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101981

registered interest
date	30/10/2014
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Traffic Lights
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 Report, The Operation of Traffic Signals during Low Demand Periods, published in October 2012, what trials to turn off traffic lights during such periods proposed by local authorities have taken place; what the findings were of those trials; and whether his Department has issued any further guidance on this matter.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Northfield
tabling member printed	Richard Burden
uin	212722
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/11/2014 answer text <p>The operation of traffic lights is a matter for local authorities. Part-time operation is already possible, but an authority would need to carefully consider the possible impacts, particularly on road safety.</p><p> </p><p>The Department has not carried out any trials of turning off traffic lights during low demand periods, and to date it has not been approached by any local authorities wishing to carry out such a trial.</p><p> </p><p>The Department has not issued any further guidance on this matter.</p> answering member constituency Scarborough and Whitby answering member printed Mr Robert Goodwill question first answered 04/11/2014 15:27:27 answering member 1562 label Biography information for Sir Robert Goodwill
tabling member	301 label Biography information for Richard Burden

101983

registered interest
date	30/10/2014
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Railways: Electrification
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what his Department spent on consultants on electrification in financial years (a) 2010-11, (b) 2011-12, (c) 2012-13, (d) 2013-14 and (e) 2014-15 to date.
tabling member constituency	Nottingham South
tabling member printed	Lilian Greenwood
uin	212721
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/11/2014 answer text <p>The Department commissioned technical and engineering advice from consultants in respect of electrification in 2013/14 and 2014/15.</p><p>£38,717.28 (including VAT) was spent in the financial year 2013/14.</p><p>£104,400.00 (including VAT) has been spent to date in 2014/15.</p><p>In addition, a research project was carried out in 2010 looking at electrification of Branch Lines with a value of £35,000.00</p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 04/11/2014 15:26:22 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
tabling member	4029 label Biography information for Lilian Greenwood

101989

registered interest
date	30/10/2014
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Railways: Franchises
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what the costs of administering each franchise of the Direct Awards programme are.
tabling member constituency	Nottingham South
tabling member printed	Lilian Greenwood
uin	212594
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/11/2014 answer text <p>The costs of the 4 most recently-completed Direct Award projects have been as follows:</p><p> </p><p>Northern £1.536million</p><p>Greater Anglia £1.088million</p><p>West Coast £ 0.842million</p><p>Southeastern £ 0.918million</p><p> </p><p>In Total: £ 4.384million</p><p> </p><p>These figures include staff costs, advisers, “non-pay” administrative costs (for example, IT facilities, training and travel expenses) and VAT.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 04/11/2014 15:35:16 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
tabling member	4029 label Biography information for Lilian Greenwood

101990

registered interest
date	30/10/2014
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Midland Main Line: Electrification
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what works will be required to overhead wiring south of Bedford as a result of the Midland Main Line electrification programme.
tabling member constituency	Nottingham South
tabling member printed	Lilian Greenwood
uin	212593
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/11/2014 answer text <p>The Midland Mainline is already electrified from London to Bedford. Work to improve resilience has already begun to prepare the route south of Bedford for the greater number of trains that will run and the higher speeds of the intercity electric trains. This work includes upgrading power supplies and other components.</p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 04/11/2014 15:28:38 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
tabling member	4029 label Biography information for Lilian Greenwood

101991

registered interest
date	30/10/2014
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Directly Operated Railways
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what Directly Operated Railways' staff numbers and overall budget are projected to be in each year between 2013-14 and 2016-17.
tabling member constituency	Nottingham South
tabling member printed	Lilian Greenwood
uin	212595
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/11/2014 answer text <p>Directly Operated Railways’ (DOR) staff numbers were 12 (8.3 FTE) in 2013/14 and are forecast to be 6 (3.5 FTE) at the end of 2014/15.</p><p /><p>DOR’s gross costs were £3.65 million in 2013/14 and are forecast to be £2.06 million in 2014/15. These costs are met by a combination of management charges to their subsidiary company (East Coast) and charges to the Department for Transport in respect of work undertaken on the rail franchising programme.</p><p /><p>No forecasts are available beyond 31 March 2015 at present as the future activities of the company will be reviewed following the sale of the East Coast business later this financial year.</p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 04/11/2014 15:24:46 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
tabling member	4029 label Biography information for Lilian Greenwood

101992

registered interest
date	30/10/2014
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	High Speed Two
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, on what premises officials in his Department are working on High Speed (a) 2 and (b) 3; what the square footage is of each premises; and what the annual cost per square foot of each premises is.
tabling member constituency	Chesham and Amersham
tabling member printed	Mrs Cheryl Gillan
uin	212591
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/11/2014 answer text <p>High Speed Rail Group occupy approximately 510 square metres of the third floor Great Minster House (GMH). The cost per square metre in GMH is £850 per annum including VAT. Therefore, the total cost of our accommodation in GMH is £433,500 per annum. The main point to note is that we do not pay for any of this accommodation because it is part of the Department for Transport (DfT) overheads and the Building Services do not recharge any part of DfT for such provision.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Scarborough and Whitby answering member printed Mr Robert Goodwill question first answered 04/11/2014 16:50:44 answering member 1562 label Biography information for Sir Robert Goodwill
tabling member	18 label Biography information for Dame Cheryl Gillan

101674

registered interest
date	29/10/2014
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Railways: Bridges
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will make an assessment of the potential saving to the public purse arising from placing collision protection beams at bridges which have a high incidence of strikes from lorries or other vehicles.
tabling member constituency	North East Cambridgeshire
tabling member printed	Stephen Barclay
uin	212483
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/11/2014 answer text <p>This is an operational matter for Network Rail as the responsible authority for railway infrastructure. Network Rail does place collision protection beams on many susceptible bridges where there is a history of bridge strikes. The provision of collision protection beams is a matter jointly for the highways authority and Network Rail and subject to Highway Agency design standard BD65/97.</p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 03/11/2014 15:35:32 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
tabling member	4095 label Biography information for Steve Barclay

101675

registered interest
date	29/10/2014
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Railways: Bridges
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many collisions involving a vehicle hitting a bridge resulted in a delay to train services on the King's Cross to King's Lynn line in each of the last two years.
tabling member constituency	North East Cambridgeshire
tabling member printed	Stephen Barclay
uin	212482
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/11/2014 answer text <p>This Department does not hold this detailed information as it is an operational matter for Network Rail. Full details can be obtained from Mark Carne Chief Executive of Network Rail at Kings Place, 90 York Way, London, N1 9AG.</p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 03/11/2014 15:36:35 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
tabling member	4095 label Biography information for Steve Barclay

101686

registered interest
date	29/10/2014
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	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what are the advantages of the HS2 project, in the light of the statement in the booklet <i>Rebalancing Britain</i> at page 31 that journeys from London to York via the South Yorkshire hub would take 114 minutes plus time changing trains, and via the East Midlands hub would take 121 minutes plus time changing trains, whilst the existing direct journey from London to York takes around 120 minutes without any time changing trains.
tabling member printed	Lord Jopling
uin	HL2508
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/11/2014 answer text <p>The diagrams on page 31 of the <em>Rebalancing Britain</em> report published on 27 October 2014 demonstrate how far away a destination will be from the East Midlands and Sheffield. 　We plan to operate direct HS2 services from London Euston to York after the opening of Phase Two.</p><p> </p><p>The current proposal is to operate three direct services per hour from London to York.　 The current expected fastest journey time would be eighty four minutes.</p> answering member printed Baroness Kramer question first answered 04/11/2014 13:44:26 answering member 1557 label Biography information for Baroness Kramer
tabling member	883 label Biography information for Lord Jopling

101328

registered interest
date	28/10/2014
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Taxis: Licensing
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 enable local authorities to retain information on sex offenders to inform the granting of licences to taxi drivers.
tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
uin	212298
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/11/2014 answer text <p>In 2012, the Government amended legislation to allow local authorities to undertake enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service checks on all applicants for taxi and private hire vehicle driver licences. These checks will disclose convictions for sex offences and other relevant information that local authorities can take into consideration when deciding who to license. I have asked my Noble Friend, the Minister of State for Transport (Baroness Kramer) to write to all local authorities reminding them of the importance that the Government attaches to this matter.</p> answering member constituency South Holland and The Deepings answering member printed Mr John Hayes question first answered 03/11/2014 17:06:58 answering member 350 label Biography information for Sir John Hayes
tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis