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809708

registered interest
date	19/12/2017
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Midland Main Line
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how much funding has been allocated from the public purse for planned upgrades to the Midland Main Line; and what the planned upgrades are which will be undertaken to improve capacity and speed on that line.
tabling member constituency	Harborough
tabling member printed	Neil O'Brien
uin	120328
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/12/2017 answer text <p>We are investing over £1 billion in the biggest upgrade to the Midland Main Line since it was completed in 1870. It will deliver improved long distance passenger services between Sheffield, Nottingham and London, as well as a new dedicated service between Corby, Kettering and London. There will be more seats and faster intercity journeys during the peak.</p><p> </p><p>Upgrades to improve capacity and line speed include:</p><ul><li>Remodelling of Derby station to improve journey times for freight and passenger services</li><li>Platform lengthening at Market Harborough to improve capacity</li><li>Leicester South Junction remodelled to improve journey times</li><li>Line speed improvements through Market Harborough to improve journey times</li><li>Line speed improvements north of Derby to improve journey times</li><li>Corby track re-doubling and four-tracking south of Kettering to increase capacity and create a sixth path into London St Pancras</li><li>These and other upgrades enable a new, dedicated express service between Kettering, Corby and London St Pancras with modern trains and more seats from 2020, as well as a fleet of brand new bi-mode trains for intercity services from 2022.</li></ul><p> </p> answering member constituency Blackpool North and Cleveleys answering member printed Paul Maynard question first answered 21/12/2017 11:48:41 answering member 3926 label Biography information for Paul Maynard
tabling member	4679 label Biography information for Neil O'Brien

808843

registered interest
date	18/12/2017
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Patients: Travel
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether his Department plans to include in the Accessibility Action Plan means to assist people with disabilities in getting to hospital appointments.
tabling member constituency	Hove
tabling member printed	Peter Kyle
uin	119952
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/12/2017 answer text <p>The Government’s ambition is to ensure people with disabilities have the same access to transport and opportunities to travel as everyone else. This includes transport to attend hospital appointments.</p><p> </p><p>In August, the Department for Transport published its draft Accessibility Action Plan (AAP), setting out proposals for addressing the gaps in existing provision of transport services which serve as a barrier to people with disabilities.</p><p> </p><p>The Government will publish its response to the AAP consultation in early 2018 and a revised AAP in summer 2018. The revised Plan will include our updated proposals for improving passenger transport across all modes so that people with disabilities can travel to the destinations and appointments they need to. The Department for Transport will work with Other Government Departments, including the Department of Health as part of its development of the revised Action Plan.</p> answering member constituency Blackpool North and Cleveleys answering member printed Paul Maynard question first answered 21/12/2017 07:56:32 answering member 3926 label Biography information for Paul Maynard
tabling member	4505 label Biography information for Peter Kyle

808853

registered interest
date	18/12/2017
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Railways: South West
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Secretary of State for Transport, whether his Department has made an assessment of the level of availability of mobile phone coverage on the Penzance to London train line; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport
tabling member printed	Luke Pollard
uin	119962
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/12/2017 answer text <p>The Department published a consultation about the Great Western (GW) rail franchise, on 29 November, inviting people’s views on future priorities for improvement. The consultation document notes that mobile connectivity has been highlighted by a number of stakeholders, including the Peninsula Rail Task Force, and indicates that the specification for the next GW franchise, due to begin in April 2020, will seek proposals for significant improvements in mobile connectivity.</p> answering member constituency Blackpool North and Cleveleys answering member printed Paul Maynard question first answered 21/12/2017 09:55:19 answering member 3926 label Biography information for Paul Maynard
tabling member	4682 label Biography information for Luke Pollard

808906

registered interest
date	18/12/2017
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, which applications have been made to the HS2 Community and Environment Fund in Buckinghamshire; which of those applications have been successful; and how much was awarded to each of those successful applications.
tabling member constituency	Chesham and Amersham
tabling member printed	Mrs Cheryl Gillan
uin	120015
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/12/2017 answer text <p>To date, 12 applications to the HS2 Community and Environment Fund in Buckinghamshire have been determined. Of these, 6 were successful and the total amount of the awards offered, or to be offered, is £595,778. These awards are subject to terms and conditions, and as such, not all have been accepted by the applicants at this stage. For this reason, they are not listed here.</p><p> </p><p>It is anticipated that an announcement will be made in early 2018 with news of the first accepted awards made and their locations. Following this announcement, it is intended that there will be quarterly newsletters and website updates sharing the latest information on approved projects and allocated funding geographically, along with an interactive map and case studies.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Blackpool North and Cleveleys answering member printed Paul Maynard question first answered 21/12/2017 09:57:57 answering member 3926 label Biography information for Paul Maynard
tabling member	18 label Biography information for Dame Cheryl Gillan

808907

registered interest
date	18/12/2017
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, which people are responsible for taking decisions on the HS2 (a) Community and Environment and (b) Business and Local Economy Funds; what meetings they have attended in connection with those responsibilities; and what the decisions were which were on the agenda of each of those meetings.
tabling member constituency	Chesham and Amersham
tabling member printed	Mrs Cheryl Gillan
uin	120016
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/12/2017 answer text <p>Decisions on either the Community and Environment Fund or the Business and Local Economy Fund follow the same process. Awards below £75,000 are assessed and determined by staff at the Grant Management Body appointed for this purpose (Groundwork UK). Above this threshold, awards are assessed by Groundwork UK and then considered by an independent Panel. The Independent Panel makes a recommendation to the Secretary of State for Transport, who takes the decision. In practice, this decision may be delegated to either another Minister or a Senior Civil Servant.</p><p> </p><p>Groundwork had 13 internal panel meetings in 2017 and the Independent Panel (marked with * below) met 3 times. The projects for decision on the agenda at each meeting were as follows:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Meeting date</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Applicant</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>20/02/2017*</p></td><td><p>N/A</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>11/03/2017</p></td><td><p>Dr Challoner’s Grammar School</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>11/03/2017</p></td><td><p>Guild Hall St Mary’s Lichfield</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>25/05/2017</p></td><td><p>Bishops Itchington Primary School</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>25/05/2017</p></td><td><p>Holmer Green Cricket Club</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>06/06/2017*</p></td><td><p>N/A</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>08/06/2017</p></td><td><p>West Euston Partnership</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>08/06/2017</p></td><td><p>Friends of the Earth (Birmingham) Ltd</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>08/06/2017</p></td><td><p>Wells House Road Residents Association</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>04/07/2017</p></td><td><p>Hampton in Arden Parish Council</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>10/08/2017</p></td><td><p>Richings Park Sports Club Ltd</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>10/08/2017</p></td><td><p>Helmdon Acorns Pre-School</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>10/08/2017</p></td><td><p>Buckinghamshire Business First</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>18/08/2017</p></td><td><p>FareShare</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>18/08/2017</p></td><td><p>Buckinghamshire Business First</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>18/08/2017</p></td><td><p>Colton Village Hall</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>31/08/2017</p></td><td><p>Castlehaven Community Association</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>31/08/2017</p></td><td><p>AY Recruitment</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>31/08/2017</p></td><td><p>Chiltern Conservation Board</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>31/08/2017</p></td><td><p>Camden Collective</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>07/09/2017</p></td><td><p>Solihull Community Housing Limited</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>13/09/2017</p></td><td><p>Steeple Claydon Methodist Church</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>13/09/2017</p></td><td><p>Chiltern Conservation Board</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>27/09/2017*</p></td><td><p>Forest Enterprise England</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>05/10/2017</p></td><td><p>Camden People's Theatre</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>05/10/2017</p></td><td><p>Bengali Workers Association</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>05/10/2017</p></td><td><p>Padbury Village Football Club</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>31/10/2017</p></td><td><p>Leamington &amp; Warwick Sea Cadets</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>31/10/2017</p></td><td><p>Richings Park Sports Club Ltd</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>31/10/2017</p></td><td><p>Solihull MBC</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>31/10/2017</p></td><td><p>Wormleighton PCC</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>31/10/2017</p></td><td><p>Sulgrave Manor Trust</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>21/11/2017</p></td><td><p>Good Gym</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>21/11/2017</p></td><td><p>Coleshill Tennis Club</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>21/11/2017</p></td><td><p>Samuel Lithgow Youth Centre</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>21/11/2017</p></td><td><p>Thorpe Mandevile Village Hall Trust</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p><br>A further Groundwork internal panel meeting took place on 12 December, but this is not included in the table as the applicants in question have not yet been notified of the decisions taken.</p> answering member constituency Blackpool North and Cleveleys answering member printed Paul Maynard question first answered 21/12/2017 11:39:16 answering member 3926 label Biography information for Paul Maynard
tabling member	18 label Biography information for Dame Cheryl Gillan

808908

registered interest
date	18/12/2017
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, who is responsible for decisions as to whether an application should be made to the HS2 Community and Environment Fund or the HS2 Business and Local Economy Fund.
tabling member constituency	Chesham and Amersham
tabling member printed	Mrs Cheryl Gillan
uin	120017
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/12/2017 answer text <p>It is down to the applicant to determine whether they apply to the Community and Environment Fund or the Business and Local Economy Fund. Detailed guidance on each fund is provided on the Fund website.</p> answering member constituency Blackpool North and Cleveleys answering member printed Paul Maynard question first answered 21/12/2017 10:00:27 answering member 3926 label Biography information for Paul Maynard
tabling member	18 label Biography information for Dame Cheryl Gillan

808933

registered interest
date	18/12/2017
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	South Fylde Line
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 11 December 2017 to Question 117958 and to the Answer of 14 December 2017 to Question 118756, what information his Department holds on the basis for Northern Rail making a commercial decision to increase the frequency of trains from the current hourly service on the South Fylde line without upgrading the existing single-track line infrastructure.
tabling member constituency	Fylde
tabling member printed	Mark Menzies
uin	120042
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/12/2017 answer text <p>The Department does not hold any information on the basis for Northern Rail making a commercial decision to increase the frequency of trains from the current hourly service on the South Fylde line without upgrading the existing single-track line infrastructure as it has been deemed not feasible as outlined in the previous Parliamentary question UIN 118756.</p> answering member constituency Blackpool North and Cleveleys answering member printed Paul Maynard question first answered 21/12/2017 10:03:55 answering member 3926 label Biography information for Paul Maynard
tabling member	3998 label Biography information for Mark Menzies

808934

registered interest
date	18/12/2017
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	South Fylde Line
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 14 December 2017 to Question 118759, what discussions his Department has had with local bodies or promoters on the business case for public funding to improve connectivity in Fylde constituency by increasing the frequency of train services on the South Fylde line and installing any necessary supporting infrastructure.
tabling member constituency	Fylde
tabling member printed	Mark Menzies
uin	120043
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/12/2017 answer text <p>The Department for Transport has had no such discussions.</p> answering member constituency Blackpool North and Cleveleys answering member printed Paul Maynard question first answered 21/12/2017 07:47:53 answering member 3926 label Biography information for Paul Maynard
tabling member	3998 label Biography information for Mark Menzies

808942

registered interest
date	18/12/2017
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Southern: Standards
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what percentage of cancellations on Southern on the Brighton mainline in the last two years has been due to lack of train crew.
tabling member constituency	Mid Sussex
tabling member printed	Sir Nicholas Soames
uin	120051
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/12/2017 answer text <p>Govia Thameslink Railway (GTR) reports cancellation information to the Department at franchise level. Additionally, the rail industry systems which capture disruption data do not differentiate between cancellations as a result of lack of train crew and other causes attributed to train crew (for example operational reasons). The percentage of all GTR’s cancellations attributed to train crew issues over the past two years is 38%.</p> answering member constituency Blackpool North and Cleveleys answering member printed Paul Maynard question first answered 21/12/2017 07:52:16 answering member 3926 label Biography information for Paul Maynard
tabling member	116 label Biography information for Lord Soames of Fletching

808943

registered interest
date	18/12/2017
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Railway Stations: Stevenage
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what his policy is on the provision of an additional bay platform at Stevenage station to accommodate services from Stevenage to Hertford.
tabling member constituency	Hitchin and Harpenden
tabling member printed	Bim Afolami
uin	120052
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/12/2017 answer text <p>We are working with Network Rail to provide additional infrastructure, including a bay platform and approximately two kilometres of new track, at Stevenage station to accommodate services between Stevenage and Hertford. Our intent is for this work to be completed as soon as possible in Control Period 6 (2019-24).</p> answering member constituency Blackpool North and Cleveleys answering member printed Paul Maynard question first answered 21/12/2017 11:36:10 answering member 3926 label Biography information for Paul Maynard
tabling member	4639 label Biography information for Bim Afolami