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date	05/09/2023
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Military Bases: Concrete
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 25 April to Question 181192, whether the survey to identify buildings that may have been constructed with Reinforced Autoclaved Aerated Concrete has been completed, and whether that survey included an examination of buildings in the defence estate opened between 1990 and 2000.
tabling member constituency	Islington South and Finsbury
tabling member printed	Emily Thornberry
uin	197745
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/10/2023 answer text <p>For now, the focus is on bringing together the information we hold about the Government estate into one place. This work is being coordinated by the Office for Government Property.</p><p>Surveys are currently being conducted to identify buildings which may have been constructed with RAAC on Ministry of Defence (MOD) land.</p><p>To date, initial inspections have identified 2,820 Ministry of Defence buildings that require surveys (this number will grow as further initial inspections are completed). As at 5 September, 1,220 surveys have been completed. Buildings to be assessed include all those constructed between 1950 and 1999.</p> answering member constituency South Suffolk answering member printed James Cartlidge question first answered 25/10/2023 10:16:36 answering member 4519 label Biography information for James Cartlidge
tabling member	1536 label Biography information for Emily Thornberry

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date	06/05/2014
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what the average speed of travel of a Pendolino train was on the West Coast Mainline between (a) Euston and Birmingham, Curzon Street and (b) Euston and Handsacre in Staffordshire; and what the average speed of a train on the HS2 line is expected to be on each route.
tabling member constituency	Lichfield
tabling member printed	Michael Fabricant
uin	197745
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/05/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>The average journey time of a Pendolino between Euston and Birmingham city centre (New Street) is 1 hour 21 minutes. As set out in the Strategic Case for HS2 (October 2013), the average journey time of an HS2 train between Euston and Birmingham city centre (Curzon Street) will be 49 minutes – a saving of 32 minutes.</p><p> </p><p>The maximum line speed for a Pendolino travelling on the West Coast Main line is 125mph. HS2 is designed for a top speed of 250mph. Plans envisage services running at up to 225mph, which is becoming the standard capability for new high speed trains.</p><p> </p><p>There is no station for Handsacre on either the existing network or the HS2 network. The nearest relevant station is Crewe, for which comparative journey times are 1 hour 30 minutes for current services and 55 minutes by HS2 services – a saving of 35 minutes.</p> answering member constituency Scarborough and Whitby answering member printed Mr Robert Goodwill question first answered 12/05/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1562 label Biography information for Sir Robert Goodwill
tabling member	280 label Biography information for Michael Fabricant