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1698330

registered interest
date	25/03/2024
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Driving Tests: Waiting Lists
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what the average waiting time for a driving test was in (a) England and (b) East Midlands as of 25 March 2024.
tabling member constituency	South Holland and The Deepings
tabling member printed	Sir John Hayes
uin	20146
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/04/2024 answer text <p>The average waiting time for a car practical driving test in England, in February 2024, was 17.5 weeks.</p><p> </p><p>The average waiting time for a car practical driving test in the East Midlands, in February 2024, was 17.6 weeks.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman question first answered 15/04/2024 11:10:30 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
tabling member	350 label Biography information for Sir John Hayes

1697798

registered interest
date	21/03/2024
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Delivery Services: Driving
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether he has had recent discussions with the Home Office on tackling the matter of delivery drivers who are in the UK illegally.
tabling member constituency	South Holland and The Deepings
tabling member printed	Sir John Hayes
uin	19775
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/03/2024 answer text <p>DfT ministers and officials engage with the Home Office on this matter. The Department sits on the cross-government ministerial Taskforce on Immigration Enforcement, which ensures that every available power across government is utilised to support law enforcement activity to identify and reduce illegal migrants in the UK, and ensures only those eligible can work, receive benefits or access public services. The Department and its agencies continue to support the Home Office on the wider issue of illegal working in the UK.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman question first answered 28/03/2024 14:05:15 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
tabling member	350 label Biography information for Sir John Hayes

1697448

registered interest
date	20/03/2024
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Roads: Lincolnshire
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how much reallocated HS2 funding has been given to Lincolnshire County Council for road resurfacing.
tabling member constituency	South Holland and The Deepings
tabling member printed	Sir John Hayes
uin	19528
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/03/2024 answer text <p>Lincolnshire County Council will receive a minimum additional overall uplift of £287.7 million between 2023-24 and 2033-34 as a result of reallocating HS2 funding. £4.9 million of this has already been paid out in the current financial year with a further £4.9 million to follow in 2024/25, and Lincolnshire is receiving around 30% more capital funding for highway maintenance in the current financial year than it did in the previous financial year.</p><p> </p><p>Funding allocations beyond 2024/25 are a matter for the next Spending Review.</p> answering member constituency Bexhill and Battle answering member printed Huw Merriman question first answered 25/03/2024 14:09:39 answering member 4442 label Biography information for Huw Merriman
tabling member	350 label Biography information for Sir John Hayes

1697449

registered interest
date	20/03/2024
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	A16: Lincolnshire
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 improve safety on the A16 in Lincolnshire.
tabling member constituency	South Holland and The Deepings
tabling member printed	Sir John Hayes
uin	19529
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/03/2024 answer text <p>The A16 is the responsibility of local highway authorities – in this case, Lincolnshire County Council through South Holland and The Deepings. It is for those authorities to assess the benefits of improvements to areas of their networks, and to seek funding, if required.</p><p> </p><p>Almost £20 million from the Levelling Up Fund has been allocated to improve the A16 corridor between Boston and Spalding, and Lincolnshire County Council has recently been allocated just over £262 million from the Local Transport Fund to improve the connections that people rely on every day.</p> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman question first answered 26/03/2024 10:42:25 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
tabling member	350 label Biography information for Sir John Hayes

1695336

registered interest
date	12/03/2024
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	East Midlands Railway: Standards
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many and what proportion of East Midlands Railways trains from (a) Peterborough to Spalding and (b) Spalding to Peterborough were (i) cancelled and (ii) delayed by more than 30 minutes in 2023.
tabling member constituency	South Holland and The Deepings
tabling member printed	Sir John Hayes
uin	18046
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/03/2024 answer text <p>Following a thorough search of our paper and electronic records, I have established that the specific information you requested is not held by this Department.</p><p>The Office of Rail and Road publish statistics on passenger rail punctuality and reliability broken down by Train Operating Company. However, these statistics are not available for specific train services.</p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency Bexhill and Battle answering member printed Huw Merriman question first answered 20/03/2024 17:28:50 answering member 4442 label Biography information for Huw Merriman
tabling member	350 label Biography information for Sir John Hayes

1693064

registered interest
date	01/03/2024
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Bus Services: Lincolnshire
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 (a) maintain and (b) improve rural bus services in (i) South Holland and the Deepings constituency and (ii) Lincolnshire.
tabling member constituency	South Holland and The Deepings
tabling member printed	Sir John Hayes
uin	16452
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/03/2024 answer text <p>In England, the majority of bus services outside London operate on a commercial basis. Where commercial service provision is insufficient to meet the needs of local communities, local authorities can subsidise bus services where this represents value for money. This ensures that service provision is aligned with local needs.</p><p> </p><p>The Government recognises the importance of local bus services to ensuring communities can stay connected, including in rural areas, and has announced over £4.5 billion to support and improve bus services since 2020.</p><p> </p><p>The over £4.5 billion includes:</p><p>o £2bn pandemic funding between March 2020 and June 2023, followed by £300m in further service support until April 2025 (of which £160m is BSIP+ (not included in the £2bn BSIP funding below) and £140m is BSOG+ funding);</p><p>o £2bn Bus Service Improvement Plan (BSIP) funding, including £1bn for LTAs in the North and the Midlands recently reallocated from HS2 (of which we have already announced allocations for the first £150m in 2024/25 and allocations for 25/26 onwards will be published in due course);</p><p>o Nearly £600m of funding for the £2 fare cap until the end of 2024.</p><p> </p><p>From the Bus Service Improvement Plan funding, Lincolnshire County Council has been allocated over £8.5 million so far. The Department’s guidance to local authorities on developing their BSIPs explains that these must cover their full area and all local bus services within it. This funding should, therefore, benefit services in South Holland and the Deepings.</p><p> </p><p>The Government also makes over £200 million available to bus operators every year through the Bus Service Operators Grant (BSOG) to help them maintain their network. A further £42 million in BSOG funding is provided directly to local authorities to help subsidise socially necessary bus services that might otherwise be commercially unviable, helping to support rural bus routes. Lincolnshire County Council receives £535,302 of this funding every year.</p><p> </p><p>The Government is also providing £20 million through the Rural Mobility Fund in England to trial 16 innovative demand responsive minibus services to better understand the challenges associated with introducing bookable bus services in rural and suburban settings.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman question first answered 07/03/2024 11:20:18 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
tabling member	350 label Biography information for Sir John Hayes

1692000

registered interest
date	27/02/2024
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Railways: Peterborough
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many and what proportion of London North Eastern trains from (a) Peterborough to London and (b) London to Peterborough were (i) cancelled and (ii) delayed by more than 30 minutes in 2023.
tabling member constituency	South Holland and The Deepings
tabling member printed	Sir John Hayes
uin	15837
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/03/2024 answer text <p>London North Eastern Railway (LNER) cancelled a total of 1,151 services on the day of travel between Peterborough and London between 1 January 2023 and 31 December 2023. This equates to 3.7 per cent of their services between these stations. Over the same time period, 926 LNER services between London and Peterborough were delayed by over 30 minutes. This equates to 3 per cent of LNER services between London and Peterborough. A significant proportion of the cancellations and delays were due to flooding from named storms and infrastructure failures.</p> answering member constituency Bexhill and Battle answering member printed Huw Merriman question first answered 04/03/2024 12:11:31 answering member 4442 label Biography information for Huw Merriman
tabling member	350 label Biography information for Sir John Hayes

1692001

registered interest
date	27/02/2024
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Transport: Lincolnshire
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what grants were provided by his Department to (a) South Holland District Council and (b) South Kesteven District Council in (i) 2022-23 and (ii) 2023-24; and how much was awarded in each grant.
tabling member constituency	South Holland and The Deepings
tabling member printed	Sir John Hayes
uin	15838
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/03/2024 answer text <p>Across financial years (FY) 2022-23 and FY 2023-24, South Holland District Council were awarded £67,500 On-Street Residential Chargepoint Scheme (ORCS) grant funding for the installation of 9 public electric vehicle charging devices. £50,625 (75%) of this grant was paid to the council in FY 2022-23 and the remaining £16,875 (25%) was paid in FY 2023-24.</p><p> </p><p>In addition to this, Breckland and South Holland District Councils, under a previous joint working agreement, were awarded £39,500 for the installation of 6 public charging devices. This grant was paid in full to South Holland District Council in FY 2022-23.</p><p> </p><p>South Kesteven District Council were not awarded any grant funding from the Department for Transport in FY 2022-23 or FY 2023-24.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman question first answered 06/03/2024 09:52:36 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
tabling member	350 label Biography information for Sir John Hayes

1690043

registered interest
date	19/02/2024
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Department for Transport: Translation Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how much his Department spent on translation services from English to (a) Urdu, (b) Polish, (c) Panjabi and (d) Arabic in the last five years.
tabling member constituency	South Holland and The Deepings
tabling member printed	Sir John Hayes
uin	14463
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/02/2024 answer text <p>The Department for Transport does not centrally hold the cost and spend for translation services. We do use translation services on occasion and where necessary, however we do not record these broken down by language.</p> answering member constituency South Cambridgeshire answering member printed Anthony Browne question first answered 27/02/2024 16:07:56 answering member 4801 label Biography information for Anthony Browne
tabling member	350 label Biography information for Sir John Hayes

1687904

registered interest
date	06/02/2024
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Roads: Hedgehogs
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether he is taking steps to help reduce hedgehog casualties on roads.
tabling member constituency	South Holland and The Deepings
tabling member printed	Sir John Hayes
uin	13256
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/02/2024 answer text <p>The Department recently delivered an authorisation to all local authorities to make it easier for them to install small animal warning signs. The purpose of this sign is primarily to improve road safety, but it may also help to reduce hedgehog and other small animal casualties on the road.</p> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman question first answered 09/02/2024 09:52:34 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
tabling member	350 label Biography information for Sir John Hayes