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437234

	registered interest
	date	10/12/2015
	answering body	Department for Transport
	answering dept id	27
	answering dept short name	Transport
	answering dept sort name	Transport
	hansard heading	Railways: North of England
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how Rail North will work with existing transport bodies in the area in which it operates.
	tabling member constituency	Stalybridge and Hyde
	tabling member printed	Jonathan Reynolds
	uin	19653
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/12/2015 answer text <p>Rail North consists of Rail North Ltd (RNL) a company limited by guarantee and the Association of Rail North Partner Authorities (&quot;the Association&quot;).The Association consists of 29 local transport authorities (including combined authorities and PTEs, county councils and unitary district councils). Its main function is to develop and oversee the implementation of a long-term rail strategy for the North; it also acts as a forum for liaison with Transport for the North on rail issues.</p><br /><p>All member authorities of the Association are members of RNL, which is run by a Board of eleven elected councillors appointed by the member authorities on a geographical basis. However, important strategic and financial issues require the approval of the membership.These governance arrangements therefore provide all 29 local transport authorities a full opportunity to engage with Rail North on important rail issues affecting their area.</p> answering member constituency Harrogate and Knaresborough answering member printed Andrew Jones question first answered 17/12/2015 11:18:32 answering member 3996 label Biography information for Andrew Jones
	tabling member	4119 label Biography information for Jonathan Reynolds

972337

	registered interest
	date	12/09/2018
	answering body	Department for Transport
	answering dept id	27
	answering dept short name	Transport
	answering dept sort name	Transport
	hansard heading	Railways: North of England
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many days (a) Northern and (b) Transpennine Express have achieved their performance targets since the start of its franchise in April 2016.
	tabling member constituency	Stalybridge and Hyde
	tabling member printed	Jonathan Reynolds
	uin	174046
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/10/2018 answer text <p>The performance benchmarks for both Northern and TransPennine Express are calculated on a 4-weekly period based on a moving annual average rather than assessed against individual days.</p><p> </p><p>There is a re-benchmarking process currently underway to assess the impact on the franchisees’ performance regimes of late the delivery of infrastructure against that assumed in their bids. Once this exercise has been completed, the Department will be able to assess how Northern and TransPennine Express have performed against their targets.</p> answering member constituency Orpington answering member printed Joseph Johnson question first answered 15/10/2018 10:46:28 answering member 4039 label Biography information for Lord Johnson of Marylebone
	tabling member	4119 label Biography information for Jonathan Reynolds

63417

	registered interest
	date	23/06/2014
	answering body	Department for Transport
	answering dept id	27
	answering dept short name	Transport
	answering dept sort name	Transport
	hansard heading	Railways: North of England
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many of the current fleet of rolling stock operated by franchise holders on the (a) TransPennine and (b) Northern lines are scheduled for withdrawal from service before February 2016.
	tabling member constituency	Wansbeck
	tabling member printed	Ian Lavery
	uin	201789
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/06/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>The lease of nine Class 170 trains (18 carriages) by TransPennine Express ends in May 2015. The rolling stock owner reached a commercial deal with Chiltern Railways for the nine trains to transfer to Chiltern Railways from that time.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Northern Rail has leases in place for all its current fleet of trains through to the end of the current franchise in February 2016.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Wimbledon answering member printed Stephen Hammond question first answered 30/06/2014 15:55:37 answering member 1585 label Biography information for Stephen Hammond
	tabling member	4139 label Biography information for Ian Lavery

63407

	registered interest
	date	23/06/2014
	answering body	Department for Transport
	answering dept id	27
	answering dept short name	Transport
	answering dept sort name	Transport
	hansard heading	Railways: North of England
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many passenger journeys there were on (a) TransPennine Express and (b) Northern Rail train services between Manchester and Leeds in each of the last five years.
	tabling member constituency	Wigan
	tabling member printed	Lisa Nandy
	uin	201689
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/06/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>The Department for Transport holds this information. However, it is held on a commercially confidential basis so cannot be released.</p> answering member constituency Wimbledon answering member printed Stephen Hammond question first answered 30/06/2014 14:51:39 answering member 1585 label Biography information for Stephen Hammond
	tabling member	4082 label Biography information for Lisa Nandy

175324

	registered interest
	date	22/01/2015
	answering body	Department for Transport
	answering dept id	27
	answering dept short name	Transport
	answering dept sort name	Transport
	hansard heading	Railways: North of England
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many responses have been received to the consultation on the future of the Northern Rail and TransPennine Express franchises.
	tabling member constituency	Wigan
	tabling member printed	Lisa Nandy
	uin	221735
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/01/2015 answer text <p>We received over 20,000 responses to the Northern and TransPennine Express consultation; this included responses from Local Authorities, Rail User Groups, Community Rail Partnerships, local businesses, trade unions and other organisations, as well as responses from individual members of the public. Of those 20,000 responses, 9,315 were identical postcards from RMT members that highlighted concerns about a variety of franchise-related areas. Summaries of the responses we received and a breakdown of response numbers will be provided in the Stakeholder Briefing Document that will be published alongside the Invitations to Tender in this quarter.</p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry grouped question UIN 221737 question first answered 27/01/2015 16:08:20 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
	tabling member	4082 label Biography information for Lisa Nandy

78939

	registered interest
	date	18/07/2014
	answering body	Department for Transport
	answering dept id	27
	answering dept short name	Transport
	answering dept sort name	Transport
	hansard heading	Railways: North of England
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many responses he has had to date to the consultation on Transpennine and Northern Rail franchises; and in what area each respondent to that consultation is resident.
	tabling member constituency	Great Grimsby
	tabling member printed	Austin Mitchell
	uin	206625
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/07/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>The Department for Transport is currently conducting a joint public consultation with Rail North which will inform the specifications for both the Northern and TransPennine Express franchises. To date we have received 131 formal responses to the consultation from various people and organisations across the North of England. This number does not include responses to our online survey (which will be collected at the end of the consultation). These responses have not yet been fully analysed as the consultation is ongoing but they cover a wide range of themes. We will publish a stakeholder briefing document setting out a summary of responses to the consultation and how they were taken account of when we publish the Invitations to Tender (ITTs) for the franchises, expected in December 2014.</p><p>The consultation can be found at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/future-of-northern-and-transpennine-express-rail-franchises" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/future-of-northern-and-transpennine-express-rail-franchises</a> and concludes 18th August. No decisions have yet been taken.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 31/07/2014 08:44:45 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
	tabling member	372 label Biography information for Austin Mitchell

175325

	registered interest
	date	22/01/2015
	answering body	Department for Transport
	answering dept id	27
	answering dept short name	Transport
	answering dept sort name	Transport
	hansard heading	Railways: North of England
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many responses to the Northern Rail and TransPennine Express franchise consultation (a) supported and (b) opposed driver-only operation.
	tabling member constituency	Wigan
	tabling member printed	Lisa Nandy
	uin	221736
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/01/2015 answer text <p>We did not ask specific questions about Driver Only Operation (DOO) in the Northern and TransPennine Express consultation, so analysis of responses relating to DOO has not been carried out in this way. A range of views on DOO were expressed by those who responded to the consultation. We also received 9,315 identical postcards from RMT members that highlighted concerns about a variety of franchise-related areas, including DOO.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 27/01/2015 15:28:05 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
	tabling member	4082 label Biography information for Lisa Nandy

387626

	registered interest
	date	03/07/2015
	answering body	Department for Transport
	answering dept id	27
	answering dept short name	Transport
	answering dept sort name	Transport
	hansard heading	Railways: North of England
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how much has been allocated from the public purse for the rail investment programme in the North of England; and what the priorities for that programme are.
	tabling member constituency	Batley and Spen
	tabling member printed	Jo Cox
	uin	5556
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/07/2015 answer text <p>The Government has ambitious plans for rail which is why Network Rail has been allocated a record £38 billion for the period from 2014-2019. It is for Network Rail to determine precisely how much will be allocated to the rail investment programme in the North of England but the Secretary of State expects that the committed programme set out in the High Level Output Specification ([Rail Investment Strategy]) will be delivered.　 The government’s enhancements programme is an ambitious and stretching programme and it needs to be re-planned to ensure it remains deliverable and affordable, which is the task that has been asked of Sir Peter Hendy.</p><p> </p><p>However, the franchising programme will continue to deliver for passengers and taxpayers as planned and live procurements, including Northern and Transpennine Express, which will transform rail services across the region with more service, capacity and the scrapping of Pacers, will not be affected.　 Other rail investments in the north also continue to be delivered; for example the electrification of the lines between Liverpool and Manchester and Liverpool and Wigan has already been completed and there will be the roll-out of state of the art Intercity Express trains on the East Coast route during this Parliament.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Transpennine electrification　remains a major part of our economic plan for the region, but it is vital that　Network Rail gets this right.　 The Secretary of State has already explained to MPs (Transport Select Committee evidence March 2015), this means the　project will not be completed by 2019, as originally proposed. However, compromising on the　scope of this project would not be in passengers’ best interests. That is why　we continue to work with Network Rail on revised plans so that it delivers the　best possible results.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Harrogate and Knaresborough answering member printed Andrew Jones question first answered 10/07/2015 13:24:51 answering member 3996 label Biography information for Andrew Jones
	tabling member	4375 label Biography information for Jo Cox

175974

	registered interest
	date	27/01/2015
	answering body	Department for Transport
	answering dept id	27
	answering dept short name	Transport
	answering dept sort name	Transport
	hansard heading	Railways: North of England
	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 paid to consultants in preparation for reletting the Northern Rail and TransPennine Express franchises; and what the name of each consultant so paid was.
	tabling member constituency	Wigan
	tabling member printed	Lisa Nandy
	uin	222176
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/02/2015 answer text <p>The Department for Transport has paid in preparation for the Northern and TransPennine Express (TPE) Franchise Competitions the following consultants up to December 2014.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>TPE Franchise</strong></p></td><td> </td><td><p><strong> </strong></p></td></tr><tr><td> </td><td><p><strong>£ (including VAT)</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Nature of Advice</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Eversheds</p></td><td><p>157,081.04</p></td><td><p>Legal</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Halcrow (TRL)</p></td><td><p>986,050.21</p></td><td><p>Technical</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>URS</p></td><td><p>49,451.36</p></td><td><p>Modelling</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Ernst &amp; Young</p></td><td><p>219,133.88</p></td><td><p>Financial</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Total</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>1,411,716.49</strong></p></td><td><p><strong> </strong></p></td></tr><tr><td> </td><td> </td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Northern Franchise</strong></p></td><td> </td><td><p><strong> </strong></p></td></tr><tr><td> </td><td><p><strong>£ (including VAT)</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Nature of Advice</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Halcrow (TRL)</p></td><td><p>1,176,226.03</p></td><td><p>Technical</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Parsons Brinckerhoff</p></td><td><p>22,867.20</p></td><td><p>Bid Evaluation</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Bevan Brittan</p></td><td><p>142,126.63</p></td><td><p>Legal</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>PWC</p></td><td><p>289,104.00</p></td><td><p>Financial</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Total</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>1,630,323.86</strong></p></td><td><p><strong> </strong></p></td></tr></tbody></table></td><td><p><strong> </strong></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>This is consistent with the Department’s acceptance of the recommendations in the Brown and Laidlaw reports that external advisers be appointed for each competition.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 02/02/2015 16:08:15 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
	tabling member	4082 label Biography information for Lisa Nandy

176571

	registered interest
	date	28/01/2015
	answering body	Department for Transport
	answering dept id	27
	answering dept short name	Transport
	answering dept sort name	Transport
	hansard heading	Railways: North of England
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will (a) carry out and (b) publish an equality impact assessment of the introduction of driver-only operation on the Transpennine Express and Northern Rail franchises.
	tabling member constituency	Warrington North
	tabling member printed	Helen Jones
	uin	222388
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/02/2015 answer text <p>Our specifications for the Northern and TransPennine franchises are being developed in accordance with our public sector obligations under the Equality Act 2010. The specifications will be published shortly.</p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 02/02/2015 17:30:22 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
	tabling member	432 label Biography information for Helen Jones