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418511

	registered interest
	date	11/09/2015
	answering body	Department for Transport
	answering dept id	27
	answering dept short name	Transport
	answering dept sort name	Transport
	hansard heading	East West Rail Line
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what recent discussions his Department has had with the East West Rail Consortium and Network Rail on the possible inclusion of the East West Rail Central Section in the industry's initial plans for Control Period 6.
	tabling member constituency	Nottingham South
	tabling member printed	Lilian Greenwood
	uin	10024
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/09/2015 answer text <p>The Department and the East West Rail Consortium are working with Network Rail to develop the business case for the central section. The two most promising route corridors are now being examined. The aim is to identify and appraise a single route option in time for the outcome to be included in the industry’s initial plan for Control Period 6.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 21/09/2015 10:57:44 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
	tabling member	4029 label Biography information for Lilian Greenwood

348411

	registered interest
	date	03/06/2015
	answering body	Department for Transport
	answering dept id	27
	answering dept short name	Transport
	answering dept sort name	Transport
	hansard heading	Level Crossings
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will place in the Library a copy of the Level Crossing Reform Action Plan.
	tabling member constituency	Nottingham South
	tabling member printed	Lilian Greenwood
	uin	1008
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/06/2015 answer text <p>I can confirm that I have placed copies of the Department’s Level Crossing Reform Action Plan in the Libraries of both Houses.</p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 08/06/2015 11:44:04 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
	tabling member	4029 label Biography information for Lilian Greenwood

418512

	registered interest
	date	11/09/2015
	answering body	Department for Transport
	answering dept id	27
	answering dept short name	Transport
	answering dept sort name	Transport
	hansard heading	Rail Value for Money Review
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what progress his Department and Network Rail have made on meeting the rail industry efficiency targets of the McNulty Report.
	tabling member constituency	Nottingham South
	tabling member printed	Lilian Greenwood
	uin	10081
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/09/2015 answer text <p>Between 2004-14 Network Rail achieved a cumulative improvement in efficiency of around 35-40% on operating, maintaining and renewing its network, as shown in Office of Rail and Road’s (ORR) Efficiency and Financial Assessments published for Control Periods 3 and 4.　 The ORR set Network Rail a challenging target of making efficiencies on top of those already achieved of 19.4% for the period 2014-19 (Control Period 5). The evidence base for this target included the McNulty Report as well as a significant amount of top-down benchmarking, bottom-up analysis and studies.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>On train services, this Government is focused on maximising value for money for taxpayers and rail users. Since the relaunch of the franchising programme in 2013, each franchise has been subject to a detailed process of scrutiny, ensuring both that the benefits for taxpayers are realised and that the process maximises efficiencies. The success of the process in securing efficiencies of the type envisaged by McNulty is demonstrated by every successful bid achieving a better price than was originally envisaged by the Department, with consequential considerable benefits for the taxpayer.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 16/09/2015 14:56:29 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
	tabling member	4029 label Biography information for Lilian Greenwood

418513

	registered interest
	date	11/09/2015
	answering body	Department for Transport
	answering dept id	27
	answering dept short name	Transport
	answering dept sort name	Transport
	hansard heading	Network Rail
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether officials in his Department have attended any meetings of Network Rail's (a) Major Projects Delivery sub-committee, (b) Critical Infrastructure sub-committee and (c) Business Plan sub-committee since 22 January 2015.
	tabling member constituency	Nottingham South
	tabling member printed	Lilian Greenwood
	uin	10082
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/09/2015 answer text <p>No Department for Transport officials have attended any meetings of Network Rail's Major Projects Delivery sub-committee, Critical Infrastructure sub-committee or Business Plan sub-committee since 22 January 2015. However, officials from the Shareholder Executive attended eleven meetings of the Major Projects Delivery Committee in that time to observe, in order improve mutual understanding between Network Rail and the Government.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 16/09/2015 15:08:34 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
	tabling member	4029 label Biography information for Lilian Greenwood

418514

	registered interest
	date	11/09/2015
	answering body	Department for Transport
	answering dept id	27
	answering dept short name	Transport
	answering dept sort name	Transport
	hansard heading	Railways: Fares
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what financial support his Department is making available to Transport for London for the purposes of meeting the cost of keeping the increase in the price of London rail fares at the Retail Prices Index in 2016.
	tabling member constituency	Nottingham South
	tabling member printed	Lilian Greenwood
	uin	10083
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/09/2015 answer text <p>This will be considered as part of the wider spending review process that is currently underway.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 16/09/2015 11:21:51 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
	tabling member	4029 label Biography information for Lilian Greenwood

418515

	registered interest
	date	11/09/2015
	answering body	Department for Transport
	answering dept id	27
	answering dept short name	Transport
	answering dept sort name	Transport
	hansard heading	Network Rail
	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 10 September 2015 to Question 9153, whether he received advice from officials in his Department on the potential deferral of Network Rail projects prior to 15 June 2015.
	tabling member constituency	Nottingham South
	tabling member printed	Lilian Greenwood
	uin	10084
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/09/2015 answer text <p>As the Secretary of State told the Transport Select Committee in July 2015, he received advice in September 2014 that there was a cost overrun of some £2 billion for Network Rail enhancement projects. This advice identified measures to bring costs back down. It did not advise pausing Midland Main Line electrification or Transpennine electrification.</p><p> </p><p>15<sup>th</sup> June 2015 was the first day on which that the Secretary of State received advice that these two projects should be paused.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 16/09/2015 15:34:29 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
	tabling member	4029 label Biography information for Lilian Greenwood

418516

	registered interest
	date	11/09/2015
	answering body	Department for Transport
	answering dept id	27
	answering dept short name	Transport
	answering dept sort name	Transport
	hansard heading	Rolling Stock: Standards
	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 10 September 2015 to Question 9152, and with reference to page 214 of his Department's Great Western Franchise Agreement of 22 March 2015, what advice he received from the Rail Safety and Standards Board and the Office of Rail and Road prior to his decision to include in that Agreement a requirement for the Great Western franchisee to develop proposals for main line trial deployment of converted Class 230 trains taking into account the applicability and safety implications of the deviations granted to D78 London Underground rolling stock in 2002 for (a) non-fitment of train protection and warning system in-cab equipment and (b) non-compliance with railway group standards structural requirements for windscreens and windows.
	tabling member constituency	Nottingham South
	tabling member printed	Lilian Greenwood
	uin	10085
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/09/2015 answer text <p>The Secretary of State has not decided to require the Great Western franchisee to develop proposals for main line train deployment of converted Class 230 trains.　 The obligation in the new First Great Western franchise agreement is for the Franchisee to submit an initial feasibility study.　 The franchise agreement makes clear that any proposals for a trial that might derive from that report would be subject to a separate decision by the Secretary of State and would be subject to initial examination confirming likely viability.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 16/09/2015 15:20:57 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
	tabling member	4029 label Biography information for Lilian Greenwood

348680

	registered interest
	date	04/06/2015
	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
	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 (a) delivering the Leeds to Sheffield section of High Speed 2's eastern leg earlier than currently planned would require a separate hybrid bill to be presented to the House and (b) such plans would involve the construction of connections to the East Coast Main Line and the Midland Main Line.
	tabling member constituency	Nottingham South
	tabling member printed	Lilian Greenwood
	uin	1208
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/06/2015 answer text <p>The Government is considering the responses to the consultation on the route from the West Midlands to Manchester, Leeds and beyond including how to bring the benefits to the North as quickly as possible. It will set out how it plans to take forward HS2 Phase Two later this year.</p> answering member constituency Scarborough and Whitby answering member printed Mr Robert Goodwill question first answered 09/06/2015 09:36:32 answering member 1562 label Biography information for Sir Robert Goodwill
	tabling member	4029 label Biography information for Lilian Greenwood

348659

	registered interest
	date	04/06/2015
	answering body	Department for Transport
	answering dept id	27
	answering dept short name	Transport
	answering dept sort name	Transport
	hansard heading	Department for Transport: Cost Effectiveness
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to the statement by HM Treasury of 4 June 2015, if he will publish a map of the land to be sold in the vicinity of King's Cross station; how he intends to achieve the other £200 million of savings expected from his Department in 2015-16; and from which cost headings such savings will be made.
	tabling member constituency	Nottingham South
	tabling member printed	Lilian Greenwood
	uin	1260
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/06/2015 answer text <p>A map of the land to be sold in the vicinity of Kings Cross station is attached. The £200 million of other savings to be made in 2015-16 are as follows:</p><p> </p><p>£124 million from reduced contingency;</p><p>£31 million reduction in grant to Transport for London;</p><p>£23 million from Cycling Cities Ambition budget;</p><p>£16 million from Regional Air Connectivity fund;</p><p>£5 million from the Stations Commercial Projects Facility;</p><p>£1 million from Sheffield Tram-Train project.</p><p> </p><p>The return of expected 2015-16 underspends on these projects does not mean that they have been cancelled.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 09/06/2015 15:36:51 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry attachment 1 file name 001260 - Kings Cross map.pdf title 1260 - Map of Kings Cross
	tabling member	4029 label Biography information for Lilian Greenwood

348660

	registered interest
	date	04/06/2015
	answering body	Department for Transport
	answering dept id	27
	answering dept short name	Transport
	answering dept sort name	Transport
	hansard heading	Rolling Stock: Procurement
	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 2 June 2015 to Question 395, what the maximum permitted line speed of the bi-modal IEP train in regular service will be when that train is running on (a) diesel and (b) electric power.
	tabling member constituency	Nottingham South
	tabling member printed	Lilian Greenwood
	uin	1261
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/06/2015 answer text <p>The current maximum permitted line speed of a bi-modal IEP train in regular service when running on (a) diesel and (b) electric power is 125 miles per hour.</p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 09/06/2015 09:48:22 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
	tabling member	4029 label Biography information for Lilian Greenwood