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835966

registered interest
date	02/02/2018
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Department for Transport: Childcare Vouchers
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many employees of his Department make use of the childcare vouchers scheme.
tabling member constituency	Barnsley East
tabling member printed	Stephanie Peacock
uin	126321
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/02/2018 answer text <p>At the end of January 2018, the Department and its Executive Agencies had 584 employees using the childcare vouchers scheme.</p> answering member constituency Wealden answering member printed Ms Nusrat Ghani question first answered 12/02/2018 11:51:09 answering member 4460 label Biography information for Ms Nusrat Ghani
tabling member	4607 label Biography information for Stephanie Peacock

836034

registered interest
date	02/02/2018
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	High Speed 2 Line: Expenditure
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 guidance, HS2 current contract opportunities, if he will publish (a) a breakdown of the indicative budget of £220,000 which was allocated for the item described as media monitoring and (b) the criteria by which his Department judges whether such items of expenditure represent good value for money.
tabling member constituency	Hampstead and Kilburn
tabling member printed	Tulip Siddiq
uin	126389
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/02/2018 answer text <p>HS2 Ltd is the executive non-departmental public body established to develop and deliver the HS2 programme.</p><p> </p><p>This is a multi-year amalgamated service contract.</p><p> </p><p>£220,000 represents the value at which the contract was advertised – as a two year contract with a two year extension option (four years in total). It does not reflect the final service contract value. The service contract awarded has a budget of £55,000 per annum. As this is a call-off contract and the spend fluctuates on how many times HS2 is mentioned in the media the total value will not necessarily be the total spend.</p><p> </p><p>HS2 Ltd competitively tendered this contract requirement to ensure best value to the taxpayer in line with statutory and other requirements. Commercial submissions were evaluated by HS2 Ltd as part of the tender, combined with technical outputs, with the aim of ensuring best overall value was obtained. Any further breakdown of contract values is commercially sensitive and is therefore unavailable.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Wealden answering member printed Ms Nusrat Ghani question first answered 12/02/2018 16:06:39 answering member 4460 label Biography information for Ms Nusrat Ghani
tabling member	4518 label Biography information for Tulip Siddiq

836035

registered interest
date	02/02/2018
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	High Speed 2 Line: Expenditure
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 publication, HS2 current contract opportunities, if he will publish (a) a breakdown of the indicative budget of £50,000 which was allocated for the item described as trends and insights subscription services and (b) the criteria by which his Department judges whether such items of expenditure represent good value to the taxpayer.
tabling member constituency	Hampstead and Kilburn
tabling member printed	Tulip Siddiq
uin	126390
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/02/2018 answer text <p>A breakdown of contract values is commercially sensitive and is therefore unavailable. HS2 Ltd competitively tendered this contract requirement to ensure best value to the taxpayer in line with statutory and other requirements.</p> answering member constituency Wealden answering member printed Ms Nusrat Ghani question first answered 12/02/2018 15:58:48 answering member 4460 label Biography information for Ms Nusrat Ghani
tabling member	4518 label Biography information for Tulip Siddiq

836037

registered interest
date	02/02/2018
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	High Speed 2 Line: Expenditure
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 guidance, HS2 current contract opportunities, if he will publish (a) a breakdown of the indicative budget of £2,400,000 which was allocated for the item described as events delivery planner and (b) the criteria by which his Department judges whether such items of expenditure represent good value for money.
tabling member constituency	Hampstead and Kilburn
tabling member printed	Tulip Siddiq
uin	126392
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/02/2018 answer text <p>HS2 Ltd is the executive non-departmental public body established to develop and deliver the HS2 programme. This is multi-year contract for services to support with HS2 Ltd events to engage with industry and supply chain in order to ensure that Small Medium Enterprises (SME’s) are ready and able to take advantage of the contract opportunities that HS2 presents, and are aware of the expectations that HS2 has of them. In addition it supports events to engage with the public to promote the skills, educational and employment opportunities that HS2 provides.</p><p> </p><p>The contract is a call-off contract and therefore the indicative budget of £2,400,000 is a cap and HS2 Ltd will not necessarily spend this total value.</p><p> </p><p>HS2 Ltd competitively tendered this contract requirement to ensure best value to the taxpayer in line with statutory and other requirements. Any further breakdown of contract values is commercially sensitive and is therefore unavailable.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Wealden answering member printed Ms Nusrat Ghani question first answered 12/02/2018 16:03:21 answering member 4460 label Biography information for Ms Nusrat Ghani
tabling member	4518 label Biography information for Tulip Siddiq

836040

registered interest
date	02/02/2018
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Department for Transport: Land
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how much land (a) his Department, (b) its agencies and (c) its non-departmental public bodies owns in (i) England and (ii) the South West; and how much of that land has been identified as being surplus to requirements.
tabling member constituency	Filton and Bradley Stoke
tabling member printed	Jack Lopresti
uin	126395
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/02/2018 answer text <p>The Department for Transport reviews land and property holdings on an ongoing basis. As and when appropriate any land or property holdings deemed surplus are promptly identified and disposed of in accordance with business needs.</p><p> </p><p>As part of the Government’s Transparency Agenda information about Department for Transport properties is published on the data.gov.uk website.</p><p> </p><p>Information on the land owned by the Department in (i) England and (ii) the South West and information on land that is surplus is available via the following web link:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://data.gov.uk/dataset/epimstransparency" target="_blank">https://data.gov.uk/dataset/epimstransparency</a></p> answering member constituency Wealden answering member printed Ms Nusrat Ghani question first answered 12/02/2018 16:10:06 answering member 4460 label Biography information for Ms Nusrat Ghani
tabling member	3989 label Biography information for Jack Lopresti

836078

registered interest
date	02/02/2018
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Taxis: Wales
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 Welsh Government ministers on cross-border issues in the taxi and private hire industry.
tabling member constituency	Cardiff South and Penarth
tabling member printed	Stephen Doughty
uin	126433
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/02/2018 answer text <p>Officials from the UK and Welsh Governments are in regular contact on a range of issues. The Welsh Government has recently consulted on proposed changes to the licensing of taxi and private hire vehicles and once a response is issued an informed discussion of any cross-border implications issues can be held. There have been no recent Ministerial discussions between the Department for Transport and the Welsh Government regarding regulation of this sector, but I will be happy to engage fully with Welsh minsters on these issues.</p> answering member constituency Wealden answering member printed Ms Nusrat Ghani question first answered 07/02/2018 14:27:15 answering member 4460 label Biography information for Ms Nusrat Ghani
tabling member	4264 label Biography information for Stephen Doughty

834622

registered interest
date	01/02/2018
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Bus Services
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 trend in the level of passenger journeys made by bus by people aged (a) 16 and under, (b) 17-20 and (c) 21-29 since 2010.
tabling member constituency	Middlesbrough
tabling member printed	Andy McDonald
uin	126070
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/02/2018 answer text <p>The Department for Transport funds the National Travel Survey (NTS), a series of annual household surveys which provide consistent data on personal travel behaviour for all residents of England. The latest year for which data are available is 2016. Estimates for the number of bus trips per person per year by the requested age groups, for the years 2010 to 2016, are given in the table below.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="10"><p><strong>Average number of local and non-local bus trips<sup>1</sup>, by age group: England, 2010-2016</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong> </strong></p></td><td><p><strong> </strong></p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td colspan="7"><p><strong>Trips per person per year</strong></p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Age group</strong></p></td><td><p><strong> </strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2010</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2011</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2012</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2013</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2014</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2015</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2016</strong></p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong> </strong></p></td><td><p><strong> </strong></p></td><td><p><strong> </strong></p></td><td><p><strong> </strong></p></td><td><p><strong> </strong></p></td><td><p><strong> </strong></p></td><td><p><strong> </strong></p></td><td><p><strong> </strong></p></td><td><p><strong> </strong></p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>0-16</strong></p></td><td><p><strong> </strong></p></td><td><p>65</p></td><td><p>58</p></td><td><p>59</p></td><td><p>67</p></td><td><p>61</p></td><td><p>62</p></td><td><p>53</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>17-20</strong></p></td><td><p><strong> </strong></p></td><td><p>132</p></td><td><p>124</p></td><td><p>108</p></td><td><p>142</p></td><td><p>122</p></td><td><p>123</p></td><td><p>101</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>21-29</strong></p></td><td><p><strong> </strong></p></td><td><p>89</p></td><td><p>74</p></td><td><p>78</p></td><td><p>70</p></td><td><p>72</p></td><td><p>72</p></td><td><p>54</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong> </strong></p></td><td><p><strong> </strong></p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="9"><p>1 'Bus trips' includes local buses in London and elsewhere, and non-local buses, where the bus stage was the longest part of the trip, by distance.</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="9"><p><em>Source: DfT, National Travel Survey</em></p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr></tbody></table><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>The figures suggest that there has been a fall, in 2016, in the number of bus trips taken by all ages shown. The survey is subject to sampling error, however, so single year on year changes should be interpreted with caution.</p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency Wealden answering member printed Ms Nusrat Ghani question first answered 06/02/2018 13:41:22 answering member 4460 label Biography information for Ms Nusrat Ghani
tabling member	4269 label Biography information for Andy McDonald

834623

registered interest
date	01/02/2018
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Bus Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether he has made an assessment of the causes of decline in the number of passenger journeys made by bus since 2010; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Middlesbrough
tabling member printed	Andy McDonald
uin	126071
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/02/2018 answer text <p>There are a number of factors that may explain the fall in bus patronage on local bus services seen in recent years. These include:</p><p> </p><ul><li>Transport for London attribute the fall in bus patronage in London in the last three consecutive years to increased congestion and road works which has affected bus performance by reducing average bus speeds. This may also result in people switching to other modes of transport such as light rail.</li></ul><p> </p><ul><li>Car ownership: Household car ownership remains high and is likely to have contributed to falling bus patronage. Data from the National Travel Survey (NTS) shows that 77% of households in England owned at least one car or van in 2016, up from 75% in 2010.</li></ul><p> </p><ul><li>Online shopping: The growth in online shopping in recent years may have led to a fall in people using the bus for shopping trips. Data from the National Travel Survey shows that there were 13 shopping trips per person per year on local bus in England in 2016, down from 19 per person per year in 2010.</li></ul><p> </p><ul><li>Reductions in local authority supported services: Vehicle mileage on local authority supported services in England outside London has decreased each year since peaking in 2009/10.</li></ul><p> </p><p>The Bus Services Act 2017 presents local authorities with new powers to bring about change, and unlock the potential for the bus industry to achieve more for passengers. In particular, new enhanced partnership and advanced quality partnership powers provide the framework for authorities to work side by side with operators to set a shared vision for bus services in their area.</p> answering member constituency Wealden answering member printed Ms Nusrat Ghani question first answered 09/02/2018 12:00:58 answering member 4460 label Biography information for Ms Nusrat Ghani
tabling member	4269 label Biography information for Andy McDonald

834655

registered interest
date	01/02/2018
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	High Speed 2 Line: Compensation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether HS2 Ltd has introduced an alternative dispute resolution scheme for compensation for landowners.
tabling member constituency	Eddisbury
tabling member printed	Antoinette Sandbach
uin	126103
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/02/2018 answer text <p>An Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) process is offered by HS2 Ltd in appropriate cases to property owners where statutory compensation cannot be agreed through negotiation. Cases have been subject to this process since June 2016 and guidance has been issued to individual applicants on the detailed ADR process.</p><p> </p><p>HS2 Ltd intend to publish guidance on ADR by 31 March 2018.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Wealden answering member printed Ms Nusrat Ghani question first answered 09/02/2018 11:11:42 answering member 4460 label Biography information for Ms Nusrat Ghani
tabling member	4506 label Biography information for Antoinette Sandbach

834656

registered interest
date	01/02/2018
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	High Speed 2 Line
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 introduction of the urban compensation scheme for Phase 1 of High Speed Two.
tabling member constituency	Eddisbury
tabling member printed	Antoinette Sandbach
uin	126104
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/02/2018 answer text <p>A scheme to provide compensation for those suffering from severe and prolonged disturbance from the construction of HS2 is in development. More details about this scheme will be provided in due course but will be well in advance of the start of major construction works, anticipated to be mid - 2019.</p> answering member constituency Wealden answering member printed Ms Nusrat Ghani question first answered 07/02/2018 15:35:14 answering member 4460 label Biography information for Ms Nusrat Ghani
tabling member	4506 label Biography information for Antoinette Sandbach