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1690116

registered interest
date	19/02/2024
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Parking: Enforcement
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether his Department issues guidance for local authorities on hours of operation for parking enforcement work.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Edgbaston
tabling member printed	Preet Kaur Gill
uin	14672
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/02/2024 answer text <p>Local authorities are free to make their own decisions about the streets under their care, provided they take account of the relevant legislation. The Secretary of State’s ‘Statutory Guidance to Local Authorities on the Civil Enforcement of Parking Contraventions’ explains how to approach, carry out and review parking enforcement. It attempts to strike the balance between as much national consistency as possible, while allowing parking policies to match local circumstances. The guidance can be found here: <a href="http://www.gov.uk/government/publications/civil-enforcement-of-parking-contraventions/guidance-for-local-authorities-on-enforcing-parking-restrictions" target="_blank">www.gov.uk/government/publications/civil-enforcement-of-parking-contraventions/guidance-for-local-authorities-on-enforcing-parking-restrictions</a>.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman question first answered 22/02/2024 14:57:46 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
tabling member	4603 label Biography information for Preet Kaur Gill

1684454

registered interest
date	23/01/2024
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Road Works
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to his Department's news story entitled New street works regime to clamp down on pothole pain, published on 31 March 2023, whether he has made a recent assessment of the effectiveness of the new street works regime.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Edgbaston
tabling member printed	Preet Kaur Gill
uin	11160
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/01/2024 answer text <p>New guidance and regulations introducing a performance-based inspections regime came into force on 1 April 2023. The new regime enables highway authorities to carry out more inspections of poorly performing utility companies.</p><p>It is too early to assess the effectiveness of the new regime, however my officials are using the Government’s digital service Street Manager to gather data.</p><p> </p><p>The Department liaises with highway authorities and utility companies continuously to monitor and discuss ways to improve performance. Delivering on its plan for drivers, the Government has launched a street works consultation including a proposal to direct at least 50% of money from lane rental schemes to be used to improve roads and repair potholes. Lane rental schemes allow local highway authorities to charge organisations for the time that street and road works occupy the road. Lane rental schemes allow local highway authorities to charge organisations for the time that street and road works occupy the road.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman question first answered 30/01/2024 16:56:59 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
tabling member	4603 label Biography information for Preet Kaur Gill

1684455

registered interest
date	23/01/2024
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Utilities: Repairs and Maintenance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether his Department has made a recent assessment of the adequacy of the powers available to Local Authorities to hold utility companies to account for defects left behind after excavation work on grassed areas and grass verges.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Edgbaston
tabling member printed	Preet Kaur Gill
uin	11161
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/01/2024 answer text <p>Highway authorities have a range of powers to deal with utility street works. If the grassed area or verge is part of the public highway, utility companies carrying out excavations need to apply for a permit from the relevant highway authority, and they must reinstate them after works have been completed in line with requirements in the <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/specification-for-the-reinstatement-of-openings-in-highways" target="_blank">Specification for Reinstatement of Openings in the Highway (SROH)</a>. Authorities can inspect the quality of the reinstatement, during works and up to two years later, and can require any defects to be repaired.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>New guidance and regulations introducing a performance-based inspections regime came into force <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/street-works-inspections" target="_blank">on 1 April 2023</a>. The new regime enables highway authorities to carry out more inspections of poorly performing utility companies.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman question first answered 30/01/2024 17:08:52 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
tabling member	4603 label Biography information for Preet Kaur Gill

1684459

registered interest
date	23/01/2024
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Motor Vehicles: Theft
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether he has held recent discussions with vehicle manufacturers on the adequacy of onboard security measures to prevent vehicle thefts.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Edgbaston
tabling member printed	Preet Kaur Gill
uin	11163
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/01/2024 answer text <p>The Government is committed to reducing vehicle crime and new vehicles have a range of features fitted on a mandatory basis to deter theft of and from vehicles. In addition, the Criminal Justice Bill will create offences aimed at reducing vehicle crime.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman question first answered 30/01/2024 16:58:47 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
tabling member	4603 label Biography information for Preet Kaur Gill

1679522

registered interest
date	05/01/2024
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Roads: Birmingham
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether his Department has made a recent assessment of the viability of alternative schemes to the Highways PFI contract for Birmingham.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Edgbaston
tabling member printed	Preet Kaur Gill
uin	8087
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/01/2024 answer text <p>The Department has assessed the viability of a range of alternative schemes to the Birmingham PFI contract. Following this, we have committed to continue Birmingham’s existing funding at approximately £50m for 2024/5. In subsequent years, Birmingham would be allocated formula funding in the same way as other local highways authorities across the country, as part of the highways maintenance block grant. This will be paid via the West Midlands Combined Authority in the usual way.</p><p> </p><p>The Department will increase the additional funding going to the West Midlands Combined Authority (WMCA) under the Network North Roads Resurfacing fund to take account of the fact that the allocations announced in November 2023 did not include an amount for Birmingham. WMCA is also benefiting from over £1 billion of City Region Sustainable Transport Settlement (CRSTS) funding up to 2026/27, and set to benefit from indicative CRSTS2 funding of over £2.6 billion between 2027/28 and 2031/32.</p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman question first answered 15/01/2024 12:24:51 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
tabling member	4603 label Biography information for Preet Kaur Gill

1679523

registered interest
date	05/01/2024
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Roads: Accidents
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what data his Department holds on the number of road casualty deaths and serious injuries in each core city.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Edgbaston
tabling member printed	Preet Kaur Gill
uin	8088
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/01/2024 answer text <p>The Department holds data on personal injury road collisions which are reported by police forces in Great Britain.</p><p>Precise collision location (based on one metre Ordnance Survey grid reference) is recorded so that data can be analysed for different geographies, including core cities. Data for all collisions are published on data.gov.uk: <a href="https://www.data.gov.uk/dataset/cb7ae6f0-4be6-4935-9277-47e5ce24a11f/road-safety-data" target="_blank">https://www.data.gov.uk/dataset/cb7ae6f0-4be6-4935-9277-47e5ce24a11f/road-safety-data</a></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman question first answered 10/01/2024 09:34:25 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
tabling member	4603 label Biography information for Preet Kaur Gill

1679003

registered interest
date	19/12/2023
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Roads: Safety
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to his Department's press release entitled Government announces new long-term plan to back drivers, published on 29 September 2023, if his Department will publish its assessment of the impact of speeding on road safety.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Edgbaston
tabling member printed	Preet Kaur Gill
uin	7641
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/01/2024 answer text <p>All available research shows a link between excessive speed and the risk of collisions.</p> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman question first answered 09/01/2024 15:49:51 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
tabling member	4603 label Biography information for Preet Kaur Gill

1667844

registered interest
date	07/11/2023
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Blue Badge Scheme: Enforcement
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if his Department will make an assessment of the potential merits of making the blue badge scheme enforceable on off-street local authority land.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Edgbaston
tabling member printed	Preet Kaur Gill
uin	383
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/11/2023 answer text <p>The Blue Badge scheme is a national scheme, the scope and legal parameters of which (including the eligibility criteria) are set by the Government. Blue Badges are recognised throughout the UK and provide concessions which apply to on-street parking. There are no plans to change this.</p> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman question first answered 15/11/2023 16:04:58 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
tabling member	4603 label Biography information for Preet Kaur Gill

1656541

registered interest
date	01/09/2023
answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
answering dept id	29
answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
hansard heading	Financial Assistance Scheme
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, for what reason Financial Assistance Scheme payments are (a) treated as earned income and (b) counted against Universal Credit.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Edgbaston
tabling member printed	Preet Kaur Gill
uin	196361
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/09/2023 answer text <p>A guiding principle for means-tested benefits, under differing Governments such as Universal Credit, State Pension Credit and Housing Benefit, is that they are not paid to people who have sufficient other income available to meet the same need. As occupational and private pensions are paid to provide support to help people meet their living costs, they are taken fully into account in the assessment of entitlement to Universal Credit. Therefore where the Financial Assistance Scheme steps in to replace pension scheme income which has become unfunded, that payments are taken into account in the same way as would have applied to the pension payments when calculating entitlement to means-tested benefits. Financial Assistance Scheme payments are treated as unearned income.</p> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman question first answered 11/09/2023 13:50:45 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
tabling member	4603 label Biography information for Preet Kaur Gill

1543690

registered interest
date	18/11/2022
answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
answering dept id	29
answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
hansard heading	Unemployment: Birmingham
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will make an estimate of what the levels of unemployment will be in Birmingham in the financial years (a) 2022-23, (b) 2023-24 and (c) 2024-25.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Edgbaston
tabling member printed	Preet Kaur Gill
uin	90857
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/11/2022 answer text <p>No estimate has been made.</p><p> </p><p>Official forecasts for national unemployment were published by the independent Office for Budget Responsibility, as part of its Economic and Fiscal Outlook and are available: <a href="https://obr.uk/docs/dlm_uploads/CCS0822661240-002_SECURE_OBR_EFO_November_2022_WEB_ACCESSIBLE.pdf" target="_blank">Economic and Fiscal Outlook - November 2022 (obr.uk)</a></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman question first answered 28/11/2022 16:30:30 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
tabling member	4603 label Biography information for Preet Kaur Gill