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date	02/09/2020
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	High Speed Two: Disclosure of Information
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the response on 13 July to the Freedom of Information request to HS2 Ltd (FOI-19-3289), whether they (1) informed the committees in both Houses of Parliament which considered the petitions in relation to the High Speed Rail (London - West Midlands) Act 2017 to the High Speed Rail (West Midlands - Crewe) Bill, and (2) have informed, or intend to inform, the committee in the House of Lords which is considering the petitions in relation to the High Speed Rail (West Midlands - Crewe) Bill, that any petitioner who had signed a non-disclosure agreement with HS2 Ltd had signed such an agreement; if so, which petitioners; and if not, why not.
tabling member printed	Lord Berkeley
uin	HL7602
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/09/2020 answer text <p>The Promoter’s evidence to the Select Committee only includes information relevant to the matters raised by each petitioner. The Promoter was not asked about NDAs, and so did not mention them to the Select Committees that considered petitions against the High Speed Rail (London - West Midlands) Bill in either House whether any of the petitioners against the Bill had entered into a NDA (or confidentiality agreement) with HS2 Ltd. Nor has the Promoter done so for petitioners against the High Speed Rail (West Midlands - Crewe) Bill. The Select Committees are not inquiries into HS2 or HS2 Ltd – they are a quasi-judicial process that considers requests for changes to the scheme, made by petitioners.</p><p> </p><p>Confidentiality agreements preserve confidentiality when two or more parties exchange sensitive information. These agreements offer protection when parties want to share confidential or commercially sensitive information with each other but need to make sure that the information is not shared more widely. Like any contract, these agreements are entered into by mutual consent, and are utilised to protect not just HS2 Ltd’s confidential information but the confidential information of the third party/ies involved. They provide value to the taxpayer by reducing uncertainty and by helping to reduce generalised blight.</p><p>A confidentiality agreement would not prevent a signatory from petitioning against the Bill or appearing before a Select Committee in either House to raise the issues in its petition. It simply seeks to ensure that any confidential information shared between the parties under the terms of the agreement is not disclosed.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Vere of Norbiton question first answered 16/09/2020 15:35:26 answering member 4580 label Biography information for Baroness Vere of Norbiton
tabling member	3526 label Biography information for Lord Berkeley

1230894

registered interest
date	02/09/2020
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Roads: Accidents
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government, how many (1) road accidents, (2) injuries, and (3) fatalities, of (a) pedestrians, (b) cyclists, and (c) vehicle occupants, were attributed to vehicle drivers using their mobile telephones in the last year for which figures are available.
tabling member printed	Lord Berkeley
uin	HL7603
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/09/2020 answer text <p>There were 423 reported accidents in 2018 where a police officer allocated the contributory factor ‘driver using mobile phone’ to at least one of the drivers/riders involved in the accident.</p><p> </p><p>The numbers of fatalities and injuries of road users involved in these accidents are shown in the attached table.</p><p> </p><p>Detailed final statistics on reported personal injury road accidents in Great Britain for 2019 will be published on 30 September 2020. The latest annual published statistics are for 2018.</p> answering member printed Baroness Vere of Norbiton question first answered 15/09/2020 11:57:17 answering member 4580 label Biography information for Baroness Vere of Norbiton attachment 1 file name Table of no. of fatalities & injuries - road users - mobiles.docx title Table of no. of fatalities & injuries - road users
tabling member	3526 label Biography information for Lord Berkeley

1230895

registered interest
date	02/09/2020
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Transport: Isles of Scilly
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government, following the suspension of most transport services to, from, and within, the Isles of Scilly during the COVID-19 pandemic and the subsequent partial reintroduction of services, what action they are taking to ensure the survival of such services and the Islands’ economy into the autumn and beyond the winter period; and whether any such action will be (1) financially commensurate with their plans to keep the railways and bus services operational, and (2) in accordance with their policies of enabling the restoration of the Islands’ economy.
tabling member printed	Lord Berkeley
uin	HL7604
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/09/2020 answer text <p><strong></strong></p><p>In April 2020, the Government announced emergency funding of up to £10.5 million for lifeline ferry and freight service operators to the Isle of Wight and the Isles of Scilly. This bespoke package of support was in addition to the £330bn package of financial support the Government provided to all sectors to support them through the pandemic.</p><p> </p><p>This support has allowed the transport providers which serve the Isles of Scilly to stay operational throughout the Covid-19 outbreak and continue to provide vital services. More recently, it has also helped to facilitate the return of tourists to the islands which has helped to kickstart the local economy.</p><p> </p><p>Nevertheless, the Government recognises the significant impact Covid-19 will continue to have on the economy of the Isles of Scilly. That is why support for the Isles operators continues to be in place, subject to need. And we are working closely with the operators, local stakeholders and other Departments to provide clarity over support for autumn, winter and beyond.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Vere of Norbiton question first answered 15/09/2020 12:55:09 answering member 4580 label Biography information for Baroness Vere of Norbiton
tabling member	3526 label Biography information for Lord Berkeley

1230896

registered interest
date	02/09/2020
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Aviation: Public Opinion
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government when the Department for Transport plans to update the data on (1) public experiences of, and attitudes towards, air travel, (2) public attitudes to climate change and the impact of transport, and (3) aviation statistics information; and when each of these were last updated.
tabling member printed	Lord Berkeley
uin	HL7605
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/09/2020 answer text <p>The Department for Transport has previously published a statistical publication entitled “Public experiences of, and attitudes towards air travel”, last released in 2014. This presented analyses of a short set of questions relating to air travel that were placed into the Office for National Statistics’ Opinions and Lifestyle Survey. These questions have since been suspended. Information about UK consumers’ behaviour and attitudes towards commercial aviation can now be found in the Civil Aviation Authority’s (CAA) Aviation Consumer Survey and the corresponding reports are published on the CAA website.</p><p> </p><p>The Department for Transport published the National Travel Attitudes Study: Wave 3 in August 2020 which included information around attitudes to climate change. The National Travel Attitudes Study is a bi-annual survey used to collect information on public attitudes towards travel and transport.</p><p> </p><p>The Department for Transport’s compilation of aviation statistics is released annually in the AVI tables series alongside the release of the Department’s annual statistical compendium entitled “Transport Statistics Great Britain”. These aviation statistics were last released in December 2019, and are currently scheduled to be updated in December 2020. Information relating to statistics for UK airports is also available directly from the CAA website.</p> answering member printed Baroness Vere of Norbiton question first answered 16/09/2020 14:17:18 answering member 4580 label Biography information for Baroness Vere of Norbiton
tabling member	3526 label Biography information for Lord Berkeley

1230897

registered interest
date	02/09/2020
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: Police
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government how much HS2 Limited has paid to police forces along the HS2 route; and for what services any such payments were made.
tabling member printed	Lord Berkeley
uin	HL7606
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/09/2020 answer text <p>HS2 Ltd only has an Enhanced Police Service Agreement (EPSA) with the British Transport Police for a National Police Liaison Officer, an Analyst and an Intelligence Researcher. This function supports strategic and tactical coordination across all forces that the route will pass through. The costs for the EPSA so far are as follows:</p><p>· 2016/17: £31,261.26</p><p>· 2017/18: £100,185.95</p><p>· 2018/19: £104,803.18</p><p>· 2019/20: £125,782</p> answering member printed Baroness Vere of Norbiton question first answered 16/09/2020 15:38:35 answering member 4580 label Biography information for Baroness Vere of Norbiton
tabling member	3526 label Biography information for Lord Berkeley

1230898

registered interest
date	02/09/2020
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	High Speed Two: Disclosure of Information
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government how many non-disclosure agreements (NDAs) HS2 Limited has signed, or has incorporated into contracts with, (1) consultancy firms, (2) senior staff of HS2 Limited leaving the organisation, (3) landowners negotiating compulsory purchase orders, and (4) police forces; how many contracts between HS2 Limited and those groups did not include NDAs or similar clauses; and further to the remarks by Nusrat Ghani MP on 15 July 2019 (HC Deb, col 651), how many NDAs signed by HS2 Limited were deemed "competitive and sensitive".
tabling member printed	Lord Berkeley
uin	HL7607
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/09/2020 answer text <p>HS2 Ltd uses NDAs to enable the exchange of confidential information with individuals and organisations, who do so on a willing and consensual basis. As Nusrat Ghani MP made clear on 15 July 2019, HS2 Ltd takes its responsibilities on the use of NDAs seriously. While HS2 Ltd holds information on the parties it has signed NDAs with, it is not held in a format that can be disaggregated by category and as such it is unable to provide information on: the number of NDAs with consultancy firms; landowners negotiating compulsory purchase orders; and the number that were deemed &quot;confidential and sensitive&quot;.</p><p> </p><p>I can confirm that no NDAs have been signed by HS2 Ltd with police forces or with senior staff who have left the organisation; though a small number of Settlement Agreements have been signed with former staff which contain a confidentiality clause.</p> answering member printed Baroness Vere of Norbiton question first answered 16/09/2020 15:47:53 answering member 4580 label Biography information for Baroness Vere of Norbiton
tabling member	3526 label Biography information for Lord Berkeley