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846970

	registered interest
	date	22/02/2018
	answering body	Department for Transport
	answering dept id	27
	answering dept short name	Transport
	answering dept sort name	Transport
	hansard heading	Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency: Staff
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment he has made of whether the work load of the DVLA's medical section has increased in the last five years; and how many extra staff have been hired in that section in that same period.
	tabling member constituency	Denton and Reddish
	tabling member printed	Andrew Gwynne
	uin	129144
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/03/2018 answer text <p>The number of medical cases dealt with by the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA) has increased from 656,000 in 2013/14 to 741,000 in 2017/18.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>Since April 2013, the number of staff in the DVLA’s medical section has increased by 218. This includes an increase in the number of doctors employed from 22 to 36. Ten nurses were also recruited for the first time in 2017. The doctors and nurses employed by the DVLA deal with the most complex medical cases.</p><p> </p><p>During this time, DVLA has also made significant changes to IT systems and processes to improve customer service and increase efficiency. This includes the online service introduced in October 2016 to allow customers to notify the DVLA of a medical condition or renew a driving licence previously issued following a medical condition.</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 02/03/2018 11:54:08 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
	tabling member	1506 label Biography information for Andrew Gwynne

846971

	registered interest
	date	22/02/2018
	answering body	Department for Transport
	answering dept id	27
	answering dept short name	Transport
	answering dept sort name	Transport
	hansard heading	Driving Licences
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what estimate he has made of the number of people who did not inform the DVLA of medical conditions as required in each the last five years; and what assessment he has made of the reasons people do not so inform the DVLA.
	tabling member constituency	Denton and Reddish
	tabling member printed	Andrew Gwynne
	uin	129145
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/03/2018 answer text <p>Information is not held on the number of people who fail to comply with their legal obligation to notify the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA) of a medical condition that may affect their fitness to drive.</p><p>The UK’s roads are among the safest in the world and there is no evidence to suggest that there is a widespread road safety issue related to drivers who may be driving inappropriately due to a prescribed medical condition.</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 02/03/2018 09:48:23 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
	tabling member	1506 label Biography information for Andrew Gwynne

846972

	registered interest
	date	22/02/2018
	answering body	Department for Transport
	answering dept id	27
	answering dept short name	Transport
	answering dept sort name	Transport
	hansard heading	Driving Licences
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many people were prosecuted for failing to inform DVLA of medical conditions in each of the last five years.
	tabling member constituency	Denton and Reddish
	tabling member printed	Andrew Gwynne
	uin	129146
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/03/2018 answer text <p>Information about the number of people prosecuted for failing to inform the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency of a medical condition is not available.</p><p> </p><p>Decisions to prosecute in such cases are a matter for the Crown Prosecution Service in England and Wales and the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service in Scotland.</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 02/03/2018 12:22:44 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
	tabling member	1506 label Biography information for Andrew Gwynne

846973

	registered interest
	date	22/02/2018
	answering body	Department for Transport
	answering dept id	27
	answering dept short name	Transport
	answering dept sort name	Transport
	hansard heading	Driving Licences
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what provisions are in place to allow doctors to provide information to the DVLA on a person’s fitness to drive.
	tabling member constituency	Denton and Reddish
	tabling member printed	Andrew Gwynne
	uin	129147
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/03/2018 answer text <p>Doctors play an important role in the medical notification process by advising their patients of the effect of any treatment or medication that they are receiving and whether they should notify the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA). The DVLA will often correspond with a patient’s doctor, consultant or optician as part of the medical investigation to determine the impact of the patient’s condition on their fitness to drive. The DVLA provides a dedicated telephone line which allows doctors to discuss concerns about a patient’s fitness to drive with one of the DVLA’s doctors.</p><p> </p><p>A doctor may also decide to notify the DVLA directly about a patient’s medical condition. This is provided for in guidance from the General Medical Council, which states that while doctors must make every reasonable effort to persuade their patients to inform the DVLA, they may themselves notify the DVLA of a patient’s medical condition, in confidence, if the patient does not do so.</p><p> </p><p>To assist the medical profession the DVLA has created a dedicated form that may be used for this purpose. The DVLA treats notifications received from doctors and opticians as a high priority.</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 02/03/2018 09:53:04 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
	tabling member	1506 label Biography information for Andrew Gwynne

828170

	registered interest
	date	22/01/2018
	answering body	Department for Transport
	answering dept id	27
	answering dept short name	Transport
	answering dept sort name	Transport
	hansard heading	Carillion
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, when the most recent assessment took place of Carillion's ability to fulfil its contractual obligations in the transport sector.
	tabling member constituency	Denton and Reddish
	tabling member printed	Andrew Gwynne
	uin	124130
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/01/2018 answer text <p>Assessments of a company’s ability to deliver its obligations is performed during each procurement exercise Our Arm’s Length Bodies (ALBs) also have contingency plans which vary depending on the particular contract. ALBs are working to ensure continuity of service and they have not currently reported any operational issues. With respect to the CEK Joint Venture (comprising Carillion, Eiffage and Kier) on HS2, HS2 Ltd undertook due diligence on the CEK Joint Venture prior to the Main Works Civils Contract Award in July 2017. HS2 Ltd has also carried out additional due diligence and sought re-assurance of both Joint Venture partners, Kier and Eiffage, that they remain committed and capable to deliver the contract. Each company's Boards have both given that assurance and confirmed that they underwrite the performance of each other and have the capacity to deliver the HS2 contract.</p> answering member constituency Wealden answering member printed Ms Nusrat Ghani question first answered 30/01/2018 12:42:57 answering member 4460 label Biography information for Ms Nusrat Ghani
	tabling member	1506 label Biography information for Andrew Gwynne

810677

	registered interest
	date	21/12/2017
	answering body	Department for Transport
	answering dept id	27
	answering dept short name	Transport
	answering dept sort name	Transport
	hansard heading	Department for Transport: Travel
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how much his Department has spent on (a) taxis, (b) first class train tickets and (c) business class air travel in each of the last four years.
	tabling member constituency	Denton and Reddish
	tabling member printed	Andrew Gwynne
	uin	121022
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/01/2018 answer text <p>It should be noted that it is not possible to make year-on-year comparisons over these four years due to significant changes in the way that the data requested is recorded, in particular due to a change in travel provider towards the end of 2015/16. The change in travel provider has also made it difficult to obtain a full set of data for 2015/16 and prior years without incurring disproportionate cost.</p><p> </p><p>All central Department staff, who incur most of the travel spend across the DfT family, are expected to travel standard class irrespective of grade except under very limited circumstances. With respect to air travel staff are allowed to book non-standard class flights if they are longer than eight hours in duration and with the expectation that the individual needs to carry out Departmental work as soon as they arrive at the destination. The majority of the central Department non-standard class air travel is incurred by aviation security officials flying to long-haul destinations around the world for sensitive aviation security operations.</p><p> </p><p>Aside from the central Department, the vast majority otherwise of the business class air travel is incurred by the VCA and the MCA. However, for VCA the majority of overseas travel is chargeable to the VCA's clients and so any business class air travel spend by the VCA will result in only a minimal net cost to the taxpayer.</p><p> </p><p>Similarly, MCA’s Marine Surveyors are required to survey UK-registered ships on a regular basis wherever the ship may be at that time and they have to fly globally to those locations. The cost of the airfare is recovered as part of the fee paid by the shipping company for the regulatory work, so therefore any business class air travel by the MCA will result in only a minimal net cost to the taxpayer.</p><p> </p><p>With respect to first class rail travel, all central Department staff must travel standard class irrespective of grade, except under two specific circumstances - temporary or permanent disability and pregnancy related reasons.</p><p> </p><p>Over the four years in question, data is not available from either all parts of the Department or for all time periods. In addition, for the central Department for the years 2013/14 to 2015/16, due to the way that travel was booked at this time, it is not possible to obtain a complete record of spend. Therefore it is not possible to compare the spend data from year to year.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>For 2013/14, available information covering the central Department, DVLA, VCA, DSA, the MCA and Highways Agency is: Taxi spend = £169,052 (though no information is available for the MCA); first class rail travel = £33,873 and business class air travel = £243,170. No information is available for VOSA.</p><p> </p><p>For 2014/15, data is only available covering the first 8 months of the year except the central Department does have taxi spend data for 12 months. Data covering the central Department, DVLA, VCA, DSA, the MCA and the Highways Agency is: Taxi spend = £153,246 (though no information is available for the MCA); first class rail travel = £18,477 and business class air travel = £110,188. No information is available for VOSA.</p><p> </p><p>For 2015/16, data is mainly only available covering the last 4 months of the year due to a change in travel provider, except the DVLA does have 12 months of data for all spend and the central Department, VCA and MCA do have taxi spend data for 12 months. Data covering the central Department, DVLA and VCA is: Taxi spend = £182,099 (this also includes MCA spend); first class rail travel = £5,479 (no data available for the MCA); business class air travel = £167,420 (no data available for the MCA). No information is available for the DVSA and the Highways Agency is no longer an Executive Agency of DfT.</p><p> </p><p>For 2016/17, data is available for the full 12 months of the year for the central Department, DVLA, VCA and MCA: Taxi spend = £191,307; first class rail travel = £10,503; business class air travel = £1,155,965. No data is available for DVSA and the Highways Agency is no longer an Executive Agency of DfT.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Wealden answering member printed Ms Nusrat Ghani question first answered 15/01/2018 11:59:41 answering member 4460 label Biography information for Ms Nusrat Ghani
	tabling member	1506 label Biography information for Andrew Gwynne

802680

	registered interest
	date	07/12/2017
	answering body	Department for Transport
	answering dept id	27
	answering dept short name	Transport
	answering dept sort name	Transport
	hansard heading	Transport: Per Capita Costs
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what the per capita spending from the public purse was on transport projects in (a) Greater Manchester and (b) London in each of the last five years.
	tabling member constituency	Denton and Reddish
	tabling member printed	Andrew Gwynne
	uin	118229
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/12/2017 answer text <p>Figures on public sector expenditure at a regional level are part of the Government’s Country and Regional Analysis (CRA) statistics. These statistics attempt to allocate the spending according to where the benefits of that spend are accrued.</p><p>The statistics include spend on transport by all public sector organisations including the Department for Transport, Local Authorities, Public Corporations (in the case of transport, this is mainly spend by London Underground) and other Government Departments (including the devolved administrations). Comparisons between London and other regions are often not reliable due to difficulty in cost allocation.</p><p>This information is available for Government office regions only, and therefore is unavailable for Greater Manchester.</p><p> </p><p>Statistics for total public capital expenditure on transport per capita for London are given in the table below. The CRA measures the levels of ‘capital’ and ‘current’ expenditure. Capital expenditure has been used as a proxy for spending on transport projects specifically.</p><p> </p><p><strong>Total public sector capital expenditure on transport per capita</strong></p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong> </strong></p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td colspan="2"><p><strong><em>£s nominal</em></strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong> </strong></p></td><td><p>2012-13</p></td><td><p>2013-14</p></td><td><p>2014-15</p></td><td><p>2015-16</p></td><td><p>2016-17</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>London</p></td><td><p>466</p></td><td><p>478</p></td><td><p>533</p></td><td><p>605</p></td><td><p>692</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 14/12/2017 14:56:25 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
	tabling member	1506 label Biography information for Andrew Gwynne

782877

	registered interest
	date	02/11/2017
	answering body	Department for Transport
	answering dept id	27
	answering dept short name	Transport
	answering dept sort name	Transport
	hansard heading	Taxis: Disability
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether the task and finish group on taxi and private hire vehicle licensing will invite disabled people and organisations representing disabled people to give evidence.
	tabling member constituency	Denton and Reddish
	tabling member printed	Andrew Gwynne
	uin	111254
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/11/2017 answer text <p>In recognition of the breadth of perspectives and needs which the task and finish group on taxi and private hire vehicle licensing must consider in its review of sector issues, the terms of reference were designed to ensure that evidence could be taken from external parties. The group has recognised the importance of the sector to disabled people by already taking written evidence from the Disabled Persons Transport Advisory Committee, the Guide Dogs for the Blind Association, and the National Association of Taxi Users.</p> answering member constituency South Holland and The Deepings answering member printed Mr John Hayes question first answered 07/11/2017 15:42:09 answering member 350 label Biography information for Sir John Hayes
	tabling member	1506 label Biography information for Andrew Gwynne

782878

	registered interest
	date	02/11/2017
	answering body	Department for Transport
	answering dept id	27
	answering dept short name	Transport
	answering dept sort name	Transport
	hansard heading	Taxis: Disability
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how his Department took account of the needs of disabled people when it set out the terms of reference and membership of the task and finish group on taxi and private hire vehicle licensing.
	tabling member constituency	Denton and Reddish
	tabling member printed	Andrew Gwynne
	uin	111255
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/11/2017 answer text <p>The terms of reference and membership of the task and finish group on taxi and private hire vehicle licensing were designed to bring together a small but broadly representative group of sector stakeholders, to consider current issues and produce recommendations for action. In recognition of the breadth of perspectives that the group would need to consider, the terms of reference were specifically designed to ensure that the group would have the ability to invite others to provide evidence. To that end, the group has already taken written evidence from a range of organisations including the Disabled Persons Transport Advisory Committee, the Guide Dogs for the Blind Association, and the National Association of Taxi Users.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency South Holland and The Deepings answering member printed Mr John Hayes question first answered 07/11/2017 15:36:47 answering member 350 label Biography information for Sir John Hayes
	tabling member	1506 label Biography information for Andrew Gwynne