	27
	answering dept short name	Transport
	answering dept sort name	Transport
	hansard heading	Gospel Oak-Barking Railway Line: Electrification
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what stage of the guide to railway investment projects process has the Barking to Gospel Oak electrification project reached; and whether a date has been agreed with stakeholders for reaching stage seven.
	tabling member constituency	Walthamstow
	tabling member printed	Stella Creasy
	uin	9959
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/09/2015 answer text <p>The core scheme of Gospel Oak to Barking electrification has now completed GRIP 3. Network Rail is working with stakeholders to deliver completion of works (GRIP 7) by June 2017 for this section. GRIP 3 work on the electrification of the linking lines from the core scheme to the docks and to the other London electrified lines is underway but has yet to complete.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 16/09/2015 14:45:05 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
	tabling member	4088 label Biography information for Stella Creasy

418247

	registered interest
	date	10/09/2015
	answering body	Department for Transport
	answering dept id	27
	answering dept short name	Transport
	answering dept sort name	Transport
	hansard heading	Railways: Tickets
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, when the Oyster ticketing system is planned to be extended to Gatwick Airport, Three Bridges, Crawley and Ifield railway stations.
	tabling member constituency	Crawley
	tabling member printed	Henry Smith
	uin	9881
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/09/2015 answer text <p>I remain absolutely committed to the introduction of Oyster Pay-As-You-Go from the current Oyster boundary to Gatwick Airport.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>I am in continued discussions with the Mayor of London, and officials from the Department, TfL and the operator are working hard to make it a reality. I will be announcing the timetable for the implementation of these changes shortly.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Oyster Pay As You Go can be a real benefit to rail customers and we want to ensure that such benefits reach as many people as possible, which is why we included the commitment in the franchise.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 17/09/2015 11:49:11 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
	tabling member	3960 label Biography information for Henry Smith

418332

	registered interest
	date	10/09/2015
	answering body	Department for Transport
	answering dept id	27
	answering dept short name	Transport
	answering dept sort name	Transport
	hansard heading	Railways: Expenditure
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, by what mechanisms he is permitted to reduce the Control Period 5 spending levels for the railway set by the Office of Rail and Road's Final Determination, published on 10 April 2014.
	tabling member constituency	Nottingham South
	tabling member printed	Lilian Greenwood
	uin	9872
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/09/2015 answer text <p>The periodic review 2013 settlement set the outputs and the funding requirement for Control Period 5 that Network Rail is required to deliver to. The Secretary of State has overall responsibility for administering two of Network Rail’s sources of cash: the network grant for England and Wales, which is set in line with the funding requirements set by the periodic review settlement, and the loan agreement signed on 4 July 2014. The Government remains committed to providing the funds agreed and seeing Network Rail’s ambitious programme delivered.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 15/09/2015 13:22:04 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
	tabling member	4029 label Biography information for Lilian Greenwood

418331

	registered interest
	date	10/09/2015
	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, what representations he has received on the potential safety implications of reducing Network Rail's Control Period 5 maintenance and renewals delivery volumes.
	tabling member constituency	Nottingham South
	tabling member printed	Lilian Greenwood
	uin	9871
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/09/2015 answer text <p>Network Rail is responsible for planning and delivering maintenance and renewals volumes in order to ensure a safe, reliable and efficient railway. In doing so it is monitored by the Office of Rail and Road (ORR), the health and safety regulator for the railway, which in its latest Health and Safety Report (published 21 July 2015) highlighted that Britain’s railways are now the safest in Europe, but warned that the industry cannot become complacent. In June 2015, ORR, reviewing Network Rail’s plans for the remainder of 2015-16, noted to the Department for Transport that whilst the current safety performance of the network is good, Network Rail had not been successful in delivering all of its maintenance and renewals volumes so far in Control Period 5 (CP5). Network Rail is currently in the process of updating its Delivery Plan for CP5 and ORR will feed into that process its comments on the safety, sustainability and efficiency of the revised plan.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 15/09/2015 13:08:06 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
	tabling member	4029 label Biography information for Lilian Greenwood

418330

	registered interest
	date	10/09/2015
	answering body	Department for Transport
	answering dept id	27
	answering dept short name	Transport
	answering dept sort name	Transport
	hansard heading	Railways: Fares
	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 overall cost to his Department of increasing the cost of regulated national rail fares in line with the retail price index between 2014 and 2020.
	tabling member constituency	Nottingham South
	tabling member printed	Lilian Greenwood
	uin	9870
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/09/2015 answer text <p>I refer the Hon Member to my answer of 3 June to the Hon Member for Newport West (Paul Flynn), UIN 95</p><p>(<a href="http://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-questions-answers/?page=1&amp;max=20&amp;questiontype=AllQuestions&amp;house=commons%2clords&amp;member=545&amp;uin=95" target="_blank">http://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-questions-answers/?page=1&amp;max=20&amp;questiontype=AllQuestions&amp;house=commons%2clords&amp;member=545&amp;uin=95</a>).</p><p> </p><p /> <p> </p><p /> <p> </p><p /> <p> </p><p /> <p> </p><p /> <p>In addition I can confirm that we understand that passengers are concerned about the cost of rail fares. That is why we have capped regulated fare increases at RPI for the past two years and will continue to do so for the lifetime of this Parliament. This has resulted in wages rising faster than fares for the first time since 2002. We have also reduced the non-cumulative flex from 5 per cent introduced by Labour to 0 per cent in 2015. 　We will continue this policy for the lifetime of this Parliament.</p><p /> <p> </p><p /> <p> </p><p /> <p> </p><p /> <p>The Government will continue to place passengers at the heart of our rail policy alongside the record investment of £38.5 billion.</p><p /> <p> </p><p /> <p> </p><p /> <p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 15/09/2015 13:37:17 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
	tabling member	4029 label Biography information for Lilian Greenwood

418334

	registered interest
	date	10/09/2015
	answering body	Department for Transport
	answering dept id	27
	answering dept short name	Transport
	answering dept sort name	Transport
	hansard heading	Directly Operated Railways
	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 4 November 2014 to Question 212595, when he plans for his Department's review of the future activities of Directly Operated Railways to be concluded.
	tabling member constituency	Nottingham South
	tabling member printed	Lilian Greenwood
	uin	9868
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/09/2015 answer text <p>The Department is currently considering the long term options for securing provision to discharge the Secretary of State’s duties under Section 30 of the Railways Act 1993.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>In the meantime the existing management team at Directly Operated Railways are fully engaged in supporting the Department on the Franchising Direct Awards Programme. The focus of their work is to ensure that the company is ready to step in as the Secretary of State’s operator of last resort should any of the remaining Direct Awards fail to reach a successful commercial conclusion.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The company is also on standby to mobilise an operator of last resort company in the event that an existing rail franchise is terminated and is not immediately replaced.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 15/09/2015 12:53:35 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
	tabling member	4029 label Biography information for Lilian Greenwood

348408

	registered interest
	date	03/06/2015
	answering body	Department for Transport
	answering dept id	27
	answering dept short name	Transport
	answering dept sort name	Transport
	hansard heading	Network Rail
	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 1 June 2015 to Question 161, what estimate his Department has made of the efficient cost of those Control Period 5 projects that have completed the enhancement cost adjustment mechanism process; and what the estimated cost was of those projects before they began that process.
	tabling member constituency	Nottingham South
	tabling member printed	Lilian Greenwood
	uin	985
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/06/2015 answer text <p>The Office of Rail and Road (ORR) is responsible for determining the efficient cost of Network Rail’s CP5 enhancement schemes, not the Department for Transport.</p><p> </p><p>As explained in my previous response to the Honourable Member for Nottingham South, the ORR publishes quarterly updates on the enhancements cost adjustment mechanism (ECAM) process. This includes information about efficiencies identified on specific schemes through the ECAM process. For example, the ORR recently published ECAM findings on Reading Station area redevelopment, Great Western electrification and Midland Main Line electrification on its website:</p><p> </p><p><a href="http://orr.gov.uk/what-and-how-we-regulate/regulation-of-network-rail/how-we-regulate-network-rail/control-period-5-cp5/cp5-delivery-plan" target="_blank">http://orr.gov.uk/what-and-how-we-regulate/regulation-of-network-rail/how-we-regulate-network-rail/control-period-5-cp5/cp5-delivery-plan</a>.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 08/06/2015 11:12:42 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
	tabling member	4029 label Biography information for Lilian Greenwood

418076

	registered interest
	date	09/09/2015
	answering body	Department for Transport
	answering dept id	27
	answering dept short name	Transport
	answering dept sort name	Transport
	hansard heading	Railways: Overcrowding
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps he is taking to alleviate passenger overcrowding on trains.
	tabling member constituency	Coventry North East
	tabling member printed	Colleen Fletcher
	uin	9778
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/09/2015 answer text <p>Increased capacity is being delivered through our record investment in the railway and programmes such as Intercity Express, Crossrail and Thameslink which add more, longer and newer trains to the railway network which will help in reducing overcrowding. The franchising system is also delivering capacity increases across the country, including 150 new carriages on South West Trains and 68 new carriages on c2c.　 The new Northern and TransPennine Express franchises will deliver an increase in peak capacity into the major northern cities by more than a third.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>In addition, operators such as First Great Western are taking steps to reduce overcrowding by removing　some first class carriages and installing additional standard seats. With record passenger numbers across the country we expect operators to keep putting forward innovative proposals to reduce overcrowding.</p><p /> <p> </p><p /> <p> </p><p /> <p /><p /> <p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 17/09/2015 13:09:39 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
	tabling member	4378 label Biography information for Colleen Fletcher

418130

	registered interest
	date	09/09/2015
	answering body	Department for Transport
	answering dept id	27
	answering dept short name	Transport
	answering dept sort name	Transport
	hansard heading	Midland Main Line
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether the four-tracking of the Midland Main Line from Bedford to Kettering and Corby is contingent upon the recommendations of the Hendy Review.
	tabling member constituency	Nottingham South
	tabling member printed	Lilian Greenwood
	uin	9751
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/09/2015 answer text <p>Kettering to Corby which is part 4 and part 2 tracking is currently in full implementation. Bedford to Kettering, in common with all rail projects, is subject to the recommendations of the Hendy Review which is due to report to the Secretary of State for Transport in the autumn.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 14/09/2015 14:08:17 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
	tabling member	4029 label Biography information for Lilian Greenwood

418131

	registered interest
	date	09/09/2015
	answering body	Department for Transport
	answering dept id	27
	answering dept short name	Transport
	answering dept sort name	Transport
	hansard heading	Channel Tunnel
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what support he has provided to rail freight operators as a result of the recent disruption to Channel Tunnel services.
	tabling member constituency	Nottingham South
	tabling member printed	Lilian Greenwood
	uin	9750
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/09/2015 answer text <p>A number of measures are being put in place including the provision of secure fencing, increased security sweeps and extra security staff for the Fréthun freight yard. The fencing and extra security staff have been financed by HMG. There has also been support for the rail freight operators in the form of regular liaison meetings between the operators, Eurotunnel and Government which has facilitated operational measures such as daytime running at preferential rates.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 14/09/2015 14:33:23 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
	tabling member	4029 label Biography information for Lilian Greenwood