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1015033

registered interest
date	26/11/2018
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, under what terms Richard George has been engaged by his Department to (a) co-ordinate efforts between train operators and Network Rail to improve the reliability of services in the north and (b) work with industry and Transport for the North to examine the increase in services train operators committed to in December 2019; and what the timeframe is for Mr George to present his recommendations to the Department.
tabling member constituency	Middlesbrough
tabling member printed	Andy McDonald
uin	195606
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/12/2018 answer text <p>Richard George, an independent industry expert, has been tasked by the Secretary of State to assist with railway industry performance improvement in the region covered by Transport for the North. Although there may be discussion on the increase in services train operators are committed to in December 2019, this is not a specific remit of his work. The Terms of Reference set out the remit of his work, including that he will report to both the Department and Transport for the North.</p><p> </p><p>It is intended that recommendations will be provided to the Department in Spring 2019. A copy of the full Terms of Reference will be placed in the libraries of both Houses.</p> answering member constituency Harrogate and Knaresborough answering member printed Andrew Jones question first answered 04/12/2018 13:17:56 answering member 3996 label Biography information for Andrew Jones
tabling member	4269 label Biography information for Andy McDonald

1015040

registered interest
date	26/11/2018
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, what recent steps his Department has taken to expand the Oyster card system beyond London.
tabling member constituency	Luton South
tabling member printed	Mr Gavin Shuker
uin	195527
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/11/2018 answer text <p>We have invested £80m so that passengers have a smart option for almost all journeys across the network by the end of the year; this is in addition to our £150 million commitment to smart ticketing in the North. Our goal is to ensure that across regional and urban commuter areas smart ticketing is able to deliver the kind of pay as you go structure used in London.</p> answering member constituency Harrogate and Knaresborough answering member printed Andrew Jones question first answered 29/11/2018 13:17:42 answering member 3996 label Biography information for Andrew Jones
tabling member	4013 label Biography information for Mr Gavin Shuker

1015159

registered interest
date	26/11/2018
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Railways: North West
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 secure skilled jobs in the rail industry for the North West of England.
tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
tabling member printed	Frank Field
uin	195499
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/12/2018 answer text <p>Government is investing £48bn in Network Rail over 2019-2024, alongside significant projects like HS2. This significant investment in the rail network gives companies across the entire rail supply chain sector, including in the North West of England, the certainty to invest in people and skills.</p><p> </p><p>In 2016 DfT set ambitions through the Transport Infrastructure Skills Strategy to increase apprenticeships in road and rail bodies to help address skills shortages in the transport sector and ensure that the transport sector has the capacity and capability to deliver planned investment.</p><p> </p><p>DfT works in collaboration with employers across the sector to create quality apprenticeships through an industry body, the Strategic Transport Apprenticeship Taskforce (STAT) to deliver these ambitions. Network Rail, HS2, the Rail Delivery Group, the National Skills Academy for Rail and TfL are members of STAT. So far, over 5000 apprenticeships have been created in road and rail bodies.</p><p> </p><p>Since 2017, the Department for Transport has used its procurement to drive apprenticeship numbers through contracts, including those within the rail industry.</p><p> </p><p>Manchester's Growth Strategy is looking to maximise skills to make the most of the opportunities that HS2 will bring to the area and sets out aspirations to develop a skilled workforce through close work ‘with the four Universities within Greater Manchester to provide STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) skills through higher apprenticeship, graduate and post-graduate qualifications in close partnership with industry.</p><p> </p><p>Rail, like many other industries, have set out their interest in developing a Sector Deal and have been working across the industry and with government to develop their proposal. We expect a focus on skills and apprenticeships to form a key part of a Rail Sector Deal.</p><p> </p><p>We have also this year been running the Year of Engineering to increase the number and diversity of engineers across the UK and to address the engineering skills gap.</p> answering member constituency Harrogate and Knaresborough answering member printed Andrew Jones question first answered 04/12/2018 14:24:42 answering member 3996 label Biography information for Andrew Jones
tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead

1015160

registered interest
date	26/11/2018
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Railways: North West
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps the Government is taking to increase rail investment in the North West of England.
tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
tabling member printed	Frank Field
uin	195500
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/12/2018 answer text <p>We are delivering a comprehensive upgrade of the railway network across the North West that will modernise the infrastructure, improve stations, provide new trains, more seats, more services and reduced journey times. Northern and Trans Pennine Express will deliver space for an extra 40,000 passengers and more than 2,000 extra services a week. All their trains will be brand new or completely refurbished, and all the Pacer trains will be gone.</p><p> </p><p>We are planning to invest nearly £3bn upgrading the Trans Pennine route that will deliver improvements for passengers across the north including Liverpool, Manchester, Leeds and Newcastle. This is one third of our expected investment in rail upgrades between 2019 and 2024, and our biggest planned investment project on the existing railway in the next five years.</p><p> </p><p>The Government is also committed to developing Northern Powerhouse Rail - we have given Transport for the North £60m to develop proposals for the scheme, alongside £300m to ensure HS2 can accommodate future NPR services. At Budget 2018 we announced a further £37m for next year to continue to develop the scheme.</p> answering member constituency Harrogate and Knaresborough answering member printed Andrew Jones question first answered 04/12/2018 13:09:14 answering member 3996 label Biography information for Andrew Jones
tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead

1015161

registered interest
date	26/11/2018
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Railways: North West
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what recent assessment he has made of the level of the economic contribution made by local supply chains in the Liverpool and Manchester Corridor to the rail industry.
tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
tabling member printed	Frank Field
uin	195501
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/12/2018 answer text <p>The Government values the contribution made by the rail supply industry to the UK economy. It is estimated that the rail industry and its supply chain employ up to 240,000 people and create up to £10.4 billion of GVA each year. There are significant rail industry clusters in both the Northern Powerhouse and Midlands Engine, including firms such as Alstom and Wabtec Faiveley in North West England.</p><p> </p><p>The Government is committed to supporting local rail supply chains through our industrial strategy and investment in the railway. For example, constructing the Ordsall Chord supported 2,000 jobs and 200 suppliers. £80 million was spent with companies within 25 miles of the project with 62% of those sub-contractors being small and medium-sized businesses. It has been built using mostly British steel, with the steel for the bridge fabricated in Bolton.</p><p> </p><p>More widely, 70% of the HS2 supply chain are small and medium-sized businesses.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Harrogate and Knaresborough answering member printed Andrew Jones question first answered 04/12/2018 13:43:50 answering member 3996 label Biography information for Andrew Jones
tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead

1015174

registered interest
date	26/11/2018
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Oxford Station
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what recent discussions he has had with stakeholders on the redevelopment of Oxford railway station.
tabling member constituency	Oxford West and Abingdon
tabling member printed	Layla Moran
uin	195666
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/12/2018 answer text <p>This is a matter for Network Rail, who are engaging with a wide range of stakeholders in Oxford relating to redevelopment of Oxford station.</p> answering member constituency Harrogate and Knaresborough answering member printed Andrew Jones question first answered 04/12/2018 14:18:06 answering member 3996 label Biography information for Andrew Jones
tabling member	4656 label Biography information for Layla Moran

1013087

registered interest
date	23/11/2018
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Railways: Bridges
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, for what reason the building of a footpath over the railway bridge in Crockenhill, reference SD341, has been delayed; and what the timetable is for Network Rail to complete that work.
tabling member constituency	Sevenoaks
tabling member printed	Sir Michael Fallon
uin	195020
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/12/2018 answer text <p>The Department for Transport does not hold this detailed information. However, I understand from Network Rail (NR) that the Crockenhill footbridge was inspected and found to be in a dangerous and unsafe condition and has been closed since September 2017. NR has put together a plan to see this old bridge removed and a new one installed by the end of this financial year. However this schedule is dependent on agreement of third parties whose co-operation is required to carry out both the removal of the old bridge and the installation of the new one. Providing NR can resolve these matters successfully, they expect to be able to confirm the timescales for the replacement of the bridge before the end of 2018.</p> answering member constituency Harrogate and Knaresborough answering member printed Andrew Jones question first answered 03/12/2018 15:11:10 answering member 3996 label Biography information for Andrew Jones
tabling member	88 label Biography information for Sir Michael Fallon

1012317

registered interest
date	22/11/2018
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Heathrow Airport: Railways
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, when he plans to publish the results of the market sounding exercise for a southern rail link to Heathrow announced on 13 June 2018.
tabling member constituency	Woking
tabling member printed	Mr Jonathan Lord
uin	194645
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/11/2018 answer text <p><strong> </strong></p><p>Earlier this year the Department undertook market testing. This is the first step in the development of Southern Access and will inform the further work required before any decision on whether to and, if so, how this scheme will be progressed.</p><p> </p><p>A summary of responses will be published in due course.</p> answering member constituency Harrogate and Knaresborough answering member printed Andrew Jones question first answered 29/11/2018 16:26:48 answering member 3996 label Biography information for Andrew Jones
tabling member	4090 label Biography information for Mr Jonathan Lord

1012349

registered interest
date	22/11/2018
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, what the timetable is for the start of (a) upgrading and (b) building new railway lines as part of the northern Powerhouse Rail programme.
tabling member constituency	Kingston upon Hull North
tabling member printed	Diana Johnson
uin	194653
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/11/2018 answer text <p>Transport for the North (TfN) will submit their Strategic Outline Business Case (SOBC) for Northern Powerhouse Rail by the end of this year. As part of this work TfN are considering potential delivery timescales for the programme.</p> answering member constituency Harrogate and Knaresborough answering member printed Andrew Jones question first answered 27/11/2018 13:28:34 answering member 3996 label Biography information for Andrew Jones
tabling member	1533 label Biography information for Dame Diana Johnson

1012434

registered interest
date	22/11/2018
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Railways: Japanese Knotweed
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what support his Department is providing to Network Rail to facilitate the removal of Japanese knotweed from railway embankments.
tabling member constituency	Glasgow Central
tabling member printed	Alison Thewliss
uin	194762
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/11/2018 answer text <p>The settlement agreed between my Department and Network Rail for England and Wales in the years 2019-2024 contains a very substantial provision for operations and maintenance, including vegetation management. The removal of Japanese Knotweed would come from this funding.</p> answering member constituency Harrogate and Knaresborough answering member printed Andrew Jones question first answered 27/11/2018 13:38:21 answering member 3996 label Biography information for Andrew Jones
tabling member	4430 label Biography information for Alison Thewliss