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1146922

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date	30/09/2019
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Large Goods Vehicles: Inspections
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Baroness Vere of Norbiton on 9 September (HL17707), whether the number of staff of the Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency conducting roadside mechanical spot checks on lorries was reduced between 2016 and 2019.
tabling member printed	Lord Bradshaw
uin	HL17896
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/10/2019 answer text <p>The Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA) has not reduced the number of staff conducting roadside mechanical spot checks on lorries between 2016 and 2019.</p><p> </p><p>The DVSA targets serious and serially non-compliant operators and drivers to protect British road users from unsafe drivers and vehicles.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Vere of Norbiton question first answered 08/10/2019 11:31:25 answering member 4580 label Biography information for Baroness Vere of Norbiton
tabling member	2483 label Biography information for Lord Bradshaw

1146924

registered interest
date	30/09/2019
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Road Traffic: Noise
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what plans they have, if any, to undertake work to reduce road traffic noise along major roads.
tabling member printed	Lord Bradshaw
uin	HL17898
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/10/2019 answer text <p>Highways England is committed to mitigating noise pollution on the Strategic Road Network. Highways England’s key performance indicator for noise requires mitigation to be installed at 1,150 Noise Important Areas by the end of the first Road Investment Strategy period in March 2020. To support this objective Highways England is:</p><p> </p><ul><li>installing low noise surfacing, where appropriate, as part of the road renewal programme, for example outside houses, schools and hospitals;</li><li>when delivering schemes, seeking to mitigate potential noise impacts in line with national policy, through the use of: low noise surfacing, noise barriers, earth bunds, and through the scheme design process;</li><li>delivering new noise barriers through the Environmental Designated Fund, and renewal of existing noise barriers where required; and</li><li>installing acoustic glazing to residential properties in Noise Important Areas, delivered through the Environmental Designated Fund.</li></ul><p> </p><p>Further to the work of HE, the Department for Transport is promoting the use of Electric Vehicles which will significantly reduce the noise pollution on major roads.</p> answering member printed Baroness Vere of Norbiton question first answered 08/10/2019 11:31:57 answering member 4580 label Biography information for Baroness Vere of Norbiton
tabling member	2483 label Biography information for Lord Bradshaw

1146925

registered interest
date	30/09/2019
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Agility Trains: Standards
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government whether Agility Trains West account for delays incurred by their trains using the miles per casualty measure.
tabling member printed	Lord Bradshaw
uin	HL17899
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/10/2019 answer text <p>Miles per Technical Incident is the common performance statistic calculated for all classes of trains used for passenger services on the national network. These statistics are collated by the Rail Delivery Group from data collated from the train operators. The Hitachi Intercity Express Trains owned by Agility Trains West are included in these statistics.</p> answering member printed Baroness Vere of Norbiton question first answered 08/10/2019 11:18:06 answering member 4580 label Biography information for Baroness Vere of Norbiton
tabling member	2483 label Biography information for Lord Bradshaw

1146927

registered interest
date	30/09/2019
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	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what are the contractual requirements between East Midlands Railway and the Department for Transport for the operational performance of that line; and who is responsible for measuring that performance.
tabling member printed	Lord Bradshaw
uin	HL17901
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/10/2019 answer text <p>The franchise agreement sets out operational performance benchmarks for Cancellations, Delay Minutes and Short Formations. Network Rail monitors and measures the operational performance of the railways and the Train Operator will provide these numbers to the Department for Transport to monitor their performance against the benchmarks.</p><p>The East Midlands Railway franchise agreement, which contains the franchise specific benchmarks, will be published on the gov.uk website in due course.</p> answering member printed Baroness Vere of Norbiton question first answered 08/10/2019 11:15:30 answering member 4580 label Biography information for Baroness Vere of Norbiton
tabling member	2483 label Biography information for Lord Bradshaw

1146938

registered interest
date	30/09/2019
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Parking Offences: Pedestrian Areas
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what plans they have to introduce legislation to make it a criminal offence to park on pavements.
tabling member printed	Lord Hunt of Kings Heath
uin	HL17912
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/10/2019 answer text <p>The police already have powers to enforce dangerous or obstructive parking wherever it occurs. They can also enforce pavement parking restrictions, where such restrictions are introduced by the few local authorities outside London who do not have civil parking enforcement powers. However, the majority of local authorities outside London, and all London councils, have taken civil enforcement powers and would themselves enforce any pavement restrictions that may apply.</p><p> </p><p>In the wider context, the Department for Transport is considering the conclusions of the Transport Select Committee’s recent inquiry into pavement parking, alongside the findings of its own evidence review, and will respond to the Committee in November.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Vere of Norbiton question first answered 08/10/2019 11:15:56 answering member 4580 label Biography information for Baroness Vere of Norbiton
tabling member	2024 label Biography information for Lord Hunt of Kings Heath

1146956

registered interest
date	30/09/2019
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Thomas Cook: Insolvency
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what estimate they have made of the cost to the taxpayer of repatriating customers of Thomas Cook to the UK; and what are the significant factors which are likely to determine whether that estimate is an (1) over, or (2) under, estimate.
tabling member printed	Lord Myners
uin	HL17930
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/10/2019 answer text <p>The Operation to repatriate customers of Thomas Cook is modelled on the successful repatriation of passengers after the collapse of Monarch Airways.</p><p> </p><p>The final cost of the Monarch operation to taxpayers was about £50 million and the repatriation effort with Thomas Cook is estimated to be about twice the size and far more complicated as Monarch was an airline based in Europe, whereas Thomas Cook was a global travel group.</p><p> </p><p>This is the biggest peacetime repatriation in UK history, involving more than 150,000 passengers, so any problems or delays could lead to additional costs.</p><p> </p><p>The Government will, however, seek to minimise the impact on the taxpayer by entering into discussions with third parties with a view to recovering some of the costs of this large operation. We will also look to recoup some of the costs from relevant credit and debit card providers and travel insurers.</p> answering member printed Baroness Vere of Norbiton question first answered 08/10/2019 11:32:39 answering member 4580 label Biography information for Baroness Vere of Norbiton
tabling member	3869 label Biography information for Lord Myners