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801005

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date	05/12/2017
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Mersey Gateway Bridge: Tolls
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will (a) make an assessment of the equity of the tolling scheme and (b) investigate the operational problems with the administration of tolls on the Mersey Gateway Bridge; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Garston and Halewood
tabling member printed	Maria Eagle
uin	117564
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/12/2017 answer text <p>The Government has no plans to make an assessment of the equity of the Mersey Gateway tolling scheme. The operation of the tolling system is the responsibility of the Merseylink consortium and Halton Borough Council, promoter of the Mersey Gateway project.</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 11/12/2017 14:00:34 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	483 label Biography information for Maria Eagle

801007

registered interest
date	05/12/2017
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Mersey Gateway Bridge: Tolls
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will take steps to remove the disparity in tolls on the Mersey Gateway Bridge between people who live within the local authority boundaries of Liverpool City Council and Knowsley Borough Council and those who have a Halton postcode.
tabling member constituency	Garston and Halewood
tabling member printed	Maria Eagle
uin	117566
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/12/2017 answer text <p>As the recent Westminster Hall debate made clear, tolling on the Mersey Gateway Bridge is the responsibility of Halton Borough Council.</p><p> </p><p>The Council has been clear from the time of early preparatory work for the bridge that it could only be constructed with the support of toll revenue, and that this would require also tolling the Silver Jubilee Bridge once renovated.</p><p> </p><p>The Government has made a commitment by £288m to help fund this important piece of new infrastructure over the coming years, on top of the £86m already provided to Halton to develop the scheme and pay for land and contamination. The scheme is to that for the Dartford Crossing, which also has free use (after paying a small fee every year) for those in the immediate vicinity, but not for those outside it. The other major crossing across the Mersey, the Mersey Tunnels, is tolled for everyone, including those who live in the immediate vicinity.</p><p> </p><p>The further extension of free tolling would incur substantial costs, much of which would fall on local councils, and would incur a very high risk of successful legal challenge.</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 11/12/2017 14:25:31 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	483 label Biography information for Maria Eagle

801037

registered interest
date	05/12/2017
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Cycle to Work Scheme: Electric Vehicles
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment his Department has made of the potential effect of the Cycle to Work scheme on supporting the uptake of electric bikes.
tabling member constituency	Monmouth
tabling member printed	David T. C. Davies
uin	117596
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/12/2017 answer text <p>The Government’s guidance on the Cycle to Work scheme, which is available online via GOV.UK, makes clear that electrically assisted pedal cycles can be purchased under the scheme. Sales of electrically assisted pedal cycles have risen significantly in recent years and their prices have dropped, potentially making them more likely to be purchased under the scheme. The Department does not hold data on the types of bicycle purchased under the scheme, however, and has made no formal assessment of this.</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 11/12/2017 14:06:07 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	1545 label Biography information for David T C Davies

801080

registered interest
date	05/12/2017
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Mersey Gateway Bridge: Tolls
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what meetings (a) Ministers or (b) officials of his Department have had with (i) HM Treasury and (ii) the Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs on the liability of tractors to pay tolls on the Mersey Gateway Bridge; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Garston and Halewood
tabling member printed	Maria Eagle
uin	117639
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/12/2017 answer text <p>No such meetings have been held.</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 11/12/2017 13:56:14 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	483 label Biography information for Maria Eagle