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967459

	registered interest
	date	04/09/2018
	answering body	Department for Transport
	answering dept id	27
	answering dept short name	Transport
	answering dept sort name	Transport
	hansard heading	Heathrow Airport
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they have been given assurances that the £14 billion proposed costs for the Heathrow Airport expansion cover the full capacity increase to 130 million passengers per year.
	tabling member printed	Lord Grade of Yarmouth
	uin	HL9954
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/09/2018 answer text <p>The Government is clear that the Northwest Runway scheme at Heathrow will be financed by the private sector without Government support. Heathrow is a regulated airport and as such any plans for expansion, including expenditure, are subject to scrutiny from both its airline customers and the regulator with updates expected as appropriate.</p><p> </p><p>Ahead of the decision to designate the Airports National Policy Statement (NPS) the Government and its independent expert advisors concluded that, so far as can be assessed at this early stage of the process, Heathrow Airport Limited (HAL) is able to privately finance expansion without Government support.</p><p> </p><p>The Airports NPS is clear that it requires a scheme that must be “capable of delivering additional capacity of at least 260,000 air transport movements per annum” – and it is for an applicant to demonstrate how the phasing of any scheme would deliver this capacity increase in its Development Consent Order application.</p> answering member printed Baroness Sugg grouped question UIN HL9955 question first answered 13/09/2018 13:42:03 answering member 4584 label Biography information for Baroness Sugg
	tabling member	4228 label Biography information for Lord Grade of Yarmouth

967460

	registered interest
	date	04/09/2018
	answering body	Department for Transport
	answering dept id	27
	answering dept short name	Transport
	answering dept sort name	Transport
	hansard heading	Heathrow Airport
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government when they plan to publish a breakdown of the costs of Heathrow Airport expansion.
	tabling member printed	Lord Grade of Yarmouth
	uin	HL9955
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/09/2018 answer text <p>The Government is clear that the Northwest Runway scheme at Heathrow will be financed by the private sector without Government support. Heathrow is a regulated airport and as such any plans for expansion, including expenditure, are subject to scrutiny from both its airline customers and the regulator with updates expected as appropriate.</p><p> </p><p>Ahead of the decision to designate the Airports National Policy Statement (NPS) the Government and its independent expert advisors concluded that, so far as can be assessed at this early stage of the process, Heathrow Airport Limited (HAL) is able to privately finance expansion without Government support.</p><p> </p><p>The Airports NPS is clear that it requires a scheme that must be “capable of delivering additional capacity of at least 260,000 air transport movements per annum” – and it is for an applicant to demonstrate how the phasing of any scheme would deliver this capacity increase in its Development Consent Order application.</p> answering member printed Baroness Sugg grouped question UIN HL9954 question first answered 13/09/2018 13:42:03 answering member 4584 label Biography information for Baroness Sugg
	tabling member	4228 label Biography information for Lord Grade of Yarmouth

967524

	registered interest
	date	04/09/2018
	answering body	Department for Transport
	answering dept id	27
	answering dept short name	Transport
	answering dept sort name	Transport
	hansard heading	Railways: Industrial Relations
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government which organisations and companies the Minister of State for Transport (1) has met, and (2) is scheduled to meet in connection with his responsibility for rail industrial relations this year; when he saw any organisations and companies in that capacity; and when he is due to see any organisations and companies in that capacity.
	tabling member printed	Lord Rosser
	uin	HL10010
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/09/2018 answer text <p>Further to the Written Answer to HL9184, specific ministerial responsibilities are not broken down in this manner. In addition, day to day responsibility for industrial relations and disputes in the rail sector lie with the individual employers, such as transport operators and trades unions. The Minister of State for Transport has no formal role in this relationship.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>However, the Minister often meets with officials to discuss policy areas relating to rail industrial relations and receives regular weekly updates on industrial relations disputes. Also, when the Minister meets the industry’s employers, part of that engagement may include an update on their plans for improving industrial relations. In addition, where there are industry-wide questions that could benefit from engagement with trade unions then, where appropriate, the Minister may seek discussion with them. For example, invitations to meet with the Minister have been extended to ASLEF, RMT, TSSA and Unite to discuss the development of an approach for the rail industry to move towards adopting CPI as the inflation measure for industry costs and fare rises. As at 6 September, the Department for Transport has not received any positive responses to these invitations.</p> answering member printed Baroness Sugg grouped question UIN HL10011 HL10012 question first answered 18/09/2018 11:35:13 answering member 4584 label Biography information for Baroness Sugg
	tabling member	3687 label Biography information for Lord Rosser

967525

	registered interest
	date	04/09/2018
	answering body	Department for Transport
	answering dept id	27
	answering dept short name	Transport
	answering dept sort name	Transport
	hansard heading	Railways: Industrial Relations
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what proportion of the Minister of State for Transport’s time so far this year has been spent in connection with his responsibility for rail industrial relations.
	tabling member printed	Lord Rosser
	uin	HL10011
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/09/2018 answer text <p>Further to the Written Answer to HL9184, specific ministerial responsibilities are not broken down in this manner. In addition, day to day responsibility for industrial relations and disputes in the rail sector lie with the individual employers, such as transport operators and trades unions. The Minister of State for Transport has no formal role in this relationship.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>However, the Minister often meets with officials to discuss policy areas relating to rail industrial relations and receives regular weekly updates on industrial relations disputes. Also, when the Minister meets the industry’s employers, part of that engagement may include an update on their plans for improving industrial relations. In addition, where there are industry-wide questions that could benefit from engagement with trade unions then, where appropriate, the Minister may seek discussion with them. For example, invitations to meet with the Minister have been extended to ASLEF, RMT, TSSA and Unite to discuss the development of an approach for the rail industry to move towards adopting CPI as the inflation measure for industry costs and fare rises. As at 6 September, the Department for Transport has not received any positive responses to these invitations.</p> answering member printed Baroness Sugg grouped question UIN HL10010 HL10012 question first answered 18/09/2018 11:35:13 answering member 4584 label Biography information for Baroness Sugg
	tabling member	3687 label Biography information for Lord Rosser

967526

	registered interest
	date	04/09/2018
	answering body	Department for Transport
	answering dept id	27
	answering dept short name	Transport
	answering dept sort name	Transport
	hansard heading	Railways: Industrial Relations
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government why the Written Answer by Baroness Sugg on 12 July (HL9184) refers only to disputes between a transport operator and a union; and what the responsibilities of the Minister of State for Transport in connection with rail industrial relations comprise other than involvement in disputes.
	tabling member printed	Lord Rosser
	uin	HL10012
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/09/2018 answer text <p>Further to the Written Answer to HL9184, specific ministerial responsibilities are not broken down in this manner. In addition, day to day responsibility for industrial relations and disputes in the rail sector lie with the individual employers, such as transport operators and trades unions. The Minister of State for Transport has no formal role in this relationship.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>However, the Minister often meets with officials to discuss policy areas relating to rail industrial relations and receives regular weekly updates on industrial relations disputes. Also, when the Minister meets the industry’s employers, part of that engagement may include an update on their plans for improving industrial relations. In addition, where there are industry-wide questions that could benefit from engagement with trade unions then, where appropriate, the Minister may seek discussion with them. For example, invitations to meet with the Minister have been extended to ASLEF, RMT, TSSA and Unite to discuss the development of an approach for the rail industry to move towards adopting CPI as the inflation measure for industry costs and fare rises. As at 6 September, the Department for Transport has not received any positive responses to these invitations.</p> answering member printed Baroness Sugg grouped question UIN HL10010 HL10011 question first answered 18/09/2018 11:35:13 answering member 4584 label Biography information for Baroness Sugg
	tabling member	3687 label Biography information for Lord Rosser

967920

	registered interest
	date	04/09/2018
	answering body	Department for Transport
	answering dept id	27
	answering dept short name	Transport
	answering dept sort name	Transport
	hansard heading	Bridges: Standards
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to the press release entitled Number of substandard bridges rises, published by the RAC Foundation on 19 January 2018, if he will make an assessment of the implication for his policies of the statement in that release that 3,441 road bridges with spans of more than 1.5 metres are substandard.
	tabling member constituency	Middlesbrough
	tabling member printed	Andy McDonald
	uin	170336
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/09/2018 answer text <p>The management and maintenance of bridges maintainable at public expense fall under the responsibility of each highway authority as set out in the Highways Act 1980 (as amended). The Department for Transport endorses Well Managed Highway Infrastructure Code of Practice produced by the UK Roads Liaison Group which provides advice and guidance to highway authorities on maintaining their highways, including bridges. This includes advice on investigations and inspections.</p><p> </p><p>Both Highways England and local highway authorities inspection regimes covers all structures, including post tensioned bridges built pre 1992, and takes into account their design, age and likely maintenance needs.</p><p> </p><p>Furthermore, Highways England continues to develop detailed design standards and quality control processes to ensure bridges are designed and constructed to provide safe and comfortable journeys for road users.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Department for Transport has also introduced a bridge inspector certification scheme. Further details can be found here:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.lantra.co.uk/nhss/bridge-inspectors" target="_blank">https://www.lantra.co.uk/nhss/bridge-inspectors</a></p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman grouped question UIN 170337 question first answered 12/09/2018 15:02:49 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
	tabling member	4269 label Biography information for Andy McDonald

967921

	registered interest
	date	04/09/2018
	answering body	Department for Transport
	answering dept id	27
	answering dept short name	Transport
	answering dept sort name	Transport
	hansard heading	Bridges: Standards
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment has he made of the structural integrity of post-tensioned concrete bridges built before 1992; and if he will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Middlesbrough
	tabling member printed	Andy McDonald
	uin	170337
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/09/2018 answer text <p>The management and maintenance of bridges maintainable at public expense fall under the responsibility of each highway authority as set out in the Highways Act 1980 (as amended). The Department for Transport endorses Well Managed Highway Infrastructure Code of Practice produced by the UK Roads Liaison Group which provides advice and guidance to highway authorities on maintaining their highways, including bridges. This includes advice on investigations and inspections.</p><p> </p><p>Both Highways England and local highway authorities inspection regimes covers all structures, including post tensioned bridges built pre 1992, and takes into account their design, age and likely maintenance needs.</p><p> </p><p>Furthermore, Highways England continues to develop detailed design standards and quality control processes to ensure bridges are designed and constructed to provide safe and comfortable journeys for road users.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Department for Transport has also introduced a bridge inspector certification scheme. Further details can be found here:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.lantra.co.uk/nhss/bridge-inspectors" target="_blank">https://www.lantra.co.uk/nhss/bridge-inspectors</a></p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman grouped question UIN 170336 question first answered 12/09/2018 15:02:49 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
	tabling member	4269 label Biography information for Andy McDonald

967430

	registered interest
	date	04/09/2018
	answering body	Department for Transport
	answering dept id	27
	answering dept short name	Transport
	answering dept sort name	Transport
	hansard heading	M20: Repairs and Maintenance
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government how many days of work were carried out on the roadworks on the M20 between London and Folkestone in August 2018; and how many days did contractors work during August 2018 on that stretch of motorway.
	tabling member printed	Lord Carlile of Berriew
	uin	HL9928
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/09/2018 answer text <p>For Highways England’s major projects currently being carried out on the M20 between London and Folkestone, the information is provided in the table below:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Project Description</p></td><td><p>Number of days in August when live work was being carried out</p></td><td><p>Total workforce hours</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>M20 junction 3-5 smart motorway</p></td><td><p>24</p></td><td><p>27,401</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>M20 junction 10a improvements</p></td><td><p>22</p></td><td><p>32,500</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>M20 junction 8-9 Temporary Solution</p></td><td><p>25</p></td><td><p>10,707</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member printed Baroness Sugg question first answered 14/09/2018 11:30:12 answering member 4584 label Biography information for Baroness Sugg
	tabling member	1138 label Biography information for Lord Carlile of Berriew

967431

	registered interest
	date	04/09/2018
	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 percentage of planned motorway roadwork projects in the UK are completed (1) on time, and (2) within budget.
	tabling member printed	Lord Carlile of Berriew
	uin	HL9929
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/09/2018 answer text <p>The management of motorways in the UK is a devolved matter. In England, to date, Highways England has completed 23 major schemes in the current Road Investment Strategy.</p><p> </p><p>Nearly four-fifths (78 per cent) of projects were completed either ahead of schedule or on time. The remainder opened later than originally planned for a number of reasons, including unexpected contaminated ground and archaeological finds, and the addition of maintenance work to reduce the need for future roadworks.</p><p> </p><p>Of the 23 completed schemes, nearly four-fifths (78 per cent) were within budget.</p> answering member printed Baroness Sugg question first answered 14/09/2018 11:29:16 answering member 4584 label Biography information for Baroness Sugg
	tabling member	1138 label Biography information for Lord Carlile of Berriew

967453

	registered interest
	date	04/09/2018
	answering body	Department for Transport
	answering dept id	27
	answering dept short name	Transport
	answering dept sort name	Transport
	hansard heading	Department for Transport: Families
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government how many Department for Transport policies have been assessed against the Family Test; and whether they will publish any such assessments.
	tabling member printed	Baroness Eaton
	uin	HL9949
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/09/2018 answer text <p>The government is committed to supporting families. To achieve this, in 2014 we introduced the Family Test, which aims to ensure that impacts on family relationships and functioning are recognised early on during the process of policy development and help inform the policy decisions made by Ministers. There is no requirement for departments to publish the results of assessments made under the Family Test.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Sugg question first answered 14/09/2018 11:12:56 answering member 4584 label Biography information for Baroness Sugg
	tabling member	4184 label Biography information for Baroness Eaton