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418494

	registered interest
	date	11/09/2015
	answering body	Department for Transport
	answering dept id	27
	answering dept short name	Transport
	answering dept sort name	Transport
	hansard heading	Gospel Oak-Barking Railway Line: Electrification
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what stage of the guide to railway investment projects process has the Barking to Gospel Oak electrification project reached; and whether a date has been agreed with stakeholders for reaching stage seven.
	tabling member constituency	Walthamstow
	tabling member printed	Stella Creasy
	uin	9959
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/09/2015 answer text <p>The core scheme of Gospel Oak to Barking electrification has now completed GRIP 3. Network Rail is working with stakeholders to deliver completion of works (GRIP 7) by June 2017 for this section. GRIP 3 work on the electrification of the linking lines from the core scheme to the docks and to the other London electrified lines is underway but has yet to complete.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 16/09/2015 14:45:05 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
	tabling member	4088 label Biography information for Stella Creasy

418512

	registered interest
	date	11/09/2015
	answering body	Department for Transport
	answering dept id	27
	answering dept short name	Transport
	answering dept sort name	Transport
	hansard heading	Rail Value for Money Review
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what progress his Department and Network Rail have made on meeting the rail industry efficiency targets of the McNulty Report.
	tabling member constituency	Nottingham South
	tabling member printed	Lilian Greenwood
	uin	10081
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/09/2015 answer text <p>Between 2004-14 Network Rail achieved a cumulative improvement in efficiency of around 35-40% on operating, maintaining and renewing its network, as shown in Office of Rail and Road’s (ORR) Efficiency and Financial Assessments published for Control Periods 3 and 4.　 The ORR set Network Rail a challenging target of making efficiencies on top of those already achieved of 19.4% for the period 2014-19 (Control Period 5). The evidence base for this target included the McNulty Report as well as a significant amount of top-down benchmarking, bottom-up analysis and studies.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>On train services, this Government is focused on maximising value for money for taxpayers and rail users. Since the relaunch of the franchising programme in 2013, each franchise has been subject to a detailed process of scrutiny, ensuring both that the benefits for taxpayers are realised and that the process maximises efficiencies. The success of the process in securing efficiencies of the type envisaged by McNulty is demonstrated by every successful bid achieving a better price than was originally envisaged by the Department, with consequential considerable benefits for the taxpayer.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 16/09/2015 14:56:29 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
	tabling member	4029 label Biography information for Lilian Greenwood

418513

	registered interest
	date	11/09/2015
	answering body	Department for Transport
	answering dept id	27
	answering dept short name	Transport
	answering dept sort name	Transport
	hansard heading	Network Rail
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether officials in his Department have attended any meetings of Network Rail's (a) Major Projects Delivery sub-committee, (b) Critical Infrastructure sub-committee and (c) Business Plan sub-committee since 22 January 2015.
	tabling member constituency	Nottingham South
	tabling member printed	Lilian Greenwood
	uin	10082
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/09/2015 answer text <p>No Department for Transport officials have attended any meetings of Network Rail's Major Projects Delivery sub-committee, Critical Infrastructure sub-committee or Business Plan sub-committee since 22 January 2015. However, officials from the Shareholder Executive attended eleven meetings of the Major Projects Delivery Committee in that time to observe, in order improve mutual understanding between Network Rail and the Government.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 16/09/2015 15:08:34 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
	tabling member	4029 label Biography information for Lilian Greenwood

418515

	registered interest
	date	11/09/2015
	answering body	Department for Transport
	answering dept id	27
	answering dept short name	Transport
	answering dept sort name	Transport
	hansard heading	Network Rail
	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 10 September 2015 to Question 9153, whether he received advice from officials in his Department on the potential deferral of Network Rail projects prior to 15 June 2015.
	tabling member constituency	Nottingham South
	tabling member printed	Lilian Greenwood
	uin	10084
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/09/2015 answer text <p>As the Secretary of State told the Transport Select Committee in July 2015, he received advice in September 2014 that there was a cost overrun of some £2 billion for Network Rail enhancement projects. This advice identified measures to bring costs back down. It did not advise pausing Midland Main Line electrification or Transpennine electrification.</p><p> </p><p>15<sup>th</sup> June 2015 was the first day on which that the Secretary of State received advice that these two projects should be paused.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 16/09/2015 15:34:29 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
	tabling member	4029 label Biography information for Lilian Greenwood

418516

	registered interest
	date	11/09/2015
	answering body	Department for Transport
	answering dept id	27
	answering dept short name	Transport
	answering dept sort name	Transport
	hansard heading	Rolling Stock: Standards
	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 10 September 2015 to Question 9152, and with reference to page 214 of his Department's Great Western Franchise Agreement of 22 March 2015, what advice he received from the Rail Safety and Standards Board and the Office of Rail and Road prior to his decision to include in that Agreement a requirement for the Great Western franchisee to develop proposals for main line trial deployment of converted Class 230 trains taking into account the applicability and safety implications of the deviations granted to D78 London Underground rolling stock in 2002 for (a) non-fitment of train protection and warning system in-cab equipment and (b) non-compliance with railway group standards structural requirements for windscreens and windows.
	tabling member constituency	Nottingham South
	tabling member printed	Lilian Greenwood
	uin	10085
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/09/2015 answer text <p>The Secretary of State has not decided to require the Great Western franchisee to develop proposals for main line train deployment of converted Class 230 trains.　 The obligation in the new First Great Western franchise agreement is for the Franchisee to submit an initial feasibility study.　 The franchise agreement makes clear that any proposals for a trial that might derive from that report would be subject to a separate decision by the Secretary of State and would be subject to initial examination confirming likely viability.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 16/09/2015 15:20:57 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
	tabling member	4029 label Biography information for Lilian Greenwood

417884

	registered interest
	date	09/09/2015
	answering body	Department for Transport
	answering dept id	27
	answering dept short name	Transport
	answering dept sort name	Transport
	hansard heading	Motorways: Repairs and Maintenance
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what is the annual cost of maintaining the motorway junction of the M6 with the A38(M), known as Spaghetti Junction, for each of the last 10 years.
	tabling member printed	Lord German
	uin	HL2117
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/09/2015 answer text <p>From Highways England’s records that are readily available,</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p /> <p> </p><p /> <p>(1) The last major maintenance work at the junction of the M6 and the A38 (M), known as Spaghetti Junction was undertaken in 1995.</p><p /> <p> </p><p /> <p> </p><p /> <p> </p><p /> <p>(2) The last major maintenance work at the elevated section of the M5 between junctions 1 and 2 was undertaken in 1987.</p><p /> <p> </p><p /> <p> </p><p /> <p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p /> <p>On the matter of the annual maintenance cost:</p><p /> <p> </p><p /> <p> </p><p /> <p> </p><p /> <p>The cost of maintaining the motorway junction of the M6 with the A38(M), known as Spaghetti Junction was approximately £8.2m for the 12 month period July 2014 to June2015.</p><p /> <p> </p><p /> <p> </p><p /> <p> </p><p /> <p>Costs for earlier periods are not readily available.</p><p /> <p> </p><p /> <p> </p><p /> <p> </p><p /> <p>The cost of maintaining the elevated section of the M5 between junctions 1 and 2 was approximately £2.4m for the 12 month period July 2014 to June 2015.</p><p /> <p> </p><p /> <p> </p><p /> <p> </p><p /> <p>Costs for earlier periods are not readily available.</p><p /> <p> </p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon grouped question UIN HL2116 HL2118 question first answered 16/09/2015 14:04:15 answering member 4210 label Biography information for Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon
	tabling member	4163 label Biography information for Lord German

417885

	registered interest
	date	09/09/2015
	answering body	Department for Transport
	answering dept id	27
	answering dept short name	Transport
	answering dept sort name	Transport
	hansard heading	M5
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what is the annual cost of maintaining the elevated motorway section of the M5 between junctions 1 and 2 for each of the last 10 years.
	tabling member printed	Lord German
	uin	HL2118
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/09/2015 answer text <p>From Highways England’s records that are readily available,</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p /> <p> </p><p /> <p>(1) The last major maintenance work at the junction of the M6 and the A38 (M), known as Spaghetti Junction was undertaken in 1995.</p><p /> <p> </p><p /> <p> </p><p /> <p> </p><p /> <p>(2) The last major maintenance work at the elevated section of the M5 between junctions 1 and 2 was undertaken in 1987.</p><p /> <p> </p><p /> <p> </p><p /> <p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p /> <p>On the matter of the annual maintenance cost:</p><p /> <p> </p><p /> <p> </p><p /> <p> </p><p /> <p>The cost of maintaining the motorway junction of the M6 with the A38(M), known as Spaghetti Junction was approximately £8.2m for the 12 month period July 2014 to June2015.</p><p /> <p> </p><p /> <p> </p><p /> <p> </p><p /> <p>Costs for earlier periods are not readily available.</p><p /> <p> </p><p /> <p> </p><p /> <p> </p><p /> <p>The cost of maintaining the elevated section of the M5 between junctions 1 and 2 was approximately £2.4m for the 12 month period July 2014 to June 2015.</p><p /> <p> </p><p /> <p> </p><p /> <p> </p><p /> <p>Costs for earlier periods are not readily available.</p><p /> <p> </p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon grouped question UIN HL2116 HL2117 question first answered 16/09/2015 14:04:15 answering member 4210 label Biography information for Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon
	tabling member	4163 label Biography information for Lord German