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1125920

	registered interest
	date	10/05/2019
	answering body	Department for Transport
	answering dept id	27
	answering dept short name	Transport
	answering dept sort name	Transport
	hansard heading	Department for Transport: Staff
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will publish the performance markings for (a) equality groups and (b) grades in his Department for each quarter of the last financial year.
	tabling member constituency	Easington
	tabling member printed	Grahame Morris
	uin	252846
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/05/2019 answer text <p>This data is not currently available. The Department will conduct a formal review of the implementation of the new performance management policy in the autumn. As part of this review analysis of performance descriptors awarded will be completed. At this point we do not expect formal publication of this data, but they will be available in Departmental discussions with unions.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 15/05/2019 12:36:17 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
	tabling member	3973 label Biography information for Grahame Morris

1125921

	registered interest
	date	10/05/2019
	answering body	Department for Transport
	answering dept id	27
	answering dept short name	Transport
	answering dept sort name	Transport
	hansard heading	Department for Transport: Staff
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what the distribution of Local Recognition Awards for each equality group in his Department was in the last financial year.
	tabling member constituency	Easington
	tabling member printed	Grahame Morris
	uin	252847
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/05/2019 answer text <p>The information requested is not held centrally.</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 15/05/2019 12:13:47 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
	tabling member	3973 label Biography information for Grahame Morris

1125922

	registered interest
	date	10/05/2019
	answering body	Department for Transport
	answering dept id	27
	answering dept short name	Transport
	answering dept sort name	Transport
	hansard heading	Department for Transport: Staff
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what the distribution of performance markings were by each (a) equality group and (b) grades in his central department in each quarter of the last financial year.
	tabling member constituency	Easington
	tabling member printed	Grahame Morris
	uin	252848
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/05/2019 answer text <p>The information requested is currently not held centrally.</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 15/05/2019 12:03:29 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
	tabling member	3973 label Biography information for Grahame Morris

1123676

	registered interest
	date	29/04/2019
	answering body	Department for Transport
	answering dept id	27
	answering dept short name	Transport
	answering dept sort name	Transport
	hansard heading	Public Transport: Carbon Emissions
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps he is taking to increase passenger journeys on public transport in the regions to reduce CO2 emissions.
	tabling member constituency	Easington
	tabling member printed	Grahame Morris
	uin	248646
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/05/2019 answer text <p>Since 2010 the Government has invested nearly three quarters of a billion pounds to improve bus services through investment in bus-based infrastructure schemes and in greener buses, which is in addition to the continuing financial support provided through the Bus Service Operators Grant.</p><p>The Government has also introduced the Bus Services Act 2017 that provides local authorities with the tools to improve local services and increase passenger numbers.</p><p>The Government is also investing record levels in the U.K. rail network, as part of the biggest rail modernisation programme for over a century, to accommodate greater passenger traffic while reducing its impact on the environment.</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 02/05/2019 14:11:27 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
	tabling member	3973 label Biography information for Grahame Morris

1110948

	registered interest
	date	10/04/2019
	answering body	Department for Transport
	answering dept id	27
	answering dept short name	Transport
	answering dept sort name	Transport
	hansard heading	Department for Transport: Pay
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many male direct entrants at Grade 7 level in Resources and Strategy in his Department, started on a higher salary level than the Grade 7 minimum in (a) 2015, (b) 2016, (c) 2017, (d) 2018 and (e) 2019.
	tabling member constituency	Easington
	tabling member printed	Grahame Morris
	uin	243387
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/04/2019 answer text <p>There were 28 direct entrants at Grade 7 in Resource and Strategy Group between 2015 and 31<sup>st</sup> January 2019. Of these, 21 were appointed with a salary above the minimum. It is not possible to disaggregate this further between male and female entrants or the years in which they joined the Department, as it might be possible to identify individuals.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 23/04/2019 13:04:19 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
	tabling member	3973 label Biography information for Grahame Morris

1110949

	registered interest
	date	10/04/2019
	answering body	Department for Transport
	answering dept id	27
	answering dept short name	Transport
	answering dept sort name	Transport
	hansard heading	Department for Transport: Pay
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many direct entrants identified as (a) White, (b) BAME or (c) Black at Grade 7 level in his Department started on a higher salary level than the Grade 7 minimum in (i) 2015, (ii) 2016, (iii) 2017, (iv) 2018 and (v) 2019.
	tabling member constituency	Easington
	tabling member printed	Grahame Morris
	uin	243388
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/04/2019 answer text <p>The tables in the attached document provide the number of direct entrants identified as (a) White, (b) BAME (Including Black) and those whose ethnicity remains Undisclosed. Data includes appointments in DfT(c), DVLA, DVSA, MCA and VCA. DVSA data from before September 2017 is only available at disproportionate cost.</p><p> </p><p>Due to the small numbers of staff that have specifically identified themselves as “Black”, it is not possible to provide this information as it would be possible to identify individuals. However, this data is contained within the figures for those that are identified as BAME. Where the value would be 5 or less, this is shown accordingly to protect anonymity.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman grouped question UIN 243389 question first answered 23/04/2019 15:09:38 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman attachment 1 file name No of Direct Entrants - Departmental - Ethnicity.docx title No of Direct Entrants - Departmental - Ethnicity
	tabling member	3973 label Biography information for Grahame Morris

1110950

	registered interest
	date	10/04/2019
	answering body	Department for Transport
	answering dept id	27
	answering dept short name	Transport
	answering dept sort name	Transport
	hansard heading	Department for Transport: Pay
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many direct entrants identified as (a) White, (b) BAME or (c) Black in his Department, started on a higher salary level than the relevant grade minimum in (i) 2015, (ii) 2016, (iii) 2017, (iv) 2018 and (v) 2019.
	tabling member constituency	Easington
	tabling member printed	Grahame Morris
	uin	243389
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/04/2019 answer text <p>The tables in the attached document provide the number of direct entrants identified as (a) White, (b) BAME (Including Black) and those whose ethnicity remains Undisclosed. Data includes appointments in DfT(c), DVLA, DVSA, MCA and VCA. DVSA data from before September 2017 is only available at disproportionate cost.</p><p> </p><p>Due to the small numbers of staff that have specifically identified themselves as “Black”, it is not possible to provide this information as it would be possible to identify individuals. However, this data is contained within the figures for those that are identified as BAME. Where the value would be 5 or less, this is shown accordingly to protect anonymity.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman grouped question UIN 243388 question first answered 23/04/2019 15:09:38 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman attachment 1 file name No of Direct Entrants - Departmental - Ethnicity.docx title No of Direct Entrants - Departmental - Ethnicity
	tabling member	3973 label Biography information for Grahame Morris

1110186

	registered interest
	date	08/04/2019
	answering body	Department for Transport
	answering dept id	27
	answering dept short name	Transport
	answering dept sort name	Transport
	hansard heading	Department for Transport: Trade Unions
	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 19 March to Question 232553 on Department for Transport: Trade Unions, how many induction meetings for new entrants were held in his Department in 2018; in how many of those meetings were trades unions (a) invited to make and (b) excluded from making a presentation; and how many staff attended those meetings.
	tabling member constituency	Easington
	tabling member printed	Grahame Morris
	uin	242109
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/04/2019 answer text <p><strong> </strong></p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Business Area</p></td><td><p>Number of induction meetings**</p></td><td><p>Number of staff that attended the induction meetings</p></td><td><p>Number of induction meetings at which the trade unions were invited to make a presentation at</p></td><td><p>Number of induction meetings at which the trade unions were excluded from making a presentation at</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Department for Transport (central department)</p></td><td><p>12</p></td><td><p>540*</p></td><td><p>N/A</p></td><td><p>N/A</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency</p></td><td><p>15</p></td><td><p>366</p></td><td><p>15</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency</p></td><td><p>27</p></td><td><p>260</p></td><td><p>27</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Maritime and Coastguard Agency</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>N/A</p></td><td><p>N/A</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Vehicle Certification Agency</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>6</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="5"><p><em>*Estimate only based on capacity of courses </em> <em>**’Induction meetings’ refer to formal sessions for groups of new entrants, and not any other meeting that may form part of an individual induction plan</em></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>DfTc and VCA are in discussions with the trade union side about how to incorporate the trade union into the induction process. The induction materials given to new staff include information about joining a trade union.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 11/04/2019 14:49:58 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
	tabling member	3973 label Biography information for Grahame Morris

1110187

	registered interest
	date	08/04/2019
	answering body	Department for Transport
	answering dept id	27
	answering dept short name	Transport
	answering dept sort name	Transport
	hansard heading	Department for Transport: Trade Unions
	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 20 March to Question 233002 on Government Departments: Trade Unions, what assessment he has made of the effect of restrictions placed on trade unions during a dispute on compliance with freedom of association and freedom of expression under the Human Rights Act 1998.
	tabling member constituency	Easington
	tabling member printed	Grahame Morris
	uin	242110
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/04/2019 answer text <p>The Department supports the right of employees to join a trade union, and the right of the union to communicate with its members.</p><p> </p><p>The Department’s policy is not to make facilities available to the trade union for the purpose of planning, promoting, or implementing a decision to take industrial action against the Department, which it does not believe is contrary to the requirements of the Human Rights Act 1998.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 11/04/2019 14:46:54 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
	tabling member	3973 label Biography information for Grahame Morris

1110188

	registered interest
	date	08/04/2019
	answering body	Department for Transport
	answering dept id	27
	answering dept short name	Transport
	answering dept sort name	Transport
	hansard heading	Department for Transport: Overtime
	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 19 March to Question 232554 on Department for Transport: Overtime, on what dates (a) trades unions wrote to the Department, (b) his Department replied and (c) his Department met with trades union in relation to the judgment on Dudley Metropolitan Borough Council v. Mr G Willetts.
	tabling member constituency	Easington
	tabling member printed	Grahame Morris
	uin	242111
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/04/2019 answer text <p>Correspondence, including records of meetings, between the Department and trade unions relating to the judgement on Dudley Metropolitan Borough Council v. Mr G Willetts is not held centrally, or in the format requested, and can only be obtained at disproportionate cost.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 11/04/2019 14:43:28 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
	tabling member	3973 label Biography information for Grahame Morris