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1036927

	registered interest
	date	07/01/2019
	answering body	Department for Transport
	answering dept id	27
	answering dept short name	Transport
	answering dept sort name	Transport
	hansard heading	West of England Line
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the cost of upgrading all of the railway line between Waterloo and Exeter to double track.
	tabling member printed	Lord Patten
	uin	HL12569
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/01/2019 answer text <p>Network Rail’s 2015 Wessex Route Study concluded that the forecast levels of growth between Salisbury and Exeter did not justify the need for additional sections of double track. Therefore, upgrading the single track sections of the line between London Waterloo and Exeter to double track is not a priority in the next Control Period (CP6). Further consideration may be given to this matter in Network Rail’s long term planning considerations for subsequent control periods.</p> answering member printed Baroness Sugg question first answered 17/01/2019 13:21:38 answering member 4584 label Biography information for Baroness Sugg
	tabling member	1137 label Biography information for Lord Patten

1037587

	registered interest
	date	08/01/2019
	answering body	Department for Transport
	answering dept id	27
	answering dept short name	Transport
	answering dept sort name	Transport
	hansard heading	Seaborne Freight
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government whether, before awarding Seaborne Freight a contract to provide additional shipping services to and from Ramsgate in the event of a no deal Brexit, they complied with the provisions of section 7 of the Government Functional Standards for General Grants Guidance that "all Government grants shall be subject to timely and proportionate due diligence and fraud risk assessment"; and whether they will place a copy of any contract due diligence report in the Library of the House.
	tabling member printed	Lord Berkeley
	uin	HL12646
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/01/2019 answer text <p>No grants have been made to Seaborne Freight, nor are there any plans to make any. Seaborne Freight has been contracted to provide ferry services and will only be paid for those services after they have been provided.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Sugg question first answered 17/01/2019 13:39:43 answering member 4584 label Biography information for Baroness Sugg
	tabling member	3526 label Biography information for Lord Berkeley

1036902

	registered interest
	date	07/01/2019
	answering body	Department for Transport
	answering dept id	27
	answering dept short name	Transport
	answering dept sort name	Transport
	hansard heading	Railways: Franchises
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the use of auctions to award rail franchises; and whether they intend to use the same process to award future franchises.
	tabling member printed	Lord Myners
	uin	HL12544
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/01/2019 answer text <p>The Williams Rail Review is looking at the current franchising system and considering how it can best support the public and private sector to work together, while delivering benefits for passengers, freight and taxpayers.</p><p> </p><p>The Department will publish a White Paper on the review’s recommendations, with the implementation of reforms planned to start from 2020. Whilst the Review is underway, we will continue to work closely with the industry to ensure that rail delivers the day-to-day performance and transformational improvements that passengers expect.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Sugg question first answered 17/01/2019 13:28:43 answering member 4584 label Biography information for Baroness Sugg
	tabling member	3869 label Biography information for Lord Myners

1041226

	registered interest
	date	14/01/2019
	answering body	Department for Transport
	answering dept id	27
	answering dept short name	Transport
	answering dept sort name	Transport
	hansard heading	Railways: Franchises
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what plans they have, if any, to amend the rail franchise bidding process and franchise specification to require bidders for a franchise to assess the scope for utilising unused capacity at certain times of day on passenger services for the carriage of lower volume and higher value freight.
	tabling member printed	Baroness Randerson
	uin	HL12808
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/01/2019 answer text <p>The Government is committed to transporting more goods by rail and we support the carriage of goods on passenger trains. Our Rail Freight Strategy, published in September 2016, identified the opportunity for the use of space on passenger rail services to transport goods.</p><p> </p><p>The Department for Transport’s freight and franchising teams are working closely to ensure that current and future freight flows are properly considered as part of the franchise design process. We encourage passenger operators to explore innovative ways to exploit the carriage of goods on passenger services, and would be supportive of proposals to do so in the bidding process.</p> answering member printed Baroness Sugg question first answered 17/01/2019 11:52:22 answering member 4584 label Biography information for Baroness Sugg
	tabling member	4230 label Biography information for Baroness Randerson

1038733

	registered interest
	date	09/01/2019
	answering body	Department for Transport
	answering dept id	27
	answering dept short name	Transport
	answering dept sort name	Transport
	hansard heading	Railway Stations: EU Law
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what derogations from EU legislation the UK has in respect of the heights of platforms at UK railway stations.
	tabling member printed	Lord German
	uin	HL12702
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/01/2019 answer text <p>The EU Infrastructure Technical Specification for Interoperability contains an exemption allowing new or upgraded UK railway station platforms to be built to a nominal height of 915mm.</p> answering member printed Baroness Sugg question first answered 17/01/2019 11:51:21 answering member 4584 label Biography information for Baroness Sugg
	tabling member	4163 label Biography information for Lord German

1038726

	registered interest
	date	09/01/2019
	answering body	Department for Transport
	answering dept id	27
	answering dept short name	Transport
	answering dept sort name	Transport
	hansard heading	Port of Ramsgate: Channel Ferries
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government which ferries are planned to operate the Ramsgate–Ostend route from 30 March 2019; where and when they were built; whether they will conform to the latest Maritime and Coastguard Agency regulations applicable to roll-on roll-off ferries published after the MS Herald of Free Enterprise disaster; and what, if any, safety derogations they will be given.
	tabling member printed	Lord Berkeley
	uin	HL12697
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/01/2019 answer text <p>Specific vessel arrangements are a matter for operators. All vessels must comply with all regulatory requirements that apply to them.</p> answering member printed Baroness Sugg question first answered 17/01/2019 13:51:52 answering member 4584 label Biography information for Baroness Sugg
	tabling member	3526 label Biography information for Lord Berkeley

1038904

	registered interest
	date	10/01/2019
	answering body	Department for Transport
	answering dept id	27
	answering dept short name	Transport
	answering dept sort name	Transport
	hansard heading	Channel Ferries: Government Assistance
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the letter sent by the President of Getlink to the Secretary of State for Transport on 2 January, whether (1) the provision of £103 million to ferry operators for the provision of additional cross-Channel freight capacity breaches the concession agreement with Eurotunnel, and (2) they conducted an assessment of the impact on obligations under competition and state aid law.
	tabling member printed	Lord Campbell-Savours
	uin	HL12741
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/01/2019 answer text <p>In the Government's view, the contracts do not breach the concession agreement with Eurotunnel. Obligations under competition and state aid law were taken into account as part of the contractual process.</p> answering member printed Baroness Sugg question first answered 17/01/2019 14:22:14 answering member 4584 label Biography information for Baroness Sugg
	tabling member	499 label Biography information for Lord Campbell-Savours

1038749

	registered interest
	date	09/01/2019
	answering body	Department for Transport
	answering dept id	27
	answering dept short name	Transport
	answering dept sort name	Transport
	hansard heading	Airports: Unmanned Air Vehicles
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they intend to introduce urgent legislation to immediately implement a five-kilometre drone exclusion zone as proposed by the British Airline Pilots Association for all commercial and military airports; if so, when; and if not, why not.
	tabling member printed	Lord Naseby
	uin	HL12715
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/01/2019 answer text <p>As set out in my recent Statement [7 January 2019 vol 794] on the Government’s response to our recent consultation <em>Taking Flight: The Future of Drones in the UK,</em> we will be taking forward several measures to ensure that passengers have confidence that their journeys will not be disrupted by drones, that aircraft can safely use our key transport hubs and that criminals misusing drones can be brought to justice.</p><p> </p><p>Although any restriction zone would not have prevented a deliberate incident such as that seen recently at Gatwick, we want to ensure that proportionate measures are in place at airports to protect aircraft and avoid potential conflict with legitimate drone activity. We will therefore introduce additional protections around airports, with a particular focus on protected exclusion zones 5km from runway ends at a width of 1km, alongside increasing the current restrictions to the extent of existing Aerodrome Traffic Zones (ATZ) around airports. Drone pilots wishing to fly within these zones must only do so with permission from the aerodrome air traffic control. The Department for Transport will amend the Air Navigation Order 2016 to implement these changes.</p> answering member printed Baroness Sugg question first answered 17/01/2019 14:17:11 answering member 4584 label Biography information for Baroness Sugg
	tabling member	1251 label Biography information for Lord Naseby

1038566

	registered interest
	date	09/01/2019
	answering body	Department for Transport
	answering dept id	27
	answering dept short name	Transport
	answering dept sort name	Transport
	hansard heading	South Eastern Rail Franchise
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what guidance he had issued to the operator of the Southeastern rail franchise in relation to potential disruption as a result of a requirement for additional paths for rail freight services to Dover and Folkstone in the event that the UK leaves the EU without a deal.
	tabling member constituency	Middlesbrough
	tabling member printed	Andy McDonald
	uin	206824
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/01/2019 answer text <p>We have not issued any guidance to Southeastern in relation to arrangements for cross-border rail freight services in the event of the UK leaving the EU without a deal. This is because potential contingency options we are currently exploring would not disrupt passenger services and do not involve any changes to passenger services.</p> answering member constituency Epsom and Ewell answering member printed Chris Grayling question first answered 17/01/2019 15:51:57 answering member 1413 label Biography information for Chris Grayling
	tabling member	4269 label Biography information for Andy McDonald

1041250

	registered interest
	date	14/01/2019
	answering body	Department for Transport
	answering dept id	27
	answering dept short name	Transport
	answering dept sort name	Transport
	hansard heading	Roads: Repairs and Maintenance
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what funding has been provided to the London Borough of Redbridge to tackle potholes in each year since 2010; and how that funding compares with the average funding allocated in each year to local authorities in (a) Greater London and (b) England.
	tabling member constituency	Ilford North
	tabling member printed	Wes Streeting
	uin	208299
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/01/2019 answer text <p>The responsibility for local highways maintenance in London, including repairing potholes, is a devolved matter and therefore falls to Transport for London and the London Boroughs. Since 2010, the Department for Transport has allocated London Boroughs with additional funding to help repair potholes, as set out in the table below:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Financial Year £m</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Funding Stream</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Redbridge</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Total for London </strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010/11</p></td><td><p>Severe Weather</p></td><td><p>0.124</p></td><td><p>3.387</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010/11</p></td><td><p>Winter 2011</p></td><td><p>0.270</p></td><td><p>10.284</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013/14</p></td><td><p>Winter 2014 (paid to TfL)</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>10.000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014/15</p></td><td><p>Pothole Fund</p></td><td><p>0.325</p></td><td><p>10.000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017/18</p></td><td><p>Budget – additional funding</p></td><td><p>0.064</p></td><td><p>2.234</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2018/19</p></td><td><p>Budget – highways maintenance additional funding</p></td><td><p>0.550</p></td><td><p>20.000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Total</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>1.333</p></td><td><p>55.905</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p><em>‘Total for London’ includes Redbridge figure.</em></p><p> </p><p>Funding for local highway authorities in England, outside London, for highways maintenance, which includes pothole repair, is available on the Department for Transport website. The latest information can be found at the following link: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/roads-funding-information-pack" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/roads-funding-information-pack</a></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 17/01/2019 14:47:23 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
	tabling member	4504 label Biography information for Wes Streeting