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date	22/03/2023
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	A14: Tree Planting
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what was the cost to public funds of the failure of 630,000 tree saplings planted along the A14 by National Highways; and whether any lessons have been learned for future tree planting schemes.
tabling member printed	Lord Naseby
uin	HL6757
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/03/2023 answer text <p>A total of c.860,000 trees have been planted across the mainline scheme and National Highways have spent c.£2m to date. There is a further c.£2m within the original budget to undertake the necessary work and bring the planting on the scheme into a better condition.</p><p> </p><p>National Highways conducted a review in the Autumn 2022 to analyse reasons for tree failures and inform a replanting strategy. This included analysing soil samples taken along the route to better understand the reasons for failure.</p><p> </p><p>Based on the lessons learned, National Highways has produced a replanting strategy which includes:</p><p> </p><ol><li>Replanting with cell grown trees which have a higher success rate than bare root trees.</li><li>Replanting between October 2023 and March 2024 which is the optimum planting season and avoids potentially very dry summer periods.</li><li>Planting the optimum species for the local soil conditions as soil conditions vary across the scale of the scheme.</li></ol> answering member printed Baroness Vere of Norbiton question first answered 31/03/2023 13:14:50 answering member 4580 label Biography information for Baroness Vere of Norbiton
tabling member	1251 label Biography information for Lord Naseby

1606566

registered interest
date	22/03/2023
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Transport: Databases
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government whether they plan to publish their transport data strategy; and, given the Department for Transport has been working on it since 2020–21, why it has not yet been published.
tabling member printed	Baroness Randerson
uin	HL6759
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/03/2023 answer text <p>The Department published the Transport Data Strategy (TDS) on 28 March. Work on the Transport Data Strategy was paused during the Covid Pandemic, as officials working on it were needed for the response work.</p> answering member printed Baroness Vere of Norbiton question first answered 31/03/2023 13:15:28 answering member 4580 label Biography information for Baroness Vere of Norbiton
tabling member	4230 label Biography information for Baroness Randerson

1606108

registered interest
date	21/03/2023
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Railways: Tickets
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government whether the Consolidated Online Retail Solution is the only new rail retailing platform that (1) they, or (2) representatives of the Great British Railways Transition Team, are proposing; and if there are any alternative proposals, what those entail.
tabling member printed	Lord Berkeley
uin	HL6669
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/03/2023 answer text <p>As set out in the Plan for Rail, we recognise that the current multitude of train company websites with different standards of service is confusing to passengers. We are continuing to review the best way to address this and are working closely with the rail sector to do this.</p><p> </p><p>We will also open up railway data and systems, whilst lowering barriers to entry for the industry. For ticketing, that means a more competitive retail market and we welcome new players to spur more innovation and give passengers the services they need.</p><p> </p><p>Further updates on rail retailing proposals will be provided in due course.</p> answering member printed Baroness Vere of Norbiton grouped question UIN HL6668 HL6670 question first answered 31/03/2023 13:13:50 answering member 4580 label Biography information for Baroness Vere of Norbiton
tabling member	3526 label Biography information for Lord Berkeley

1606109

registered interest
date	21/03/2023
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Railways: Tickets
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government whether any new rail retailing platform that (1) they, or (2) representatives from the Great British Railways Transition Team, are proposing will be subject to full and open public tender.
tabling member printed	Lord Berkeley
uin	HL6670
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/03/2023 answer text <p>As set out in the Plan for Rail, we recognise that the current multitude of train company websites with different standards of service is confusing to passengers. We are continuing to review the best way to address this and are working closely with the rail sector to do this.</p><p> </p><p>We will also open up railway data and systems, whilst lowering barriers to entry for the industry. For ticketing, that means a more competitive retail market and we welcome new players to spur more innovation and give passengers the services they need.</p><p> </p><p>Further updates on rail retailing proposals will be provided in due course.</p> answering member printed Baroness Vere of Norbiton grouped question UIN HL6668 HL6669 question first answered 31/03/2023 13:13:50 answering member 4580 label Biography information for Baroness Vere of Norbiton
tabling member	3526 label Biography information for Lord Berkeley