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753583

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date	18/07/2017
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Zoological Society of London: Parking
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment he has made of the effect on the operation of London Zoo of the proposal by High Speed 2 Ltd to use the Zoological Society of London's car park.
tabling member constituency	Dudley North
tabling member printed	Ian Austin
uin	5828
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/07/2017 answer text <p>The High Speed Rail (London to West Midland) Act 2017, as approved by Parliament, includes the provision of a lorry holding area (LHA) on the southern part of London Zoo’s cark park.</p><p> </p><p>The impacts of the proposed LHA on London Zoo were considered as part of the Parliamentary process. The House of Commons and House of Lords Select Committees both considered, but ultimately rejected the Zoological Society of London’s (ZSL) proposals for the LHA to be relocated.</p><p> </p><p>However, HS2 Ltd remain committed to seeking to mitigate the impacts of the LHA on the operation of London Zoo. HS2 Ltd has offered to work with ZSL to optimise the remaining area of the car park to suit their requirements, as far as is reasonably practicable. In addition, an assurance has been provided to ZSL that HS2 Ltd will seek to reduce or obviate the impacts of the LHA, as far as is reasonably practicable, during the detailed design stage.</p> answering member constituency Blackpool North and Cleveleys answering member printed Paul Maynard question first answered 25/07/2017 10:40:01 answering member 3926 label Biography information for Paul Maynard
tabling member	1511 label Biography information for Lord Austin of Dudley

752779

registered interest
date	17/07/2017
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Zoological Society of London: Parking
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what discussions he has had with (a) HS2 Ltd and (b) the Zoological Society of London on the proposal to use London Zoo's car park as a lorry park for heavy goods vehicles.
tabling member constituency	Dudley North
tabling member printed	Ian Austin
uin	5150
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/07/2017 answer text <p>The High Speed Rail (London to West Midland) Act 2017, as approved by Parliament, includes the provision of a lorry holding area (LHA) on the southern part of London Zoo’s cark park. The LHA is required for traffic management purposes to regulate the flow of construction traffic to the HS2 Euston construction worksite.</p><p> </p><p>The then Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Transport (Andrew Jones MP), met with representatives of the Zoological Society of London (ZSL) in April 2017, where they presented updated proposals for the relocation the LHA. Following the meeting, the Minister commissioned HS2 Ltd to undertake a study to consider ZSL’s proposals. The outcomes of this study, which are expected shortly, will be shared with ZSL.</p> answering member constituency Blackpool North and Cleveleys answering member printed Paul Maynard question first answered 21/07/2017 11:05:50 answering member 3926 label Biography information for Paul Maynard
tabling member	1511 label Biography information for Lord Austin of Dudley

752781

registered interest
date	17/07/2017
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Zoological Society of London: Parking
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment he has made of the effect of the proposal by HS2 Ltd to use the Zoological Society of London's car park on the safety of schoolchildren and others visiting London zoo.
tabling member constituency	Dudley North
tabling member printed	Ian Austin
uin	5149
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/07/2017 answer text <p>The High Speed Rail (London to West Midland) Act 2017, as approved by Parliament, includes the provision of a lorry holding area (LHA) on the southern part of London Zoo’s cark park. An off-street lorry holding area (LHA) is required to manage the impacts of HS2 construction traffic on the central London highways. The provision of an LHA is recommended by Transport for London and considered essential to enable effective traffic management in a built up area such as Euston.</p><p> </p><p>In considering locations for an LHA, HS2 Ltd undertook a sift process where alternative locations were examined for the LHA. None of the alternatives were deemed preferable to the London Zoo car park, as they were either further away from Euston or would have had greater environmental or local community impacts, including in relation to school children and other pedestrians.</p><p> </p><p>The safety of pedestrians, cyclists and other road users is integral to the HS2 traffic management plans that will be implemented upon the establishment of such sites. The LHA at ZSL is designed so that will be segregated from the remaining car park with secure hoarding. In addition, a new access will be provided for construction traffic, to prevent the interaction of construction vehicles and vehicles transporting visitors to the zoo via the existing car park entrance. A new pedestrian crossing will also be provided.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Blackpool North and Cleveleys answering member printed Paul Maynard question first answered 21/07/2017 11:09:10 answering member 3926 label Biography information for Paul Maynard
tabling member	1511 label Biography information for Lord Austin of Dudley

684087

registered interest
date	03/02/2017
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: Regional Airports
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 support the connectivity of regional airports to High Speed 2.
tabling member constituency	Dudley North
tabling member printed	Ian Austin
uin	63040
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/02/2017 answer text <p>High Speed 2 will transform our country’s railways and airport connectivity. As part of Phase One, there will be access to Birmingham Airport via a high capacity people mover at Birmingham Interchange, and excellent links to Heathrow via direct train links at Old Oak Common. Phase Two will further improve regional airport connectivity, with a dedicated HS2 station to Manchester Airport. The new HS2 station at Toton will allow easy access to East Midlands airport.</p> answering member constituency Harrogate and Knaresborough answering member printed Andrew Jones question first answered 08/02/2017 13:45:59 answering member 3996 label Biography information for Andrew Jones
tabling member	1511 label Biography information for Lord Austin of Dudley

681366

registered interest
date	30/01/2017
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Cycling: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what proportion of the Department's total budget will be spent on cycling between 2015 and 2020.
tabling member constituency	Dudley North
tabling member printed	Ian Austin
uin	62383
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/02/2017 answer text <p>This Government has trebled spending on cycling and making cycling safer. Estimated Government investment in walking and cycling until 2019-20 is over £1billion. This includes funding for Cycling Ambition Cities, Highways England, schemes already committed in the Local Growth Fund and a portion of the Integrated Transport Block based on previous trends. It does not include the funding to be allocated through the latest round of the Local Growth Fund.</p><p> </p><p>The department’s budget has also increased to spend record amounts of investment to upgrade road and rail, the biggest investment in a generation, and cycling schemes benefit from this investment.</p> answering member constituency Harrogate and Knaresborough answering member printed Andrew Jones question first answered 02/02/2017 15:22:09 answering member 3996 label Biography information for Andrew Jones
tabling member	1511 label Biography information for Lord Austin of Dudley