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1135299

registered interest
date	27/06/2019
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Aviation: Exhaust Emissions
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 tackle emissions from aviation.
tabling member constituency	Coventry South
tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
uin	270256
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/07/2019 answer text <p>The Government recognises that climate change is one of the most urgent and pressing challenges we face and we are working to ensure the UK takes a leading role in tackling it.</p><p> </p><p>On 12 June 2019, the Government announced a 2050 net zero greenhouse gas emissions target for the UK. This announcement shows the UK’s steadfast commitment to tackling climate change and we recognise that aviation has a crucial part to play.</p><p> </p><p>The UK will continue to lead the way to secure a solution which reflects the truly international nature of these sectors. It is vital that we find an answer that does not simply displace emissions elsewhere across the world. We will continue to provide for international aviation and shipping emissions as we do now via headroom within our existing carbon budgets. We are minded to include these targets in legislation subject to future discussions in the International Maritime Organization and International Civil Aviation Organization.</p><p> </p><p>The Government will propose a long-term vision for UK aviation carbon emissions reduction and a pathway to achieve this by 2050 in its Aviation 2050 white paper due to be published later this year.</p> answering member constituency Northampton North answering member printed Michael Ellis question first answered 02/07/2019 14:14:00 answering member 4116 label Biography information for Sir Michael Ellis
tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham

1132460

registered interest
date	17/06/2019
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Cycling and Walking: Infrastructure
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will bring forward legislative proposals on national minimum standards for (a) walking and (b) cycling infrastructure.
tabling member constituency	Coventry South
tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
uin	265419
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/06/2019 answer text <p>The Department’s Local Transport Note 2/08 ‘Cycle Infrastructure Design’ provides guidance regarding minimum standards for walking and cycling infrastructure. The Department is currently in the process of updating this national guidance and will publish the updated guidance in due course.</p><p>Local authorities are responsible for setting their own design standards. The Government has no plans to legislate for minimum standards for cycling and walking infrastructure.</p> answering member constituency Northampton North answering member printed Michael Ellis question first answered 20/06/2019 13:08:37 answering member 4116 label Biography information for Sir Michael Ellis
tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham

1132474

registered interest
date	17/06/2019
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Cycling: Safety
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 improve road safety for cyclists.
tabling member constituency	Coventry South
tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
uin	265423
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/06/2019 answer text <p>In November, the Government published its response to the Cycling and Walking Investment Strategy (CWIS): safety review call for evidence. The response sets out a vision and a two-year plan containing 50 actions to tackle cycling, walking and horse riding safety. The action plan will help deliver the Government’s commitment to increase cycling and walking and make our roads safer for cyclists and other vulnerable road users.</p> answering member constituency Northampton North answering member printed Michael Ellis question first answered 20/06/2019 13:01:29 answering member 4116 label Biography information for Sir Michael Ellis
tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham

1132478

registered interest
date	17/06/2019
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Cycling
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 benefits of cycling to (a) physical health, (b) mental health and (c) the environment.
tabling member constituency	Coventry South
tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
uin	265424
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/06/2019 answer text <p>The Department published a rapid evidence assessment on investing in cycling and walking in April 2017 which considered a wide range of benefits from cycling and walking, including health and the environment. The Department has also worked in collaboration with Public Health England on the November 2018 publication <em>Cycling and walking for individual and population health benefits</em> and Sport England on the <em>active travel and physical activity review</em> published in May 2019.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Northampton North answering member printed Michael Ellis question first answered 25/06/2019 09:19:19 answering member 4116 label Biography information for Sir Michael Ellis
tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham

1132479

registered interest
date	17/06/2019
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Road Traffic Offences
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 ensure that the laws relating to traffic offences are effectively enforced.
tabling member constituency	Coventry South
tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
uin	265425
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/06/2019 answer text <p>The responsibility for the enforcement of criminal law, including traffic offences, is a matter for the Police who work under Home Office guidance. Decisions on how the Police deploy resources is a matter for the Police and Crime Commissioners and the Chief Constables for each police force.</p><p> </p><p>The detailed statistics on prosecutions and convictions for motoring offences between 2010 and 2017 have been fairly stable. However there has been an increase in Police using education courses under the National Driver Offender Retraining Scheme (NDORS) from 467,601 courses in 2010 to 1,445,817 in 2018.</p><p> </p><p>The National Speed Awareness Course impact evaluation, published in 2017, found that participation in the course was more effective at preventing speed reoffending than fines and penalty points over a period of 3 years following the initial offer to attend. The National Speed Awareness Course is now offered by most police forces in England and Wales.</p><p>In March 2018, we provided a grant of £370,000 to PACTS (Parliamentary Advisory Council for Transport Safety) to run a competition to encourage the development of mobile evidential breath testing instruments which will meet the Home Office type approval requirements. Phase 2 of this competition closes at the end of June 2019.</p><p> </p><p>The DfT has recently invested £100,000 to support the digital capacity of the police to enable them to handle dash and helmet cam evidence in respect of road traffic offences.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Northampton North answering member printed Michael Ellis question first answered 24/06/2019 12:38:55 answering member 4116 label Biography information for Sir Michael Ellis
tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham

1132480

registered interest
date	17/06/2019
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Road Traffic Offences
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment he has made of trends in the level of traffic offences in each year since 2010.
tabling member constituency	Coventry South
tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
uin	265426
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/06/2019 answer text <p>The Department has not made a formal assessment of the trends in the level of traffic offences. The Department works closely with the Home Office and the Police in understanding what more we can do to assist them in prosecuting road traffic offenders.</p> answering member constituency Northampton North answering member printed Michael Ellis question first answered 25/06/2019 09:25:22 answering member 4116 label Biography information for Sir Michael Ellis
tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham

1125304

registered interest
date	08/05/2019
answering body	Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept id	10
answering dept short name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept sort name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
hansard heading	Culture: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what steps the Government is taking to (a) protect and (b) increase funding for arts and culture outside London.
tabling member constituency	Coventry South
tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
uin	251910
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/05/2019 answer text <p>We are committed to promoting the Arts and culture outside London, and continue to work closely with the Arts Council to ensure that the whole of the country has access to funding for arts and cultural programmes.</p><p> </p><p>Last year 70% of Arts Council's <ins class="ministerial">lottery</ins><del class="ministerial">total</del> funding was awarded outside London. Between 2018 and 2022 an additional £170 million of National Portfolio Organisation funding will be invested outside London.</p><p> </p><p>In addition, the recent Cultural Development Fund has seen £20 million of funding shared between five towns and cities outside of the capital, while programmes such as Creative People and Places and the City of Culture programme continue to focus outside of the capital.</p><p> </p><p>DCMS has also recently announced an additional £4 million of funding for the DCMS/Wolfson Museums and Galleries Improvement Fund. In 2019/20, 35 museums and galleries will benefit from this funding which aims to improve audience experience. Over 80% of regional museums outside London will receive money from this Fund.</p> answering member constituency Northampton North answering member printed Michael Ellis question first answered 13/05/2019 11:01:57 question first ministerially corrected 14/05/2019 10:50:06 answering member 4116 label Biography information for Sir Michael Ellis previous answer version 117364 answering member constituency Northampton North answering member printed Michael Ellis answering member 4116 label Biography information for Sir Michael Ellis
tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham

1083605

registered interest
date	07/03/2019
answering body	Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept id	10
answering dept short name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept sort name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
hansard heading	Tourism
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what recent estimate his Department has made of the total net economic effect of foreign tourists visiting (a) Coventry, (b) the West Midlands and (c) the UK in each year since 2010.
tabling member constituency	Coventry South
tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
uin	229612
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/03/2019 answer text <p>The Office for National Statistics only holds data on the Gross Value Added (GVA) to the UK’s economy in 2013 at a regional level. They also document the UK’s GVA every year at a national level (shown in the table below). They do not hold GVA information at a city level. In 2013, the GVA for tourism in the West Midlands was 3.76bn.</p><p> </p><p>Direct Tourism GVA in the UK:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Year</p></td><td><p>UK</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2009</p></td><td><p>£44.6bn</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010</p></td><td><p>£49bn</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011</p></td><td><p>£53bn</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012</p></td><td><p>£57.3bn</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013</p></td><td><p>£59bn</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014</p></td><td><p>£60.4bn</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015</p></td><td><p>£64.6bn</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016</p></td><td><p>£68.3bn</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017</p></td><td><p>£67.7bn (Provisional)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2018</p></td><td><p>Not available yet</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The following table outlines the international visitor spend in the locations requested:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Year</p></td><td><p>West Midlands</p></td><td><p>UK</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2009</p></td><td><p>£594.5m</p></td><td><p>£16.5bn</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010</p></td><td><p>£549.2m</p></td><td><p>£16.8bn</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011</p></td><td><p>£570.6m</p></td><td><p>£17.9bn</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012</p></td><td><p>£577.9m</p></td><td><p>£18.5bn</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013</p></td><td><p>£843.2m</p></td><td><p>£21.1bn</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014</p></td><td><p>£761.3m</p></td><td><p>£21.7bn</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015</p></td><td><p>£816.2m</p></td><td><p>£21.9bn</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016</p></td><td><p>£854.7m</p></td><td><p>£22.4bn</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017</p></td><td><p>£806.9m</p></td><td><p>£24.4bn</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2018</p></td><td><p>Not available yet</p></td><td><p>Not available yet</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Northampton North answering member printed Michael Ellis question first answered 18/03/2019 16:53:43 answering member 4116 label Biography information for Sir Michael Ellis
tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham

1052459

registered interest
date	01/02/2019
answering body	Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept id	10
answering dept short name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept sort name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
hansard heading	Treasure: Conservation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what recent assessment his Department has made of the effectiveness of the Treasury Act 1996 to promoting museum-led conservation.
tabling member constituency	Coventry South
tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
uin	215553
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/02/2019 answer text <p>The aim of the Treasure Act 1996 is to preserve important and significant finds for public collections. The intention is that at the end of the process governed by the Act and its associated code of practice, a treasure find will be acquired and conserved by a museum.</p><p> </p><p>The Act and code both emphasise the importance of conservation throughout the treasure find process. The code contains extensive information on the treatment of finds and urges finders to follow appropriate codes of conduct and to seek the advice of professional archaeologists of archaeological and conservation methods.</p><p> </p><p>The Portable Antiquities Scheme, which operates in England and Wales, and which records archaeological finds, also provides advice on conservation to finders.</p> answering member constituency Northampton North answering member printed Michael Ellis question first answered 06/02/2019 13:39:48 answering member 4116 label Biography information for Sir Michael Ellis
tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham