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1503368

	registered interest
	date	02/09/2022
	answering body	Department for Transport
	answering dept id	27
	answering dept short name	Transport
	answering dept sort name	Transport
	hansard heading	Low Traffic Neighbourhoods: Greater London
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what recent estimate his Department has made of the amount of money levied by local authorities in London through penalties incurred by motorists entering Low Traffic Networks.
	tabling member constituency	Hendon
	tabling member printed	Dr Matthew Offord
	uin	45012
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/09/2022 answer text <p>‘Low-traffic neighbourhoods’ have been around for many years but have only recently become known by this name. It describes a collection of measures designed to remove rat-running traffic from streets. The key feature is generally a road closure, which prevents through motor traffic from accessing the road but permits cycling and walking. Access is maintained for residents and their visitors and for essential services.</p><p>Closures may be implemented using existing standard traffic management measures such as signed access restrictions to through motor traffic. These are enforceable in the same way and with the same penalties as when used on any other part of the road network. Enforcement of such restrictions is a matter for local authorities, where they have taken up the powers, and as such the Department has made no such estimate of the penalties incurred.</p><p>The use of any surplus funds resulting from civil enforcement of such traffic restrictions in London is subject to the requirements set out in Schedule 2 to the London Local Authorities and Transport for London Act 2003, which ring-fences how any surplus may be used.</p> answering member constituency Witney answering member printed Robert Courts grouped question UIN 45462 question first answered 14/09/2022 09:47:54 answering member 4589 label Biography information for Robert Courts
	tabling member	4006 label Biography information for Dr Matthew Offord

1503760

	registered interest
	date	02/09/2022
	answering body	Department for Transport
	answering dept id	27
	answering dept short name	Transport
	answering dept sort name	Transport
	hansard heading	Road Traffic Control: Greater London
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment his Department has made of the appropriateness of local authorities in London using Low Traffic Networks to raise revenue from fines.
	tabling member constituency	Hendon
	tabling member printed	Dr Matthew Offord
	uin	45462
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/09/2022 answer text <p>‘Low-traffic neighbourhoods’ have been around for many years but have only recently become known by this name. It describes a collection of measures designed to remove rat-running traffic from streets. The key feature is generally a road closure, which prevents through motor traffic from accessing the road but permits cycling and walking. Access is maintained for residents and their visitors and for essential services.</p><p>Closures may be implemented using existing standard traffic management measures such as signed access restrictions to through motor traffic. These are enforceable in the same way and with the same penalties as when used on any other part of the road network. Enforcement of such restrictions is a matter for local authorities, where they have taken up the powers, and as such the Department has made no such estimate of the penalties incurred.</p><p>The use of any surplus funds resulting from civil enforcement of such traffic restrictions in London is subject to the requirements set out in Schedule 2 to the London Local Authorities and Transport for London Act 2003, which ring-fences how any surplus may be used.</p> answering member constituency Witney answering member printed Robert Courts grouped question UIN 45012 question first answered 14/09/2022 09:47:54 answering member 4589 label Biography information for Robert Courts
	tabling member	4006 label Biography information for Dr Matthew Offord

1349044

	registered interest
	date	21/07/2021
	answering body	Department for Transport
	answering dept id	27
	answering dept short name	Transport
	answering dept sort name	Transport
	hansard heading	MV Empire Windrush: War Graves
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether HMT Empire Windrush has been designated as a war grave.
	tabling member constituency	Hendon
	tabling member printed	Dr Matthew Offord
	uin	37439
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/09/2021 answer text <p>While the term ‘war grave’ is used in common parlance, there is no legal definition that applies at sea (or on land). Therefore, the wreck of the HMT Empire Windrush cannot be designated in this manner.</p><p>The wreck is not designated under the Protection of Military Remains Act 1986, the Protection of Wrecks Act 1973, nor the Ancient Monuments and Archaeological Areas Act 1979.</p><p>This does not detract from the ship continuing to act as an extraordinary and enduring symbol of the contribution of the Windrush generation to the United Kingdom.</p> answering member constituency Witney answering member printed Robert Courts question first answered 06/09/2021 15:58:29 answering member 4589 label Biography information for Robert Courts
	tabling member	4006 label Biography information for Dr Matthew Offord

1461874

	registered interest
	date	11/05/2022
	answering body	Department for Transport
	answering dept id	27
	answering dept short name	Transport
	answering dept sort name	Transport
	hansard heading	Aviation and Shipping: Russia
	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 identify Russian-owned aircraft and ships located in the UK.
	tabling member constituency	Hendon
	tabling member printed	Dr Matthew Offord
	uin	713
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/05/2022 answer text <p>We are actively working with departments and agencies across government, with industry, and Crown Dependencies and Overseas Territories, to enforce sanctions against Russia – including the identification of Russian-owned aircraft and ships.</p> answering member constituency Witney answering member printed Robert Courts question first answered 17/05/2022 09:21:00 answering member 4589 label Biography information for Robert Courts
	tabling member	4006 label Biography information for Dr Matthew Offord

1461879

	registered interest
	date	11/05/2022
	answering body	Department for Transport
	answering dept id	27
	answering dept short name	Transport
	answering dept sort name	Transport
	hansard heading	Aviation and Shipping: Russia
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many Russian-owned vessels have been seized at ports and airfields since sanctions have been introduced in response to the invasion of Ukraine.
	tabling member constituency	Hendon
	tabling member printed	Dr Matthew Offord
	uin	714
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/05/2022 answer text <p>We are actively working with departments and agencies across Government to identify all aircraft and vessels, including leisure craft, that fall within the scope of the sanctions Regulations. To date, three aircraft have been detained, and two remain under a restriction of flying order pending investigation. At least 28 ships have been frustrated by the maritime sanctions, and one superyacht has been detained.</p> answering member constituency Witney answering member printed Robert Courts question first answered 17/05/2022 09:17:57 answering member 4589 label Biography information for Robert Courts
	tabling member	4006 label Biography information for Dr Matthew Offord

1236586

	registered interest
	date	22/09/2020
	answering body	Department for Transport
	answering dept id	27
	answering dept short name	Transport
	answering dept sort name	Transport
	hansard heading	Shipping: Identification
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what plans he has in place to stop skippers turning off their automatic identification system to prevent location identification.
	tabling member constituency	Hendon
	tabling member printed	Dr Matthew Offord
	uin	93580
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/09/2020 answer text <p>The Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA) already has measures in place to ensure that shipmasters, skippers and navigational watchkeepers of fishing vessels and commercial vessels mandated to carry automatic identification system (AIS) keep their systems operational and in proper use at all times.</p><p> </p><p>These measures include the use of fixed wing surveillance aircraft and fixed radar installations at certain locations along the coast.</p><p> </p><p>The MCA recently updated gov.uk weblinks to remind skippers of relevant fishing vessels that they must fit AIS which meet the international performance standards and that it is an offence to switch off AIS unless there are compelling grounds to justify that safety and security of the vessel would be affected.</p><p> </p><p>The MCA will either warn or prosecute and fine those who they discover are failing to properly use the AIS at sea.</p> answering member constituency Witney answering member printed Robert Courts question first answered 29/09/2020 09:11:15 answering member 4589 label Biography information for Robert Courts
	tabling member	4006 label Biography information for Dr Matthew Offord

1420638

	registered interest
	date	07/02/2022
	answering body	Department for Transport
	answering dept id	27
	answering dept short name	Transport
	answering dept sort name	Transport
	hansard heading	Shipping: Safety
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment his Department has made of the implications for its policies relating to the seaworthiness of vessels of the decision in Alize 1954 and another v Allianz Elementar Versicherungs AG and others, [2021] UKSC 51.
	tabling member constituency	Hendon
	tabling member printed	Dr Matthew Offord
	uin	119524
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/02/2022 answer text <p>The Maritime &amp; Coastguard Agency is the enforcement body for investigations and criminal prosecutions under Merchant Shipping legislation. The outcome of these civil proceedings will be taken into account when considering evidence and culpability in the event of any prosecutions in similar circumstances that are judged to be in the public interest.</p> answering member constituency Witney answering member printed Robert Courts question first answered 14/02/2022 12:21:56 answering member 4589 label Biography information for Robert Courts
	tabling member	4006 label Biography information for Dr Matthew Offord

1453540

	registered interest
	date	23/03/2022
	answering body	Department for Transport
	answering dept id	27
	answering dept short name	Transport
	answering dept sort name	Transport
	hansard heading	Shipping: Carbon Emissions
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment his Department has made of the implications for his policies of the shipping industry's announcement to become net zero by 2050.
	tabling member constituency	Hendon
	tabling member printed	Dr Matthew Offord
	uin	145843
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/03/2022 answer text <p>The Government is working to accelerate efforts to decarbonise the international shipping sector and therefore welcomes calls from the industry for higher ambition in the International Maritime Organization’s Initial Strategy on greenhouse gas reduction when it is revised in 2023. The UK is committed to building consensus through the IMO to ensure international shipping emissions peak and decline in line with the temperature goal of the Paris Agreement.</p><p>The IMO will need robust policy measures in place to achieve these ambitious goals, and the UK will play a leading role in shaping these measures to ensure they are fit for purpose.</p><p> </p><p>Domestically, the UK will reduce emissions to net zero across the whole economy by 2050, including emissions from domestic shipping. The Transport Decarbonisation Plan, published in summer 2021, sets out our commitments to accelerate the UK’s transition to net zero shipping.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Witney answering member printed Robert Courts question first answered 29/03/2022 15:00:47 answering member 4589 label Biography information for Robert Courts
	tabling member	4006 label Biography information for Dr Matthew Offord

1453542

	registered interest
	date	23/03/2022
	answering body	Department for Transport
	answering dept id	27
	answering dept short name	Transport
	answering dept sort name	Transport
	hansard heading	Shipping: Overseas Trade
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what estimate his Department has made of the amount of overseas trade that will be delivered to the UK through the maritime industry in the next 10 years.
	tabling member constituency	Hendon
	tabling member printed	Dr Matthew Offord
	uin	145845
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/03/2022 answer text <p>The Department for Transport monitors and publishes port freight statistics on a quarterly and annual basis. The department’s published port freight statistics for the last quarter of 2021<sup>1</sup> and for both 2020<sup>2</sup> and 2019<sup>3</sup> are provided below. The Covid-19 pandemic has caused worldwide disruption to trade, and its impacts on the maritime sector are evidenced in these statistics.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>[1] Port freight statistics October 2021 – December 2021: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/port-freight-quarterly-statistics-october-to-december-2021/port-freight-quarterly-statistics-october-to-december-2021" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/port-freight-quarterly-statistics-october-to-december-2021/port-freight-quarterly-statistics-october-to-december-2021</a></p><p> </p><p>[2] Port freight annual statistics 2020 report: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/port-freight-annual-statistics-2020" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/port-freight-annual-statistics-2020</a></p><p> </p><p>[3] Port freight annual statistics: 2019 report: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/port-freight-annual-statistics-2019" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/port-freight-annual-statistics-2019</a></p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Witney answering member printed Robert Courts question first answered 29/03/2022 15:03:00 answering member 4589 label Biography information for Robert Courts
	tabling member	4006 label Biography information for Dr Matthew Offord

1689091

	registered interest
	date	16/02/2024
	answering body	Attorney General
	answering dept id	88
	answering dept short name	Attorney General
	answering dept sort name	Attorney General
	hansard heading	Attorney General: Information Officers
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Attorney General, how many posts there are for (a) press, (b) media and (c) other communications staff in her Department; and what the salary band is for each post.
	tabling member constituency	Hendon
	tabling member printed	Dr Matthew Offord
	uin	14020
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/02/2024 answer text <p>The Attorney General’s Office (AGO) press and media team is made up of five employees. Roles range from Higher Executive Officer (HEO) to Grade 6 and have salaries between £33,309 (the lower limit of HEO) and £77,456 (the upper limit of Grade 6).</p><p>As announced by the Government last year, departments are submitting productivity plans to modernise the Civil Service and reduce the size of the state to pre-pandemic levels.</p><p>Other communication roles (correspondence) in the AGO are covered by two employees in the corporate services team.</p> answering member constituency Witney answering member printed Robert Courts question first answered 23/02/2024 13:51:10 answering member 4589 label Biography information for Robert Courts
	tabling member	4006 label Biography information for Dr Matthew Offord