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692659

	registered interest
	date	21/02/2017
	answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
	answering dept id	29
	answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
	answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
	hansard heading	Employment and Support Allowance: Work Capability Assessment
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, when he plans to introduce new rules which will not require reassessments for employment and support allowance for people with severe life-long conditions; and if he will publish the criteria by which severe life-long conditions are defined as such for the purposes of exemption from those assessments.
	tabling member constituency	Sheffield South East
	tabling member printed	Mr Clive Betts
	uin	64797
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/02/2017 answer text <p>This change will come into effect in Autumn 2017 and will apply to those placed in Employment and Support Allowance’s Support Group and the Universal Credit equivalent.</p><p> </p><p>We are currently working with stakeholders to develop the new criteria and, when finalised, the amended guidance will be incorporated in to the next update to the Work Capability Assessment Handbook published on GOV.UK.</p> answering member constituency Portsmouth North answering member printed Penny Mordaunt question first answered 24/02/2017 12:53:24 answering member 4017 label Biography information for Penny Mordaunt
	tabling member	394 label Biography information for Mr Clive Betts

679790

	registered interest
	date	27/01/2017
	answering body	Department for Transport
	answering dept id	27
	answering dept short name	Transport
	answering dept sort name	Transport
	hansard heading	High Speed 2 Line: South Yorkshire
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether his Department is considering any alternative routes for High Speed 2 through South Yorkshire in addition to a line through Meadowhall and the route east of Rotherham with a branch to Sheffield Midland Station.
	tabling member constituency	Sheffield South East
	tabling member printed	Mr Clive Betts
	uin	62138
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/02/2017 answer text <p>The Government announced their preferred HS2 route in South Yorkshire on 15 November in <em>High Speed Two: from Crewe to Manchester, the West Midlands to Leeds and beyond</em> (Cm 9355). Our proposal is that HS2 should serve Sheffield city centre through a spur off the proposed HS2 line, enabling HS2 trains to run into Sheffield along the existing rail network. This proposal is currently subject to public consultation.</p><p> </p><p>In the process of making a final decision about the HS2 route in South Yorkshire the Government will take into account work that HS2 Ltd will have carried out, both in the past and more recently, into alternative routes to both the Meadowhall and M18 route.</p> answering member constituency Harrogate and Knaresborough answering member printed Andrew Jones question first answered 01/02/2017 14:18:22 answering member 3996 label Biography information for Andrew Jones
	tabling member	394 label Biography information for Mr Clive Betts

677602

	registered interest
	date	23/01/2017
	answering body	Department for Transport
	answering dept id	27
	answering dept short name	Transport
	answering dept sort name	Transport
	hansard heading	M1
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, when the Smart Motorway between junctions 32 and 35a of the M1 is due to open; and whether any speed limits are to be imposed on that section of the M1.
	tabling member constituency	Sheffield South East
	tabling member printed	Mr Clive Betts
	uin	61237
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/01/2017 answer text <p>Smart Motorways are at the core of Highways England’s £15bn investment programme to transform England’s Strategic Road Network, helping to ease congestion and improve traffic flow. Keeping traffic moving reduces stop-start decelerations and accelerations, which in itself has air quality benefits.</p><p> </p><p>Highways England will announce any measures to improve air quality on the M1 between junctions 32-35a when the Smart Motorway scheme opens, which is expected to be in March 2017.</p><p> </p><p>Highways England has undertaken environmental assessments of the scheme during the design and construction. These are available on Highways England’s website.</p> answering member constituency South Holland and The Deepings answering member printed Mr John Hayes grouped question UIN 61159 61236 61251 question first answered 26/01/2017 16:03:53 answering member 350 label Biography information for Sir John Hayes
	tabling member	394 label Biography information for Mr Clive Betts

679791

	registered interest
	date	27/01/2017
	answering body	Department for Transport
	answering dept id	27
	answering dept short name	Transport
	answering dept sort name	Transport
	hansard heading	High Speed 2 Line: South Yorkshire
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what the estimated cost is of the Meadowhall station and viaduct as part of one option for the High Speed 2 route through South Yorkshire; and whether that cost has changed since the original route was announced.
	tabling member constituency	Sheffield South East
	tabling member printed	Mr Clive Betts
	uin	62120
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/02/2017 answer text <p>The financial case for Phase 2b, published in November 2016, set out that the cost of the route including Meadowhall station would be £858m higher than the option of serving Sheffield Midland station. This comparison in costs reflects estimates that have been updated for the Meadowhall route since they were originally produced.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Harrogate and Knaresborough answering member printed Andrew Jones question first answered 01/02/2017 15:28:22 answering member 3996 label Biography information for Andrew Jones
	tabling member	394 label Biography information for Mr Clive Betts

677610

	registered interest
	date	23/01/2017
	answering body	Department for Transport
	answering dept id	27
	answering dept short name	Transport
	answering dept sort name	Transport
	hansard heading	M1: Exhaust Emissions
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what plans he has to reduce nitrogen dioxide and particulate pollution levels between junctions 33 and 34 of the M1 to the level set down as acceptable in relevant EU directives; and over what timescale he plans to make those reductions.
	tabling member constituency	Sheffield South East
	tabling member printed	Mr Clive Betts
	uin	61251
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/01/2017 answer text <p>Smart Motorways are at the core of Highways England’s £15bn investment programme to transform England’s Strategic Road Network, helping to ease congestion and improve traffic flow. Keeping traffic moving reduces stop-start decelerations and accelerations, which in itself has air quality benefits.</p><p> </p><p>Highways England will announce any measures to improve air quality on the M1 between junctions 32-35a when the Smart Motorway scheme opens, which is expected to be in March 2017.</p><p> </p><p>Highways England has undertaken environmental assessments of the scheme during the design and construction. These are available on Highways England’s website.</p> answering member constituency South Holland and The Deepings answering member printed Mr John Hayes grouped question UIN 61159 61236 61237 question first answered 26/01/2017 16:03:53 answering member 350 label Biography information for Sir John Hayes
	tabling member	394 label Biography information for Mr Clive Betts

681365

	registered interest
	date	30/01/2017
	answering body	Department for Transport
	answering dept id	27
	answering dept short name	Transport
	answering dept sort name	Transport
	hansard heading	M1: Exhaust Emissions
	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 26 January 2017 to Question 61251, what steps he is taking to ensure that when the smart motorway opens on the M1 between junctions 32 and 35a there will be no increase in NO2 or particulate levels.
	tabling member constituency	Sheffield South East
	tabling member printed	Mr Clive Betts
	uin	62375
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/02/2017 answer text <p>Smart Motorways are at the core of Highways England’s £15bn investment programme to transform England’s Strategic Road Network, helping to ease congestion and improve traffic flow. Keeping traffic moving reduces stop-start decelerations and accelerations, which in itself has air quality benefits.</p><p> </p><p>Highways England will announce any measures to improve air quality on the M1 between junctions 32-35a when the Smart Motorway scheme opens, which is expected to be in March 2017.</p><p> </p><p>Highways England has undertaken environmental assessments of the scheme during the design and construction. These are available on Highways England’s website.</p> answering member constituency South Holland and The Deepings answering member printed Mr John Hayes question first answered 02/02/2017 15:25:17 answering member 350 label Biography information for Sir John Hayes
	tabling member	394 label Biography information for Mr Clive Betts

679792

	registered interest
	date	27/01/2017
	answering body	Department for Transport
	answering dept id	27
	answering dept short name	Transport
	answering dept sort name	Transport
	hansard heading	M1: Exhaust Emissions
	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 23 January 2017 to Question 61251, what steps he is taking to ensure that when the smart motorway opens between junctions 32 and 35a mitigation measures to improve air quality will at least offset any additional pollution from the expected increase in traffic volumes.
	tabling member constituency	Sheffield South East
	tabling member printed	Mr Clive Betts
	uin	62124
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/02/2017 answer text <p>Smart Motorways are at the core of Highways England’s £15bn investment programme to transform England’s Strategic Road Network, helping to ease congestion and improve traffic flow. Keeping traffic moving reduces stop-start decelerations and accelerations, which in itself has air quality benefits.</p><p> </p><p>Highways England will announce any measures to improve air quality on the M1 between junctions 32-35a when the Smart Motorway scheme opens, which is expected to be in March 2017.</p><p> </p><p>Highways England has undertaken environmental assessments of the scheme during the design and construction. These are available on Highways England’s website.</p> answering member constituency South Holland and The Deepings answering member printed Mr John Hayes question first answered 01/02/2017 14:15:07 answering member 350 label Biography information for Sir John Hayes
	tabling member	394 label Biography information for Mr Clive Betts

690468

	registered interest
	date	17/02/2017
	answering body	Department for Transport
	answering dept id	27
	answering dept short name	Transport
	answering dept sort name	Transport
	hansard heading	High Speed 2 Line: South Yorkshire
	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 1 February 2017 to Question 62138, on High Speed Railway Line 2: South Yorkshire, what the alternative routes to Meadowhall are that HS2 Ltd has carried out work into (a) in the past, (b) more recently and (c) currently.
	tabling member constituency	Sheffield South East
	tabling member printed	Mr Clive Betts
	uin	64248
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/02/2017 answer text <p>In developing proposals for HS2 before the 2013 consultation, HS2 Ltd published a large number of alternative routes in South Yorkshire (<a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/options-for-phase-two-of-the-high-speed-rail-network" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/options-for-phase-two-of-the-high-speed-rail-network</a>).</p><p> </p><p>Subsequently, HS2 Ltd has reviewed these and some other alternatives in preparing recommendations to the Secretary of State before the November 2016 Command Paper. The ‘M18’ route and the spur to Sheffield are two of these alternatives. To prevent unnecessary blight, details of other alternatives have not been published.</p><p> </p><p>As HS2 Ltd develops the programme, including in response to the current consultation, it will continue to look at route refinements to meet engineering, environmental, stakeholder and other factors.</p> answering member constituency Harrogate and Knaresborough answering member printed Andrew Jones question first answered 22/02/2017 10:45:39 answering member 3996 label Biography information for Andrew Jones
	tabling member	394 label Biography information for Mr Clive Betts

690466

	registered interest
	date	17/02/2017
	answering body	Department for Transport
	answering dept id	27
	answering dept short name	Transport
	answering dept sort name	Transport
	hansard heading	M1: Exhaust Emissions
	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 1 February 2017 to Question 62124, whether there will be further public consultation on measures to mitigate increases in air pollution before the smart motorway, between junctions 32 to 35a of the M1 opens.
	tabling member constituency	Sheffield South East
	tabling member printed	Mr Clive Betts
	uin	64245
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/02/2017 answer text <p>There are no plans for any further public consultation before the smart motorway opens between junctions 32 to 35a of the M1.</p> answering member constituency South Holland and The Deepings answering member printed Mr John Hayes question first answered 22/02/2017 17:38:02 answering member 350 label Biography information for Sir John Hayes
	tabling member	394 label Biography information for Mr Clive Betts

690467

	registered interest
	date	17/02/2017
	answering body	Department for Transport
	answering dept id	27
	answering dept short name	Transport
	answering dept sort name	Transport
	hansard heading	High Speed 2 Line: South Yorkshire
	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 1 February 2017 to Question 62120, on High Speed Railway Line 2: South Yorkshire, what the increase has been in the estimated cost of the Meadowhall route since the first estimate was made; and for what reasons that estimated cost has risen.
	tabling member constituency	Sheffield South East
	tabling member printed	Mr Clive Betts
	uin	64247
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/02/2017 answer text <p>The Chancellor’s Spending Review announcement in November 2015 set out an updated funding envelope of £55.7bn in 2015 prices for delivering the HS2 project. The envelope was previously £50.1bn in 2011 prices as set out in the 2013 Spending Round. The cost of building HS2 has not changed since the 2013 Spending Round, as the long-term funding envelope has simply been uprated to 2015 prices to take account of inflation. Cost estimates for specific sections of route were revised in accordance with these figures. We do not provide further funding breakdowns for specific items due to commercial sensitivities.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Harrogate and Knaresborough answering member printed Andrew Jones question first answered 22/02/2017 10:51:02 answering member 3996 label Biography information for Andrew Jones
	tabling member	394 label Biography information for Mr Clive Betts