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registered interest
date	11/11/2014
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Unmanned Air Vehicles
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what measures presently exist to control unmanned aerial vehicles.
tabling member printed	Lord Fearn
uin	HL2829
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/11/2014 answer text <p>Civilian Remotely Piloted Aircraft operations are closely regulated by the Civil Aviation Authority and are treated in the same manner as that of equivalent manned aircraft. However, until such time that remotely piloted aircraft systems can demonstrate that they are both airworthy and capable of avoiding other airspace users, all operations must be contained within segregated airspace, to which access for manned aircraft is prevented or closely controlled.</p><p> </p><p>The use of unmanned aircraft is specifically covered by the Air Navigation Order, which legislates for the ‘general’ flying aspects and the flight of those equipped for surveillance. As well as these specific articles, a more general article which prevents a person ‘causing or permitting an aircraft to endanger the safety of any person or property’ also remains applicable.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Kramer question first answered 24/11/2014 14:40:05 answering member 1557 label Biography information for Baroness Kramer
tabling member	488 label Biography information for Lord Fearn

147348

registered interest
date	10/11/2014
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Roads: Safety
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government for how many years road safety audits are retained by the Highways Agency; and what is the minimum period that Transport for London and local highways authorities are required to keep them.
tabling member printed	Lord Berkeley
uin	HL2752
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/11/2014 answer text <p>The Highways Agency follow an internal procedures manual that recommends that the Road Safety Audits they undertake should be retained for 30 years either from the date of the opening of the scheme, or following the completion of the final phase.</p><p> </p><p>In accordance with Transport for London’s document retention policy for Road Safety Audit reports and related information, these records must be retained for a period of 21 years from the date the report is issued. Local highway authorities will have their own individual processes for retention of Road Safety Audits.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Kramer question first answered 24/11/2014 14:39:22 answering member 1557 label Biography information for Baroness Kramer
tabling member	3526 label Biography information for Lord Berkeley

147350

registered interest
date	10/11/2014
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Airports
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether they intend to couple any expansion of airport capacity with the carbon pricing mechanism proposed by the Davies Commission which aims to ensure that demand remains below the level that can be supplied by the new capacity across the United Kingdom.
tabling member printed	Baroness Jones of Moulsecoomb
uin	HL2754
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/11/2014 answer text <p>The Coalition agreement rules out current airport expansion in the South East for the life of this Parliament.</p><p> </p><p>To ensure our long term connectivity needs can be met, this Government established the independent Airports Commission to identify and recommend to Government options for maintaining this country’s status as an international hub for aviation. Although options for expansion have been shortlisted by the Commission for further examination, its final recommendations are not due to be published until the summer of 2015.</p><p> </p><p>It will be for the Government of the day to consider the environmental impacts, including CO2 emissions, of any proposed expansion with reference to the Airports Commission’s recommendations.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Kramer question first answered 24/11/2014 14:35:12 answering member 1557 label Biography information for Baroness Kramer
tabling member	4297 label Biography information for Baroness Jones of Moulsecoomb

147390

registered interest
date	10/11/2014
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	M1
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what percentage of the M1 motorway is currently subject to roadworks reducing traffic speeds to 50 miles per hour; and how long any such roadworks will take to complete.
tabling member printed	Lord Mawson
uin	HL2794
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/11/2014 answer text <p><strong> </strong></p><p>The percentage of the M1 currently subject to roadworks reducing traffic speeds to 50 mph is 25 percent.</p><p> </p><p>The table below provides details of the projects on the M1 which are currently under construction or are undertaking works that require a 50mph speed limit to be in place. It also advises when those speed limits will be removed, and where applicable, when the project is expected to complete.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Scheme</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Removal of 50mph speed restriction</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Publically committed scheme completion</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>M1 J19-16 smart motorway*</p></td><td><p>Summer 2015</p></td><td><p>Post 2015</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>M1 J19 improvement</p></td><td><p>Autumn 2016</p></td><td><p>2016/17</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>M1 J28-31 smart motorway</p></td><td><p>Autumn 2015</p></td><td><p>2015</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>M1 J39-42 smart motorway</p></td><td><p>Autumn 2015</p></td><td><p>2015/16</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>*The M1 J19-16 scheme is a project identified for delivery post 2015. The works currently being undertaken at this location are central barrier work, replacing the existing, life expired, steel central reserve with a concrete barrier. The Highways Agency will also take the opportunity to undertake some associated smart motorway enabling works at the same time in readiness for scheme start.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Kramer question first answered 24/11/2014 14:33:59 answering member 1557 label Biography information for Baroness Kramer
tabling member	3830 label Biography information for Lord Mawson

147391

registered interest
date	10/11/2014
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	M1
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what is the estimated cost to the British economy of roadworks on the M1 during 2014–15.
tabling member printed	Lord Mawson
uin	HL2795
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/11/2014 answer text <p>The total estimated congestion cost for journeys through all road works on the M1 was £55 million for the five month period April to August 2014 (the most recent data available for financial year 2014/15).</p> answering member printed Baroness Kramer question first answered 19/11/2014 14:22:20 answering member 1557 label Biography information for Baroness Kramer
tabling member	3830 label Biography information for Lord Mawson

143441

registered interest
date	07/11/2014
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Railways
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 Kramer on 6 November (HL2589), what savings they have made to date from alliances between passenger train operators and Network Rail.
tabling member printed	Lord Berkeley
uin	HL2726
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/11/2014 answer text <p>The sole deep Alliance between a passenger train operator and Network Rail (NR) is the Wessex Alliance between South West Trains and NR. It seeks to deliver benefits such as more effective station management, better planning of track maintenance, aligned objectives and operational efficiencies</p><p> </p><p>The Alliance sees South West Trains and Network Rail share risks and opportunities within agreed parameters. To date, the Alliance has focused on improving the underlying condition of the infrastructure in order to secure operational efficiencies in the future. That approach has not yet generated savings for the Alliance, or therefore Government. Network Rail and South West Trains have, however, gained sufficient confidence in the potential of the Alliance to continue the arrangements into 2017 and we expect to see a financial return arising from these arrangements.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Kramer question first answered 17/11/2014 12:01:32 answering member 1557 label Biography information for Baroness Kramer
tabling member	3526 label Biography information for Lord Berkeley

143457

registered interest
date	07/11/2014
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Utilities: Road Works
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of the way in which utility companies work with local authorities to minimise disruption to residents as a result of works they have to undertake.
tabling member printed	Lord Kennedy of Southwark
uin	HL2742
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/11/2014 answer text <p>The Government has made no specific assessment, although under the New Roads and Street Works Act 1991, the street authority has a duty to co-ordinate all works on its road network in order to minimise inconvenience to road users, and utilities have a duty to co-operate with them in doing that. Utility companies have statutory powers to carry out works to maintain or install their apparatus in the street to provide the services that we all rely on. The Government works closely with both local highway authorities and utilities to help them deliver those duties effectively.</p><p> </p><p>The Traffic Management Act 2004 also places a 'Network Management Duty' on authorities to keep traffic moving as far as practical and enables authorities to introduce permit schemes for street works to help them to do that. In 2012, the Government increased the penalties that local authorities can impose where street works by utility companies overrun their agreed duration, up to a maximum charge of £10,000 a day. We are also carrying out a trial of ‘Lane Rental’ on Transport for London and Kent County Council’s networks. This allows authorities to charge utilities to work on the busiest roads at the busiest times. We are currently looking at the impacts of those schemes.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Kramer question first answered 19/11/2014 14:21:36 answering member 1557 label Biography information for Baroness Kramer
tabling member	4153 label Biography information for Lord Kennedy of Southwark

142605

registered interest
date	06/11/2014
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Unmanned Air Vehicles
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether there is any United Kingdom legislation that applies to the use of drones of less than 20 kilograms.
tabling member printed	Lord West of Spithead
uin	HL2708
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/11/2014 answer text <p>Yes. The use of small unmanned aircraft of less than 20 kilograms is specifically covered by two articles within the Air Navigation Order, which legislate for the ‘general’ flying aspects and the flight of those equipped for surveillance. As well as these specific articles, a more general article which prevents a person ‘causing or permitting an aircraft to endanger the safety of any person or property’ also remains applicable.</p> answering member printed Baroness Kramer question first answered 19/11/2014 14:04:04 answering member 1557 label Biography information for Baroness Kramer
tabling member	3834 label Biography information for Lord West of Spithead

106188

registered interest
date	04/11/2014
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Cycling: Helmets
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether they have any plans to make it a legal requirement for cyclists to wear helmets; and if not, why not.
tabling member printed	Lord Laird
uin	HL2659
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/11/2014 answer text <p>We have no plans to make it a legal requirement for cyclists to wear helmets.</p><p> </p><p>Government policy is that the cycle helmets offer a degree of protection for cyclists in the event of a fall from a cycle and some types of collisions. In line with the Highway Code rule 59, we encourage their use by all cyclists and in particular by children. However people and parents are free to choose whether to follow this advice and we have no plans to legislate to introduce mandatory enforcement of cycle helmet wearing.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Kramer question first answered 18/11/2014 12:44:45 answering member 1557 label Biography information for Baroness Kramer
tabling member	2479 label Biography information for Lord Laird

106189

registered interest
date	04/11/2014
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Cycling
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether they have any plans to make cycling road rules more enforceable; and if not, why not.
tabling member printed	Lord Laird
uin	HL2660
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/11/2014 answer text <p>The enforcement of cycling offences is an operational matter for individual chief officers of police. Depending on the offence officers can issue verbal warnings, fixed penalty notices or report the road user for formal prosecution. We support any action taken by the police to deter and reduce the number of cycling offences.</p> answering member printed Baroness Kramer question first answered 18/11/2014 12:43:48 answering member 1557 label Biography information for Baroness Kramer
tabling member	2479 label Biography information for Lord Laird