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	registered interest
	date	21/01/2019
	answering body	Department for Transport
	answering dept id	27
	answering dept short name	Transport
	answering dept sort name	Transport
	hansard heading	Cycling: Safety
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what recent steps he has taken to increase the safety of people that use bicycles.
	tabling member constituency	Southampton, Itchen
	tabling member printed	Royston Smith
	uin	210578
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/04/2019 answer text <p>This Government is determined to make cycling and walking safer and easier, which is why the Department for Transport undertook a major cycling and walking safety review in 2018. The response to the review, which was published on 22 November and is available at <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/speeches/governments-response-to-the-cycling-walking-investment-strategy-safety-review" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/speeches/governments-response-to-the-cycling-walking-investment-strategy-safety-review</a>, included a detailed two-year action plan.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 03/04/2019 09:45:04 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
	tabling member	4478 label Biography information for Royston Smith

1077087

	registered interest
	date	25/02/2019
	answering body	Department for Transport
	answering dept id	27
	answering dept short name	Transport
	answering dept sort name	Transport
	hansard heading	Dartford-Thurrock Crossing: Tolls
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Baroness Sugg on 21 February (HL13555), in the period 30 November 2014 to 31 December 2018 (1) what was the total amount received as a result of people paying the Dart Charge correctly and on time, (2) what was the total gross amount of penalties, following any discount for early payment, incurred by the 11,058,152 people who did not make the payment correctly, and (3) of those 11,058,152 people, how many (a) paid using the discount, (b) paid the full penalty without requiring bailiff action, and (c) required bailiff action to recover the debt; and what was the amount recovered through each of these means.
	tabling member printed	Lord Lucas
	uin	HL14007
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/03/2019 answer text <p>The total amount received as a result of people paying the Dart Charge correctly and within the required time-frame to comply with the scheme order between 30 November 2014 and 31 December 2018 is approximately £424 million.</p><p> </p><p>The total revenue received from enforcement activity is recorded in the Dartford Thurrock River Crossing audited accounts, published annually.</p><p> </p><p>Enforcement revenue includes Penalty Charge Notices paid, including at the discounted rate, and revenue from bailiff action. Information on the breakdown of enforcement revenue is being withheld because it would be prejudicial to the effective conduct of public affairs, insofar as it could reduce the effectiveness of enforcement activity and reduce compliance rates.</p> answering member printed Baroness Sugg question first answered 11/03/2019 16:43:26 answering member 4584 label Biography information for Baroness Sugg
	tabling member	1879 label Biography information for Lord Lucas

1077057

	registered interest
	date	25/02/2019
	answering body	Department for Transport
	answering dept id	27
	answering dept short name	Transport
	answering dept sort name	Transport
	hansard heading	Aviation
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what assurances they have sought or received that UK registered airlines will be able to operate post-Brexit (1) between the UK and EU destinations, and (2) between destinations within the EU.
	tabling member printed	Lord Bruce of Bennachie
	uin	HL13977
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/03/2019 answer text <p>The Government continues to work towards a Withdrawal Agreement with the EU. If that is concluded, UK airlines would continue to operate as now in the period immediately after exit under the transition arrangements. In the event that the UK leaves the EU without having concluded a Withdrawal Agreement, the EU institutions are in the process of adopting a Regulation that would temporarily maintain rights for UK airlines to operate to and from the EU, but not within the EU.</p> answering member printed Baroness Sugg question first answered 11/03/2019 12:15:44 answering member 4584 label Biography information for Baroness Sugg
	tabling member	615 label Biography information for Lord Bruce of Bennachie

1077062

	registered interest
	date	25/02/2019
	answering body	Department for Transport
	answering dept id	27
	answering dept short name	Transport
	answering dept sort name	Transport
	hansard heading	Colne-Skipton Railway Line
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written answer by Baroness Sugg on 11 February (HL13163), when it was decided that “the feasibility study into the value of reopening the Skipton to Colne railway” announced by the Secretary of State for Transport on 3 February 2018 was “only the first step in establishing the feasibility of the project”; what was the announcement made by Chris Grayling at Colne railway station on 29 January 2019, and whether and where they published that announcement.
	tabling member printed	Lord Greaves
	uin	HL13982
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/03/2019 answer text <p>As part of the normal course of business, feasibility studies will be carried out into various potential rail upgrade projects. Following consideration of the conclusions from the initial feasibility studies that were completed in early December the Government decided that further work needed to be undertaken to assess the commercial viability of the scheme and the freight demand before any commitment to progress the scheme, a project championed by Andrew Stephenson MP, the Hon Member for Pendle, to the next ‘develop’ stage of the Rail Network Enhancements Pipeline. The Secretary of State for Transport initially communicated this decision on 25 January at a meeting in Colne with the Member of Parliament for Pendle and town, Borough and County councillors, and through an interview with the Lancashire Evening Telegraph.</p> answering member printed Baroness Sugg question first answered 07/03/2019 14:56:33 answering member 4584 label Biography information for Baroness Sugg
	tabling member	2569 label Biography information for Lord Greaves

1077061

	registered interest
	date	25/02/2019
	answering body	Department for Transport
	answering dept id	27
	answering dept short name	Transport
	answering dept sort name	Transport
	hansard heading	Railways: North of England
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government whether the further work on reinstating the Colne-Skipton rail link as part of a new freight railway route between Liverpool and Yorkshire, to assess the freight demand and commercial viability of the scheme, will be undertaken by and on behalf of the Department for Transport or Transport for the North; if so (1) who is carrying out the work and whether such work has started; (2) what is the target date for its completion; and (3) what the relationship is of this work to that being carried out by Transport for the North on cross-Pennine communications in the central trans-Pennine corridor.
	tabling member printed	Lord Greaves
	uin	HL13981
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/03/2019 answer text <p>Further work to assess the freight demand and commercial viability of reinstating the Colne-Skipton link, a project championed by Andrew Stephenson MP, the Hon Member for Pendle, will be undertaken for the Department for Transport (DfT), who will work closely with Transport for the North (TfN). No decisions have been made yet on the scope and timescale of this work.</p><p> </p><p>TfN’s work on the Central Pennines Strategic Development Corridor is providing a strategic programme case for multimodal investment in this corridor. It has informed TfN’s recently published Investment Programme, which includes reinstatement of the Skipton-Colne link as a scheme. The planned DfT-led work therefore takes forward further assessment of this element of TfN’s Investment Programme.<strong> </strong></p> answering member printed Baroness Sugg question first answered 07/03/2019 14:35:29 answering member 4584 label Biography information for Baroness Sugg
	tabling member	2569 label Biography information for Lord Greaves

1077060

	registered interest
	date	25/02/2019
	answering body	Department for Transport
	answering dept id	27
	answering dept short name	Transport
	answering dept sort name	Transport
	hansard heading	Railways: North of England
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Baroness Sugg on 11 February (HL13163), what was the cost of the feasibility study into the creation of a new trans-Pennine freight railway line including the reinstatement of the Colne-Skipton line, that was announced by Chris Grayling on 3 February 2018; what is the estimated cost of the further work that is “still in progress” in order to “assess further the freight demand and commercial viability of the scheme”; and whether they will publish the terms of reference for this further work
	tabling member printed	Lord Greaves
	uin	HL13980
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/03/2019 answer text <p>As part of the normal course of business, feasibility studies will be carried out into various potential rail upgrade projects. The total cost of the studies carried out by Network Rail and the Department’s consultants (Steer) to assess the feasibility, costs and benefits for reinstating the Skipton-Colne line for passengers and freight, a project championed by Andrew Stephenson MP, the Hon Member for Pendle, as part of a new Trans-Pennine rail route was £210,360.</p><p> </p><p>Further feasibility work to confirm whether this scheme can be made affordable, will attract sufficient traffic, and is part of the right long-term solution for trans-Pennine rail traffic will be commissioned by the Department for Transport working closely with Transport for the North. It will be funded from the Department’s existing resources. The scope and cost is yet to be determined.</p> answering member printed Baroness Sugg question first answered 07/03/2019 14:33:51 answering member 4584 label Biography information for Baroness Sugg
	tabling member	2569 label Biography information for Lord Greaves

1077049

	registered interest
	date	25/02/2019
	answering body	Department for Transport
	answering dept id	27
	answering dept short name	Transport
	answering dept sort name	Transport
	hansard heading	Channel Ferries: Freight
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Baroness Sugg on 21 February (HL13574), what they have spent or committed, in staff, consultancy and other costs, on work related to the procurement exercise to secure additional freight capacity after Brexit; and what assessment they have made of the impact on such costs of the approach to nine companies and the award to only three.
	tabling member printed	Lord Berkeley
	uin	HL13971
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/03/2019 answer text <p>Combined costs of external legal, financial and project assurance advice on all three freight contracts including legal advice up to the end of December 2018 were approximately £800,000. Subsequent costs cannot yet be derived as contracts are still live and invoices pending.</p><p> </p><p>Preliminary discussions with the wider set of nine operators, to assess market appetite and help secure value for money, were undertaken as part of the Department’s broader Maritime EU Exit work, and could not accurately be disaggregated without disproportionate cost; no external consultancy costs were incurred in this exercise.</p> answering member printed Baroness Sugg question first answered 06/03/2019 11:44:53 answering member 4584 label Biography information for Baroness Sugg
	tabling member	3526 label Biography information for Lord Berkeley

1064612

	registered interest
	date	20/02/2019
	answering body	Department for Transport
	answering dept id	27
	answering dept short name	Transport
	answering dept sort name	Transport
	hansard heading	Department for Transport: Billing
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government which sub-central public bodies associated with the Department of Transport are within scope of Regulation 113 of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 requiring contracting authorities to pay undisputed invoices within 30 days and to publish their payment performance online.
	tabling member printed	Lord Mendelsohn
	uin	HL13931
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/03/2019 answer text <p>The information required to answer this PQ is not held in the format requested.</p><p> </p><p>As a guide, the Department for Transport’s Executive Agencies (the Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency, Maritime and Coastguard Agency, Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency, and Vehicle Certification Agency) in the main operate under the Public Contracts Regulations 2015, whilst arm’s length bodies such as HS2 and Network Rail ordinarily operate under the Utilities Contracts Regulations 2016 whenever they are procuring works, services or supplies contracts.</p> answering member printed Baroness Sugg question first answered 06/03/2019 11:44:19 answering member 4584 label Biography information for Baroness Sugg
	tabling member	4286 label Biography information for Lord Mendelsohn

1064597

	registered interest
	date	20/02/2019
	answering body	Department for Transport
	answering dept id	27
	answering dept short name	Transport
	answering dept sort name	Transport
	hansard heading	Electric Vehicles
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what steps they intend to take to assist the British Vehicle Rental and Leasing Association to deliver its 2018 Plug-in Pledge that will see its members' combined plug-in vehicle fleet size increase from 50,000 to 720,000 by 2025.
	tabling member printed	Lord Campbell-Savours
	uin	HL13916
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/03/2019 answer text <p>This initiative from the British Vehicle Rental and Leasing Association is most welcome. Many forward thinking businesses and consumers are already benefiting from whole life cost savings that can be made from choosing plug-in vehicles. The Government already offers the Plug-in Car Grant to help with the cost of purchasing electric vehicles and has pledged that this will continue in some form until at least 2020. Consumer incentives in some form will continue to play a role beyond 2020. The Government has established a favourable tax regime to incentivise the purchase of the cleanest vehicles, in particular zero emission vehicles.</p><p> </p><p>The Government recognises that the availability of adequate charging infrastructure is vital and offers a variety of grant funding schemes to support recharging infrastructure in motorists’ homes, workplaces and on residential streets. The Charging Infrastructure Investment Fund (CIIF), funded with £200m of new Government investment and matched by £200m from private investors, will accelerate the roll-out of charging infrastructure and enable thousands more publicly accessible chargepoints. The full range of steps that the Government is taking was set out in the Road To Zero Strategy in July 2018.</p> answering member printed Baroness Sugg question first answered 06/03/2019 11:43:34 answering member 4584 label Biography information for Baroness Sugg
	tabling member	499 label Biography information for Lord Campbell-Savours

1077125

	registered interest
	date	25/02/2019
	answering body	Department for Transport
	answering dept id	27
	answering dept short name	Transport
	answering dept sort name	Transport
	hansard heading	Aviation: Recruitment
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask Secretary of State for Transport, what steps he is taking to ensure that demand for pilots is being met in the aviation sector.
	tabling member constituency	Strangford
	tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
	uin	225509
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/03/2019 answer text <p>Through the Government’s Aviation Strategy consultation, the Department is working with industry to ensure the next generation of aviation professionals is both attracted and retained. The consultation includes proposals for overcoming financial, social mobility and diversity barriers which may prevent skilled individuals from entering the aviation sector.</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 05/03/2019 13:02:44 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
	tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon