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44828

registered interest
date	24/03/2014
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
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 the benefits to children's safety of road crossing patrollers.
tabling member constituency	Harlow
tabling member printed	Robert Halfon
uin	193298
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/03/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>The Government firmly believes in localism and providing local authorities with powers to introduce measures to deal with local needs and conditions. Local authorities will invariably have a strategy to improve road safety and will prioritise their road network based on the need to reduce casualties. </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The provision of the school crossing patrol service is a matter for the local authority. Legislation gives them the power to make arrangements for the patrolling of places where children cross roads on their way to or from school, but does not impose a duty on them to do so. Funding decisions are also a matter for the local authority based on their local needs and priorities.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>It is for the Council to assess the crossing situation and determine a course of action as it is in this situation. In some cases, if the authority agrees that children from a particular school need help in crossing a busy road but have not recruited anyone, they have to think about finding other ways of making the crossing safer - for example, by putting in a pedestrian crossing.</p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Scarborough and Whitby answering member printed Mr Robert Goodwill question first answered 27/03/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1562 label Biography information for Sir Robert Goodwill
tabling member	3985 label Biography information for Robert Halfon

44829

registered interest
date	24/03/2014
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what discussions he has had with train operating companies and rolling stock companies on the availability of rolling stock to train operating companies during the periods of franchise extension.
tabling member constituency	Wakefield
tabling member printed	Mary Creagh
uin	193333
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/03/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>The Department for Transport regularly meets with the rolling stock companies to discuss the rolling stock market, including upcoming competitions and direct awards. In the development of each directly awarded franchise the Department has extensive discussions with the operator to discuss rolling stock issues, including maintenance, potential upgrades and the overall availability of stock during the period of the franchise, to ensure that appropriate levels of passenger service can be provided within the period. </p><p> </p><p>Ministers regularly meet with train operating companies and rolling stock companies to discuss a wide range of issues, including the rolling stock market. The Department expects train operators and rolling stock companies ultimately to resolve any issues with regard to the availability of rolling stock for the period of their franchise, or any extension thereof.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Wimbledon answering member printed Stephen Hammond question first answered 27/03/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1585 label Biography information for Stephen Hammond
tabling member	1579 label Biography information for Mary Creagh

44830

registered interest
date	24/03/2014
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will make it his policy that the remuneration of Network Rail executives should be reduced in response to the incidence of deaths on level crossings.
tabling member constituency	Bassetlaw
tabling member printed	John Mann
uin	193324
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/03/2014 answer text <p>I refer the Hon Member to my answer given today (UIN 193125).</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Wimbledon answering member printed Stephen Hammond question first answered 27/03/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1585 label Biography information for Stephen Hammond
tabling member	1387 label Biography information for Lord Mann

44831

registered interest
date	24/03/2014
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps he is taking to ensure that houses purchased by HS2 Limited under the Exceptional Hardship Scheme are not sold on at less than market value.
tabling member constituency	Elmet and Rothwell
tabling member printed	Alec Shelbrooke
uin	193438
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/03/2014 answer text <p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p /> <p>The Department for Transport has asked HS2 Ltd to prepare an asset management strategy that reflects best practice in the public sector and relevant policy aims for HS2, including community cohesion and the normal function of local housing markets. To date, no properties purchased under the Exceptional Hardship Scheme have been sold, or offered for sale. Any eventual sales will be undertaken with a view to obtaining the best outcome for the tax payer and for local communities.</p><p /> <p> </p><p /> <p> </p><p /> <p> </p> answering member constituency Scarborough and Whitby answering member printed Mr Robert Goodwill question first answered 27/03/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1562 label Biography information for Sir Robert Goodwill
tabling member	3997 label Biography information for Sir Alec Shelbrooke

44832

registered interest
date	24/03/2014
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how much has been allocated to Lancashire County Council to repair potholes in (a) Lancashire and (b) Rossendale.
tabling member constituency	Rossendale and Darwen
tabling member printed	Jake Berry
uin	193302
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/03/2014 answer text <p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p><p>From the £200 million to help fix potholes on the local road network announced by the Chancellor of the Exchequer in the March 2014 Budget, £168 million will be for local authorities in England. This funding will be made available through a bidding exercise and it will be for Blackburn and Darwen Council to submit a bid to the Department. Guidance on how councils can apply for this funding will be made available in the coming weeks.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Department for Transport has agreed to provide £90.1 million to Lancashire County Council for road maintenance during the financial years from 2011/12 to 2014/15. This funding can be used to help repair potholes. </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Rossendale falls within Lancashire County Council's area of responsibility and we do not allocate any funds directly to the Borough Council for road maintenance. </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Scarborough and Whitby answering member printed Mr Robert Goodwill grouped question UIN 193304 question first answered 27/03/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1562 label Biography information for Sir Robert Goodwill
tabling member	4060 label Biography information for Sir Jake Berry

44833

registered interest
date	24/03/2014
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how much has been spent on road crossing patrollers in (a) Essex and (b) Harlow constituency in the last 10 years.
tabling member constituency	Harlow
tabling member printed	Robert Halfon
uin	193303
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/03/2014 answer text <p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p><p>The Department does not hold records of the amount spent on school crossing patrol services in each local authority.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Scarborough and Whitby answering member printed Mr Robert Goodwill question first answered 27/03/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1562 label Biography information for Sir Robert Goodwill
tabling member	3985 label Biography information for Robert Halfon

44834

registered interest
date	24/03/2014
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how much has been allocated from the £200 million fund to repair potholes to Blackburn with Darwen Borough Council to repair potholes in Darwen.
tabling member constituency	Rossendale and Darwen
tabling member printed	Jake Berry
uin	193304
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/03/2014 answer text <p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p><p>From the £200 million to help fix potholes on the local road network announced by the Chancellor of the Exchequer in the March 2014 Budget, £168 million will be for local authorities in England. This funding will be made available through a bidding exercise and it will be for Blackburn and Darwen Council to submit a bid to the Department. Guidance on how councils can apply for this funding will be made available in the coming weeks.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Department for Transport has agreed to provide £90.1 million to Lancashire County Council for road maintenance during the financial years from 2011/12 to 2014/15. This funding can be used to help repair potholes. </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Rossendale falls within Lancashire County Council's area of responsibility and we do not allocate any funds directly to the Borough Council for road maintenance. </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Scarborough and Whitby answering member printed Mr Robert Goodwill grouped question UIN 193302 question first answered 27/03/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1562 label Biography information for Sir Robert Goodwill
tabling member	4060 label Biography information for Sir Jake Berry

44835

registered interest
date	24/03/2014
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
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 20 March 2014, Official Report, column 692W, on rural bus services, to which projects the £300 million funding for major bus projects has been allocated; and how much has been allocated to each.
tabling member constituency	Wakefield
tabling member printed	Mary Creagh
uin	193328
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/03/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>The table below sets out the schemes in the Department's Local Authority Major Scheme Programme which are entirely bus based or which include elements related to bus improvements. </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Scheme Name and Status</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Local Authority</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Total Cost</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>DfT Contribution</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Complete</strong></p></td><td><p><strong> </strong></p></td><td><p> £m</p></td><td><p> £m</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Mansfield Public Transport Interchange </p></td><td><p>Nottinghamshire</p></td><td><p>8.8</p></td><td><p>7.2</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Rochdale Interchange</p></td><td><p>Rochdale</p></td><td><p>11.5</p></td><td><p>7.0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Weston Package Phase 1</p></td><td><p>N. Somerset</p></td><td><p>13.4</p></td><td><p>9.3</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p><strong> </strong></p></td><td><p><strong> </strong></p></td><td><p><strong> </strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Fully Approved / Under Construction</strong></p></td><td><p><strong> </strong></p></td><td><p><strong> </strong></p></td><td><p><strong> </strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Portsmouth Tipner Interchange</p></td><td><p>Portsmouth</p></td><td><p>28.2</p></td><td><p>19.5</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Access York Phase 1</p></td><td><p>City of York</p></td><td><p>22.7</p></td><td><p>15.3</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Loughborough Town Centre Imp</p></td><td><p>Leicestershire</p></td><td><p>19.7</p></td><td><p>14.8</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Ipswich Transport Fit for 21st Century</p></td><td><p>Suffolk</p></td><td><p>21.6</p></td><td><p>18.3</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Worcester Integrated Transport</p></td><td><p>Worcestershire</p></td><td><p>19.7</p></td><td><p>14.2</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Bath Transportation Package</p></td><td><p>Bath &amp; NE Somerset</p></td><td><p>26.9</p></td><td><p>11.0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Manchester Cross City Bus</p></td><td><p>Manchester</p></td><td><p>43.2</p></td><td><p>32.5</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>S Yorkshire Bus Rapid Transit North</p></td><td><p>S Yorkshire</p></td><td><p>28.2</p></td><td><p>15.8</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Pennine Reach (Blackburn)</p></td><td><p>Blackburn w Darwen</p></td><td><p>39.8</p></td><td><p>31.9</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></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Programme Entry / Support Confirmed</strong></p></td><td><p><strong> </strong></p></td><td><p><strong> </strong></p></td><td><p><strong> </strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Bristol BRT Ashton Vale to Temple Meads</p></td><td><p>Bristol</p></td><td><p>46.7</p></td><td><p>34.5</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>South Bristol Link</p></td><td><p>N. Somerset</p></td><td><p>42.6</p></td><td><p>27.6</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Bristol BRT North Fringe to Hengrove </p></td><td><p>S. Gloucestershire</p></td><td><p>92.9</p></td><td><p>51.1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Hucknall Town Centre Imp</p></td><td><p>Nottinghamshire</p></td><td><p>12.3</p></td><td><p>8.5</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Elmbridge Transport</p></td><td><p>Gloucestershire</p></td><td><p>18.7</p></td><td><p>14.1</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Wimbledon answering member printed Stephen Hammond question first answered 27/03/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1585 label Biography information for Stephen Hammond
tabling member	1579 label Biography information for Mary Creagh

44837

registered interest
date	24/03/2014
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, when he expects to appoint the working group to assess the impact of the Equality Act 2010 (Work on Ships and Hovercraft) Regulations 2011 in the shipping industry; what the terms of reference will be for that group; and what the expected timeframe will be within which it will report its findings to Ministers.
tabling member constituency	Blackpool South
tabling member printed	Mr Gordon Marsden
uin	193494
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/03/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>Discussions have already been held with government, association and union representatives and we have a broad understanding. A meeting of interested parties will be convened within the next two months and will focus that understanding into formulating the terms of reference and to agreeing the membership of the group. The review will be fully compliant with Section 6 of the Equality Act 2010 (working on ships and hovercrafts) 2011.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Another action of that meeting will be to set the timeframe in which the Group will report back. Members of the Group will be asked to give consideration to their own timescales that will be necessary to deliver their contributions to the Group. Therefore while Section 6 sets an absolute deadline of 17<sup>th</sup> July 2016 it would be expected for the working group to publish it report before then.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Wimbledon answering member printed Stephen Hammond question first answered 27/03/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1585 label Biography information for Stephen Hammond
tabling member	465 label Biography information for Gordon Marsden

44838

registered interest
date	24/03/2014
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps he has taken to enforce the Equality Act 2010 (Work on Ships and Hovercraft) Regulations 2011 in the shipping industry; and which regulatory body is responsible for such enforcement on (a) UK and (b) overseas-flagged vessels in UK ports.
tabling member constituency	Blackpool South
tabling member printed	Mr Gordon Marsden
uin	193495
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/03/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>A contravention of the Equality Act 2010 (Work on Ships and Hovercraft) Regulations can be notified either to the port State authorities or directly to the appropriate enforcement team. For example, a breach of National Minimum Wage regulations could be reported directly to the HMRC Enforcement Team or gender discrimination could be reported to the Equal Opportunities Commission</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Enforcement action for a contravention occurring where the Regulations are applicable on UK flagged vessels would be undertaken by the relevant enforcement team (as per above) for that infringement. </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Enforcement action for a contravention on board a foreign flagged vessel, which whilst more complex in its application, would similarly be undertaken where the Regulations are applicable to either that vessel or an individual concerned. </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Wimbledon answering member printed Stephen Hammond question first answered 27/03/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1585 label Biography information for Stephen Hammond
tabling member	465 label Biography information for Gordon Marsden