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1146465

registered interest
date	26/09/2019
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Taxis: Licensing
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what his timescale is for tackling the issue of taxi drivers licensing in a local authority with less stringent standards to the local authority for their main area of trade.
tabling member constituency	Cardiff Central
tabling member printed	Jo Stevens
uin	291401
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/10/2019 answer text <p>Taxis and private hire vehicles (PHVs) are permitted to undertake pre-booked work outside of the area in which they are licensed. PHVs are subject to a triple licensing lock; the operator fulfilling the request, the driver and vehicle must all be licensed by the same authority. As set out in the Government’s response to the report by the Chair of the Task and Finish Group on Taxi and Private Hire Vehicle Licensing, which focused on the sector in England (as taxi and PHV policy is a devolved matter), the Government will consider how restrictions on out-of-area journeys might work in practice, with a view to legislation.</p><p> </p><p>The Government response to the report stated that we will bring forward legislation, when time allows, to enable the setting of national minimum standards in taxi and PHV licensing. We encourage licensing authorities to make full use of their extensive existing powers to protect passengers.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Mid Norfolk answering member printed George Freeman grouped question UIN 291402 291403 question first answered 01/10/2019 12:49:08 answering member 4020 label Biography information for George Freeman
tabling member	4425 label Biography information for Jo Stevens

1146466

registered interest
date	26/09/2019
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Taxis: Licensing
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, when his Department plans to introduce minimum standards for taxis and private hire vehicles in England and Wales in accordance with the Government’s response to Report of the Task and Finish Group on Taxi and Private Hire Vehicle Licensing.
tabling member constituency	Cardiff Central
tabling member printed	Jo Stevens
uin	291402
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/10/2019 answer text <p>Taxis and private hire vehicles (PHVs) are permitted to undertake pre-booked work outside of the area in which they are licensed. PHVs are subject to a triple licensing lock; the operator fulfilling the request, the driver and vehicle must all be licensed by the same authority. As set out in the Government’s response to the report by the Chair of the Task and Finish Group on Taxi and Private Hire Vehicle Licensing, which focused on the sector in England (as taxi and PHV policy is a devolved matter), the Government will consider how restrictions on out-of-area journeys might work in practice, with a view to legislation.</p><p> </p><p>The Government response to the report stated that we will bring forward legislation, when time allows, to enable the setting of national minimum standards in taxi and PHV licensing. We encourage licensing authorities to make full use of their extensive existing powers to protect passengers.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Mid Norfolk answering member printed George Freeman grouped question UIN 291401 291403 question first answered 01/10/2019 12:49:08 answering member 4020 label Biography information for George Freeman
tabling member	4425 label Biography information for Jo Stevens

1146467

registered interest
date	26/09/2019
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Taxis: Licensing
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to the Government’s response to the Report of the Task and Finish Group on Taxi and Private Hire Vehicle Licencing, whether the Government plans to bring forward legislation on restricting cross-border and out of area journeys by taxis.
tabling member constituency	Cardiff Central
tabling member printed	Jo Stevens
uin	291403
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/10/2019 answer text <p>Taxis and private hire vehicles (PHVs) are permitted to undertake pre-booked work outside of the area in which they are licensed. PHVs are subject to a triple licensing lock; the operator fulfilling the request, the driver and vehicle must all be licensed by the same authority. As set out in the Government’s response to the report by the Chair of the Task and Finish Group on Taxi and Private Hire Vehicle Licensing, which focused on the sector in England (as taxi and PHV policy is a devolved matter), the Government will consider how restrictions on out-of-area journeys might work in practice, with a view to legislation.</p><p> </p><p>The Government response to the report stated that we will bring forward legislation, when time allows, to enable the setting of national minimum standards in taxi and PHV licensing. We encourage licensing authorities to make full use of their extensive existing powers to protect passengers.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Mid Norfolk answering member printed George Freeman grouped question UIN 291401 291402 question first answered 01/10/2019 12:49:08 answering member 4020 label Biography information for George Freeman
tabling member	4425 label Biography information for Jo Stevens

1146480

registered interest
date	26/09/2019
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Freight: Contracts
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, when the competition for contracts under the Freight Capacity Framework Agreement will be completed and the winning bidders announced.
tabling member constituency	Kingston upon Hull East
tabling member printed	Karl Turner
uin	291366
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/10/2019 answer text <p>On Friday 20 September the Department announced the operators who had been successful in applying to join the Freight Capacity framework, and also launched two Call Off mini-competitions to provide capacity for 31 October. We intend to award Call Off contracts to successful bidders by 12 October.</p><p> </p><p>It will be for suppliers on the framework to set out in their bids the ports, airports and rail terminals that they intend to use to meet the government’s capacity requirements.</p><p> </p><p>To support the flow of vital Category 1 goods, the Call Off mini-competitions did not include those ports and terminals that posed an unacceptable risk of disruption to the flow of critical ‘category 1’ goods, including medicines.</p> answering member constituency Daventry answering member printed Chris Heaton-Harris grouped question UIN 291367 question first answered 04/10/2019 12:44:36 answering member 3977 label Biography information for Chris Heaton-Harris
tabling member	4030 label Biography information for Karl Turner

1146481

registered interest
date	26/09/2019
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Freight
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, which (a) ports, (b) airports and (c) rail freight terminals could provide additional freight capacity under the Freight Capacity Framework Agreement.
tabling member constituency	Kingston upon Hull East
tabling member printed	Karl Turner
uin	291367
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/10/2019 answer text <p>On Friday 20 September the Department announced the operators who had been successful in applying to join the Freight Capacity framework, and also launched two Call Off mini-competitions to provide capacity for 31 October. We intend to award Call Off contracts to successful bidders by 12 October.</p><p> </p><p>It will be for suppliers on the framework to set out in their bids the ports, airports and rail terminals that they intend to use to meet the government’s capacity requirements.</p><p> </p><p>To support the flow of vital Category 1 goods, the Call Off mini-competitions did not include those ports and terminals that posed an unacceptable risk of disruption to the flow of critical ‘category 1’ goods, including medicines.</p> answering member constituency Daventry answering member printed Chris Heaton-Harris grouped question UIN 291366 question first answered 04/10/2019 12:44:36 answering member 3977 label Biography information for Chris Heaton-Harris
tabling member	4030 label Biography information for Karl Turner

1146483

registered interest
date	26/09/2019
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Bus Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what recent discussions he has had with the Chancellor of the Exchequer on extending the Cycle to Work scheme to include bus travel.
tabling member constituency	Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport
tabling member printed	Luke Pollard
uin	291413
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/10/2019 answer text <p>The Secretary of State has had no discussions with the Chancellor of the Exchequer on extending the Cycle to Work scheme to include bus travel.</p> answering member constituency Daventry answering member printed Chris Heaton-Harris question first answered 02/10/2019 15:51:54 answering member 3977 label Biography information for Chris Heaton-Harris
tabling member	4682 label Biography information for Luke Pollard

1146484

registered interest
date	26/09/2019
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Borders Railway Line: Carlisle
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether he plans to make an assessment of the feasibility of extending the Borders railway to Carlisle.
tabling member constituency	Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk
tabling member printed	John Lamont
uin	291414
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/10/2019 answer text <p>Work on this is ongoing. On 1 July 2019, Ministers of the UK and Scottish Governments and the Leaders of the five councils of the Borderlands Partnership signed the ‘Heads of Terms’ for the £394.5 million Borderlands Inclusive Growth Deal. This includes up to £10 million joint funding with Scottish Government to assess the feasibility of extending the Borders Railway from Tweedbank to Carlisle.</p><p> </p><p>The full Heads of Terms document sets out further details of the projects being proposed and is available on the GOV.UK website at: <a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/816873/Borderlands_Growth_Deal_-_Heads_of_Terms_2019.pdf" target="_blank">https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/816873/Borderlands_Growth_Deal_-_Heads_of_Terms_2019.pdf</a></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Daventry answering member printed Chris Heaton-Harris question first answered 02/10/2019 15:57:38 answering member 3977 label Biography information for Chris Heaton-Harris
tabling member	4608 label Biography information for John Lamont

1146485

registered interest
date	26/09/2019
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Railways: North of England
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps his Department is taking to improve rail connectivity between South Yorkshire and Greater Manchester.
tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
uin	291415
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/10/2019 answer text <p>The Sheffield to Manchester corridor has recently seen an improvement which means that since 2018 there is an hourly Sheffield to Manchester Piccadilly service every day and two weekday trains per hour from New Mills Central to Manchester Piccadilly via Bredbury – one of these trains is a Hope Valley Sheffield service. We will be working with industry parties to deliver further improvements with the planned split of the Liverpool to Norwich East Midlands Railway service into a self-contained Liverpool to Nottingham service in 2021 and when the Hope Valley capacity improvement scheme is delivered thereafter.</p> answering member constituency Daventry answering member printed Chris Heaton-Harris question first answered 02/10/2019 16:01:11 answering member 3977 label Biography information for Chris Heaton-Harris
tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

1146486

registered interest
date	26/09/2019
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Hope Valley Line
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what progress his Department has made on the capacity improvement scheme planned for the Hope Valley Line; and what recent discussions he has had with Network Rail to ensure that work is completed as quickly as possible.
tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
uin	291416
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/10/2019 answer text <p>Network Rail have completed the single option design for the railway infrastructure scheme proposed in the Hope Valley and are working on plans to progress the work to the next stage ‘Decision to Deliver’. Network Rail have developed a procurement plan to deliver the scheme, and <em>expect to contact potential </em>suppliers shortly<em>.</em> They will be working with the train operators to assess the best way to deliver this scheme during control period 6 (2019-2024) with the least disruption to passengers.</p> answering member constituency Daventry answering member printed Chris Heaton-Harris question first answered 02/10/2019 16:11:13 answering member 3977 label Biography information for Chris Heaton-Harris
tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

1146573

registered interest
date	26/09/2019
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	ATOL
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how much was paid into the Civil Aviation Authority administered ATOL scheme by UK airlines in (a) 2016, (b) 2017 and (c) 2018.
tabling member constituency	Middlesbrough
tabling member printed	Andy McDonald
uin	291439
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/10/2019 answer text <p>Airlines do not pay into the Air Travel Trust Fund. The ATT is principally funded by ATOL Protection Contributions (APC). The Civil Aviation (Contributions to the Air Travel Trust) Regulations 2007 enable the ATT to collect APCs from ATOL Holders for each person who books air travel covered by an ATOL. The Air Travel Trust Fund accounts are publicly available online.</p> answering member constituency Blackpool North and Cleveleys answering member printed Paul Maynard question first answered 04/10/2019 13:00:10 answering member 3926 label Biography information for Paul Maynard
tabling member	4269 label Biography information for Andy McDonald