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1126012

	registered interest
	date	13/05/2019
	answering body	Department for Transport
	answering dept id	27
	answering dept short name	Transport
	answering dept sort name	Transport
	hansard heading	Railways: Tree Felling
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many trees have been felled by Network Rail as part its lineside tree felling programme to date.
	tabling member constituency	Ceredigion
	tabling member printed	Ben Lake
	uin	253699
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/05/2019 answer text <p>Network Rail does not have a lineside tree felling programme, however Network Rail does have a statutory duty to ensure that the railways remain safe and reliable for the millions of people who use the network every day. In the last year, there were more than a thousand incidents where trees caused disruption to the network, which in some cases resulted in injuries among train drivers and members of the public.</p> answering member constituency Harrogate and Knaresborough answering member printed Andrew Jones question first answered 21/05/2019 11:44:23 answering member 3996 label Biography information for Andrew Jones
	tabling member	4630 label Biography information for Ben Lake

1126013

	registered interest
	date	13/05/2019
	answering body	Department for Transport
	answering dept id	27
	answering dept short name	Transport
	answering dept sort name	Transport
	hansard heading	Railways: Tree Felling
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many trees Network Rail plans to fell as part of its lineside tree felling programme up to the expected conclusion of that programme in 2024.
	tabling member constituency	Ceredigion
	tabling member printed	Ben Lake
	uin	253700
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/05/2019 answer text <p>Network Rail does not have a dedicated lineside tree felling programme.</p> answering member constituency Harrogate and Knaresborough answering member printed Andrew Jones question first answered 21/05/2019 11:52:28 answering member 3996 label Biography information for Andrew Jones
	tabling member	4630 label Biography information for Ben Lake

1126014

	registered interest
	date	13/05/2019
	answering body	Department for Transport
	answering dept id	27
	answering dept short name	Transport
	answering dept sort name	Transport
	hansard heading	Railways: Tree Felling
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many trees Network Rail are planning to replant to replace the loss of biodiversity resulting from its lineside tree felling programme.
	tabling member constituency	Ceredigion
	tabling member printed	Ben Lake
	uin	253701
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/05/2019 answer text <p>Network Rail does not have a lineside tree felling programme. While Network Rail has carried out replanting, where appropriate, on individual projects, it does not hold central data on the number of trees replanted across its estate.</p> answering member constituency Harrogate and Knaresborough answering member printed Andrew Jones question first answered 21/05/2019 12:01:41 answering member 3996 label Biography information for Andrew Jones
	tabling member	4630 label Biography information for Ben Lake

1126016

	registered interest
	date	13/05/2019
	answering body	Department for Transport
	answering dept id	27
	answering dept short name	Transport
	answering dept sort name	Transport
	hansard heading	Railways: Tree Felling
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessments Network Rail carry out to classify a lineside tree as safety critical.
	tabling member constituency	Ceredigion
	tabling member printed	Ben Lake
	uin	253702
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/05/2019 answer text <p>Network Rail’s lineside engineers and surveyors consider a range of factors as part of their routine assessment of lineside trees, and whether these are considered safety critical or not. In the last year, there were more than a thousand incidents where trees caused disruption to the network, which in some cases resulted in injuries among train drivers and members of the public. Factors include the condition of the trees themselves, any identifiable hazards to oncoming trains and the safety risks associated with leaves on the line. This is in accordance with Network Rail’s own standards for vegetation management, which is based on existing forestry and environmental legislation.</p> answering member constituency Harrogate and Knaresborough answering member printed Andrew Jones question first answered 21/05/2019 12:22:45 answering member 3996 label Biography information for Andrew Jones
	tabling member	4630 label Biography information for Ben Lake

1126018

	registered interest
	date	13/05/2019
	answering body	Department for Transport
	answering dept id	27
	answering dept short name	Transport
	answering dept sort name	Transport
	hansard heading	Railways: Tree Felling
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to the independent review of Network Rail’s lineside vegetation management, published in November 2018, for what reasons Network Rail has felled trees during the nesting season.
	tabling member constituency	Ceredigion
	tabling member printed	Ben Lake
	uin	253703
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/05/2019 answer text <p>Network Rail has a statutory duty to ensure that the railways remain safe throughout the year, and are therefore expected to intervene to address imminent safety risks or hazards that present themselves at the lineside, whenever this may be the case. As part of fulfilling this duty, Network Rail work with independent ecologists and arborists to identify nesting birds and protected species before commissioning any devegetation work, so that appropriate mitigation can be put in place to protect them and minimise disturbance.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Harrogate and Knaresborough answering member printed Andrew Jones question first answered 21/05/2019 12:28:41 answering member 3996 label Biography information for Andrew Jones
	tabling member	4630 label Biography information for Ben Lake

1126026

	registered interest
	date	13/05/2019
	answering body	Department for Transport
	answering dept id	27
	answering dept short name	Transport
	answering dept sort name	Transport
	hansard heading	Public Transport: Waste
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps his Department is taking to reduce (a) disposable and (b) non-recyclable waste on public transport services.
	tabling member constituency	South Antrim
	tabling member printed	Paul Girvan
	uin	253704
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/05/2019 answer text <p>The government is committed to reducing the adverse environmental impacts of transport. Reducing plastic and non-recyclable waste on public transport is predominantly a matter for transport operators. However, the Department for Transport (DfT) encourages improvements. For example, DfT sets targets in rail franchise agreements for operators to reduce waste to landfill and to increase the proportion of waste that is recycled.</p><p> </p><p>Network Rail (NR) has installed drinking facilities in nine stations to reduce plastic waste and plans to introduce facilities to all other NR-managed stations. By the end of 2020, NR plans to ban retailers from supplying plastic cutlery and cups, implement a coffee cup recycling scheme, and expand the roll-out of coffee ground recycling to all NR-managed stations.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Harrogate and Knaresborough answering member printed Andrew Jones question first answered 21/05/2019 11:38:34 answering member 3996 label Biography information for Andrew Jones
	tabling member	4633 label Biography information for Paul Girvan

1126244

	registered interest
	date	13/05/2019
	answering body	Department for Transport
	answering dept id	27
	answering dept short name	Transport
	answering dept sort name	Transport
	hansard heading	British Transport Police: Finance
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what has been Transport for London's budget for the British Transport Police (a) each year since 2015 and (b) what that budget proposal is for (i) 2019-20, (ii) 2020-21 and (iii) 2021-22.
	tabling member constituency	Chelsea and Fulham
	tabling member printed	Greg Hands
	uin	253533
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/05/2019 answer text <p>Transport for London’s budget for the British Transport Police is a matter for the Mayor of London to determine and the Department does not hold this data.</p> answering member constituency Harrogate and Knaresborough answering member printed Andrew Jones question first answered 21/05/2019 12:48:47 answering member 3996 label Biography information for Andrew Jones
	tabling member	1526 label Biography information for Greg Hands

1126247

	registered interest
	date	13/05/2019
	answering body	Department for Transport
	answering dept id	27
	answering dept short name	Transport
	answering dept sort name	Transport
	hansard heading	British Transport Police
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many British Transport Police officers there have been on the Transport for London network in each of the last five years; and how many of those officers are planned to work on the Transport for London network in (a) 2019 and (b) each of the next three years.
	tabling member constituency	Chelsea and Fulham
	tabling member printed	Greg Hands
	uin	253534
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/05/2019 answer text <p>The table below shows the budgeted number of British Transport Police (BTP) police officers and Police Community Support Officers (PCSOs) funded by TfL for the TfL network. BTP reimburse TfL with funding for vacant posts throughout the year.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Year</p></td><td><p>Police Officer budgeted TfL establishment</p></td><td><p>PCSO budgeted TfL establishment</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015/16</p></td><td><p>775</p></td><td><p>141</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016/17</p></td><td><p>813</p></td><td><p>128</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017/18</p></td><td><p>808</p></td><td><p>126</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2018/19</p></td><td><p>760</p></td><td><p>100</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2019/20</p></td><td><p>759.5</p></td><td><p>100</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>The above data is at 1 April of each year. The data for the current year is subject to review.</p><p> </p><p>The policing resource for future years is subject to negotiation between TfL, BTP and the British Transport Police Authority (BTPA).</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Harrogate and Knaresborough answering member printed Andrew Jones question first answered 21/05/2019 12:45:39 answering member 3996 label Biography information for Andrew Jones
	tabling member	1526 label Biography information for Greg Hands

1125493

	registered interest
	date	08/05/2019
	answering body	Department for Transport
	answering dept id	27
	answering dept short name	Transport
	answering dept sort name	Transport
	hansard heading	Bus Services: Disability
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to their Bus Services Act 2017: bus open data consultation response, published in January, why the provision of accessibility information “would be too great an implementation burden for bus operators”; and what assessment they have made of the impact of the lack of such information on those with disabilities.
	tabling member printed	Lord Holmes of Richmond
	uin	HL15588
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/05/2019 answer text <p>The Department for Transport consulted with bus operators, passengers and their representative groups to explore the technical feasibility of requiring operators and/or local transport authorities to provide accessibility data for both vehicles and stops. We came to the conclusion that the industry is not yet ready to meet this challenge and therefore have chosen to focus on only legally requiring the core data types for the Bus Open Data Digital Service.</p><p> </p><p>Whilst we do consider accessibility information to be of great importance for public transport users, many operators would need to upgrade their systems in order to openly publish accessibility information, and many operators are not currently in a position to do so.</p><p> </p><p>However, we are working with the industry to support the voluntary and open publication of accessibility information and at a later stage in the programme, after the core requirements have been successfully delivered, return to this important data type and consider whether it would be feasible to legally require the industry to openly publish accessibility information about vehicles.</p> answering member printed Baroness Vere of Norbiton question first answered 22/05/2019 14:20:17 answering member 4580 label Biography information for Baroness Vere of Norbiton
	tabling member	4294 label Biography information for Lord Holmes of Richmond

1125497

	registered interest
	date	08/05/2019
	answering body	Department for Transport
	answering dept id	27
	answering dept short name	Transport
	answering dept sort name	Transport
	hansard heading	Electric Vehicles: Charging Points
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they intend to introduce legislation that requires all electricity used at charging points for electric vehicles to be from renewable sources.
	tabling member printed	Baroness Jones of Moulsecoomb
	uin	HL15592
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/05/2019 answer text <p>We want an increasing proportion of the electricity used at electric vehicle charging points to be from renewable and low carbon sources. We are taking steps to facilitate this by cleaning up the UK’s power generation and increasing the amount of renewable generation and ensuring electric vehicles play a helpful role in our future smart and flexible energy system.</p><p> </p><p>The Clean Growth Strategy sets out steps the Government is taking to further decarbonise the power sector and the wider economy. Between now and 2050, the Government projects electricity grid emissions will continue to fall with increasing levels of low carbon and distributed renewable generation. To enable these changes in generation, the system is adapting to become more flexible and smarter in order to better manage the new flows in power. Electric vehicles have an important role to play in this transition – offering new opportunities for consumers and the power system. Smart charging will allow charging to happen at times when more renewable energy is available. The department plans to consult on smart chargepoint requirements shortly.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Vere of Norbiton question first answered 22/05/2019 16:53:08 answering member 4580 label Biography information for Baroness Vere of Norbiton
	tabling member	4297 label Biography information for Baroness Jones of Moulsecoomb