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43575

registered interest
date	17/03/2014
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, for how many days the (a) Colne to Blackpool South and (b) Skipton to Leeds lines were closed in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Pendle
tabling member printed	Andrew Stephenson
uin	192427
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/03/2014 answer text This is not information that is held by the Department for Transport. This is a matter for Network Rail, who own and operate Britain's rail network. answering member constituency Wimbledon answering member printed Stephen Hammond question first answered 24/03/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1585 label Biography information for Stephen Hammond
tabling member	4044 label Biography information for Andrew Stephenson

60770

registered interest
date	09/06/2014
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Motor Vehicles: Glass
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many vehicles have been found to be in breach of rules about tinted windows in (a) England, (b) the North West and (c) Lancashire in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Pendle
tabling member printed	Andrew Stephenson
uin	199661
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/06/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>The Department has information broken down relating to the enforcement by the Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA) for the most recent year. The following prohibitions were found in the year to March 2014, a) 710 in England, b) 62 in the North West and c) 37 in Lancashire. National totals for the previous 4 years were, 2013 – 720, 2012 – 663, 2011 – 1617, 2010 – 2364. The Department does not have the Police data for this offence at this time. Enforcement of Construction and Use regulations is a matter for both DVSA and the police.</p> answering member constituency Wimbledon answering member printed Stephen Hammond question first answered 16/06/2014 15:43:19 answering member 1585 label Biography information for Stephen Hammond
tabling member	4044 label Biography information for Andrew Stephenson

60771

registered interest
date	09/06/2014
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Motor Vehicles: Registration
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many fixed penalty notices were issued to drivers of vehicles registered in another country that should have been but were not registered in the UK in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Pendle
tabling member printed	Andrew Stephenson
uin	199650
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/06/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>Failure to register a vehicle following the six-month exemption period is not an offence for which a fixed penalty notice can be issued. The Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency instead writes to keepers of these vehicles offering them an out of court settlement where it appears that an offence has been committed, so that the matter may be resolved without court proceedings. The table below shows the amount of these out of court settlement letters issued in the last five financial years.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>YEAR</p><p> </p></td><td><p>NUMBER OF OCS ISSUED</p><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>09/10</p><p> </p></td><td><p>108</p><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>10/11</p><p> </p></td><td><p>83</p><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>11/12</p><p> </p></td><td><p>192</p><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>12/13</p><p> </p></td><td><p>59</p><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>13/14</p><p> </p></td><td><p>84</p><p> </p></td></tr></tbody></table><p /> <p /> <p> </p><p /> <p> </p><p /> <p /><p /> <p>Since April 2014, 237 out of court settlement letters have been issued.</p><p /> answering member constituency Wimbledon answering member printed Stephen Hammond question first answered 16/06/2014 15:38:12 answering member 1585 label Biography information for Stephen Hammond
tabling member	4044 label Biography information for Andrew Stephenson

60772

registered interest
date	09/06/2014
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Motor Vehicles: Registration
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps his Department has taken to improve the reliability of tracking methodologies for foreign (a) registered and (b) unregistered vehicles in the UK.
tabling member constituency	Pendle
tabling member printed	Andrew Stephenson
uin	199651
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/06/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>The Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA) receives information on foreign registered vehicles from the police and other enforcement agencies, as well as from members of the public. Other ways of obtaining this information are currently being explored.</p><p> </p><p>The DVLA has been working with the police to pilot a new enforcement process. This involves the DVLA providing the police forces with registration numbers of foreign registered vehicles which may have overstayed the six- month exemption period and where the keepers have not complied with UK requirements. This information enables the four police forces involved to seize and impound vehicles that have overstayed, where appropriate. If the pilot is successful, the DVLA will explore the potential for extending it to more police forces.</p><p> </p><p>The DVLA is also working with other government agencies to establish what other data might be used to track and identify over staying foreign registered vehicles.</p> answering member constituency Wimbledon answering member printed Stephen Hammond question first answered 16/06/2014 15:39:03 answering member 1585 label Biography information for Stephen Hammond
tabling member	4044 label Biography information for Andrew Stephenson

60773

registered interest
date	09/06/2014
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Motor Vehicles: Registration
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, for how many vehicles registered in another country applications were made to the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Authority to register them in the UK in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Pendle
tabling member printed	Andrew Stephenson
uin	199649
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/06/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>The table below shows figures for the amount of vehicles registered by the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA) that were previously registered elsewhere between 2009 and 2012.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><strong><strong><strong><strong></strong></strong></strong></strong><p>YEAR</p><strong><strong><strong><strong></strong></strong></strong></strong><p> </p></td><td><strong><strong><strong><strong></strong></strong></strong></strong><p>NUMBER OF VEHICLES</p><strong><strong><strong><strong></strong></strong></strong></strong><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2009</p><p> </p></td><td><p>65,060</p><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010</p><p> </p></td><td><p>62,373</p><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011</p><p> </p></td><td><p>58,379</p><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012</p><p> </p></td><td><p>57,910</p><p> </p></td></tr></tbody></table><p /> <p /> <p> </p><p /> <p> </p><p /> <p>Since 2013 the way that certain vehicle transactions are processed has changed and the data gathered about foreign registered vehicles is no longer readily available. In 2013, the DVLA processed 99,168 applications to register new and previously registered imported vehicles.</p><p /> <p> </p><p /> answering member constituency Wimbledon answering member printed Stephen Hammond question first answered 16/06/2014 15:36:37 answering member 1585 label Biography information for Stephen Hammond
tabling member	4044 label Biography information for Andrew Stephenson

76532

registered interest
date	07/07/2014
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Motor Vehicles: Registration
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what recent progress his Department has made on the pilot of a new enforcement process for foreign-registered vehicles that have overstayed.
tabling member constituency	Pendle
tabling member printed	Andrew Stephenson
uin	904754
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/07/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>After a successful initial six-week period, the pilot of a new enforcement process has been extended to August. There has been very positive feedback from the police forces involved. The Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency is continuing to work with the police to develop a more effective approach for dealing with foreign registered vehicles that have overstayed.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Wimbledon answering member printed Stephen Hammond question first answered 10/07/2014 13:39:32 answering member 1585 label Biography information for Stephen Hammond
tabling member	4044 label Biography information for Andrew Stephenson

224903

registered interest
date	02/03/2015
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Rolling Stock
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what plans he has to introduce new rolling stock on the rail network.
tabling member constituency	Pendle
tabling member printed	Andrew Stephenson
uin	907873
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/03/2015 answer text <p>Passengers will see significant increases in rolling stock thanks to the Government’s investment and the franchising programme.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>More than 3,700 new carriages will be in service across the country by the end of 2019. In addition, the Northern Invitation To Tender clearly requires improved rolling stock, the retirement of Pacers by 2020 and 120 new carriages suitable for use on non-electrified routes on the Northern network.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 05/03/2015 13:18:28 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
tabling member	4044 label Biography information for Andrew Stephenson

228657

registered interest
date	19/03/2015
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Road Traffic Control: Lancashire
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps he has taken to reduce traffic congestion in Lancashire since 2010.
tabling member constituency	Pendle
tabling member printed	Andrew Stephenson
uin	228333
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/03/2015 answer text <p>On 29 January the Government announced a £17.2m expansion of the Growth Deal with the Lancashire Local Enterprise Partnership. We understand the LEP intends to use around £1.85m of that additional funding to support transport interventions to support growth. This is in addition to the £179.4m Local Growth Fund support that we allocated to local transport improvements in last July’s Growth Deal with the LEP, supporting delivery of 16 transport projects across Lancashire, including the Burnley to Pendle Growth Corridor.</p><p> </p><p>This funding is in addition to £49.9m integrated transport block allocated to the 3 Lancashire transport authorities (Blackpool, Blackburn with Darwen and Lancashire County Council) since the 2010 Spending Review, together with £98.6m for highways maintenance. In addition, we have announced a further £55.2m integrated transport block funding and £136.8m highways maintenance funding for these authorities covering the period 2015/16 to 2020/21. We have also given the go ahead to two local major schemes in Lancashire, the Heysham Link Road and Pennine Reach, both of which are under construction and have been supported by over £142 million of Government funding. A further £5.7 million local pinch point funding is addressing local congestion hotspots in Blackpool, Blackburn and on the A582 near Preston.</p><p> </p><p>The Government launched the Roads Investment Strategy on 1 December 2014. It contains firm proposals to deliver the A585 Windy Harbour to Skippool Bypass, which will tackle congestion on the main route to Fleetwood, as well as a new Junction 2 on the M55, to support links between Lancashire’s Enterprise Zone sites at Samlesbury and Warton as well as support future housing growth in Preston.</p><p> </p><p>The Highways Agency is due to shortly complete over £14.3 million pinch point fund investment to relieve traffic congestion at four hotspots in Lancashire on the A585 - Windy Harbour Junction and Bourne Way to West Drive, M6 junction 32 and M55 junction 1, and M65 junction 5.</p><p> </p><p>The Government and Lancashire County Council are also investing heavily in improvement of the rail network in Lancashire, including the electrification of lines between Blackpool, Preston and Manchester, the re-opening of the Todmorden Curve, a new station at Buckshaw Parkway and a commitment for the new franchises for Northern and TransPennine Express to deliver new trains, more capacity and replace Pacers.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Scarborough and Whitby answering member printed Mr Robert Goodwill question first answered 25/03/2015 11:41:50 answering member 1562 label Biography information for Sir Robert Goodwill
tabling member	4044 label Biography information for Andrew Stephenson

228658

registered interest
date	19/03/2015
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Transport: Pendle
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps he has taken to improve transport links between Pendle constituency and (a) Manchester and (b) London since 2010.
tabling member constituency	Pendle
tabling member printed	Andrew Stephenson
uin	228334
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/03/2015 answer text <p>Passengers from stations on the Colne branch in the Pendle constituency, travelling to Manchester will, May 2015, benefit from additional connections to new services to Manchester via the Todmorden Curve, whose reinstatement was funded by Lancashire County Council but with support from the Regional Growth Fund. They will also, from 2016, benefit from wider improvements to Northern rail services following refranchising, including the replacement of the Pacer fleet.</p><p> </p><p>Passengers connecting to London via Preston have benefited from additional capacity on the Virgin West Coast services as a result of the 106 extra carriages introduced in 2012.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>On the highways side, the Lancashire Growth Deal also includes the Burnley‑Pendle Growth Corridor, a project targeting junction improvements and other transport improvements to release additional site capacity, and enable quicker movement of goods, services and people through this key Economic Corridor. This is focussed on the M65 which has also had Highways Agency support for the M65 Junction 5 improvements. Works are scheduled to take place between January 2015 and March 2015. The M65 links East Lancashire to the M6 for journeys south to London.</p><p> </p><p>The Highways Agency have also completed and started construction on a number major improvements on the M6, M60, M62 and the M1 that will improve journeys to Manchester and London.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Scarborough and Whitby answering member printed Mr Robert Goodwill question first answered 25/03/2015 11:52:39 answering member 1562 label Biography information for Sir Robert Goodwill
tabling member	4044 label Biography information for Andrew Stephenson

228659

registered interest
date	19/03/2015
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Cycleways: Pendle
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how much has been spent on cycling improvements in Pendle constituency in each year since 2010.
tabling member constituency	Pendle
tabling member printed	Andrew Stephenson
uin	228383
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/03/2015 answer text <p>We do not hold funding information for Pendle Borough Council. However, in 2012 the department for Transport awarded Lancashire County Council £5m Local Sustainable Transport fund for their ‘Targeting key growth corridors’ project. The project comprised a package of sustainable transport measures which supports economic growth and brings forward investment in a green way.</p><p> </p><p>Elements of the package include:</p><p>· Network Optimisation to smooth traffic flows and improve journey time reliability</p><p>· Enabling Sustainable Travel to remove barriers, allowing more people to travel sustainably</p><p>· Promoting Smarter Travel to inform citizens, businesses, universities and schools of the options available to them and to facilitate behavioural change.</p><p> </p><p>These measures are strongly interlinked and together facilitate green economic growth and development by providing fit for purpose transport options.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Scarborough and Whitby answering member printed Mr Robert Goodwill question first answered 25/03/2015 12:02:47 answering member 1562 label Biography information for Sir Robert Goodwill
tabling member	4044 label Biography information for Andrew Stephenson