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1092596

registered interest
date	21/03/2019
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Department for Transport: Consultants
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many consultants his Department has hired since 2016; and at what cost to the taxpayer.
tabling member constituency	Bootle
tabling member printed	Peter Dowd
uin	235287
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/03/2019 answer text <p>The Department does not hold information on the number of consultants hired in any one year as this work is often commissioned as part of an outcomes based contract to ensure value for money.</p><p>The amount spent on consultants each year since 2016 is:</p><p>2016-17 - £49.59m</p><p>2017-18 - £55.22m</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 26/03/2019 11:56:20 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	4397 label Biography information for Peter Dowd

1092602

registered interest
date	21/03/2019
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Airports: Standards
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment his Department has made of the adequacy of airport capacity outside the South East.
tabling member constituency	Wolverhampton North East
tabling member printed	Emma Reynolds
uin	235293
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/03/2019 answer text <p>The Government established the independent Airports Commission, which assessed the capacity needs of the whole of the UK, before concluding that the country needs one additional runway in the South East by 2030 and noted that there would be a need for other airports to make more intensive use of their existing infrastructure.</p><p> </p><p>The Department accepted the findings of the Airports Commission and is supportive of airports across the UK making best use of their existing runway capacity, so long as they address the economic and environmental impacts and proposed mitigations.</p><p> </p><p>The Government is currently consulting on its Aviation Strategy green paper, ‘Aviation 2050; The future of UK aviation’.</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 26/03/2019 11:46:45 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	4077 label Biography information for Emma Reynolds

1092603

registered interest
date	21/03/2019
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Birmingham Airport
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment his Department has made of the potential effect of a second runway at Birmingham Airport on regional growth in the West Midlands.
tabling member constituency	Wolverhampton North East
tabling member printed	Emma Reynolds
uin	235294
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/03/2019 answer text <p>No assessment has been made. In setting out what it will deliver over the next fifteen years to 2033, Birmingham Airport’s draft Master Plan makes clear it plans to make best use of its existing runway and does not foresee a need for a second runway for some considerable time to come.</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 26/03/2019 13:42:19 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	4077 label Biography information for Emma Reynolds

1092645

registered interest
date	21/03/2019
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Transport for London: Siemens
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to his Answer of 21 March 2019 to Question 909949, Official Report, what engagement his Department's officials had in the awarding of that contract to Siemens by Transport for London and London Underground.
tabling member constituency	Warley
tabling member printed	John Spellar
uin	235261
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/03/2019 answer text <p>Transport is London is devolved to the Mayor of London and delivered by Transport for London. The awarding of a contract to Siemens to build new trains for the London Underground is solely a matter for the Mayor. My officials have no role in the awarding of the contract.</p> answering member constituency Harrogate and Knaresborough answering member printed Andrew Jones question first answered 26/03/2019 11:31:54 answering member 3996 label Biography information for Andrew Jones
tabling member	318 label Biography information for John Spellar

1092660

registered interest
date	21/03/2019
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Cycling and Walking
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 the Local Government Association on encouraging councils to use City Region Deals to increase access to cycling and walking routes.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	235309
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/03/2019 answer text <p>The Department made clear, in its 2018 response to the Cycling and Walking Investment Strategy Safety Review, that local councils should invest around 15 per cent of their local transport infrastructure funding on safe and efficient cycling and walking infrastructure. The Department continues to encourage local authorities to make use of the Transforming Cities Fund and other relevant national funding streams to support cycling and walking schemes and engages regularly with them in the development of their LCWIPs (Local Cycling and Walking Infrastructure Plans). Departmental officials have had discussions from time to time with representatives from the Local Government Association to discuss local authorities’ support for cycling and walking.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 25/03/2019 15:57:25 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

1092662

registered interest
date	21/03/2019
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Air Routes
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 increase the number of global routes to smaller airports in Belfast and Cardiff and other essential hubs.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	235311
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/03/2019 answer text <p>The Government is supportive of all airports, including Belfast and Cardiff, in creating new international connections. The Government believes that air passengers are best served by a competitive commercial airline market. It is for airlines to determine which airports they operate, based on their own assessment of costs and passenger demand.</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 26/03/2019 16:43:10 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

1092762

registered interest
date	21/03/2019
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	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what progress has been made on (a) scoping and (b) commissioning further feasibility work on whether the restoration of the Skipton to Colne link would generate enough freight and passenger traffic to be affordable.
tabling member constituency	Keighley
tabling member printed	John Grogan
uin	235280
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/03/2019 answer text <p>Work is currently progressing and we expect to receive the results later this year to inform a decision as to whether the scheme should go to the next stage ‘develop’ of the Government’s Rail Network Enhancements Pipeline.</p><p>We are working closely with Transport for the North to assess the proposed scheme and to ensure that it can be affordable, will attract sufficient traffic, and is part of the right long-term solution for the cross Transpennine rail traffic.</p><p>This is part of our new approach to rail enhancements to ensure we address the needs of passengers and freight, and that funding commitments appropriately reflect the stage of development of schemes.</p> answering member constituency Harrogate and Knaresborough answering member printed Andrew Jones question first answered 26/03/2019 11:23:40 answering member 3996 label Biography information for Andrew Jones
tabling member	382 label Biography information for John Grogan