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1489654

registered interest
date	15/07/2022
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Transport for the North
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, when he last met the Chair of Transport for the North.
tabling member constituency	City of Chester
tabling member printed	Christian Matheson
uin	37512
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/07/2022 answer text <p>The Secretary of State and Departmental ministers meet regularly with the Chair of Transport for the North.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Copeland answering member printed Trudy Harrison question first answered 21/07/2022 10:17:24 answering member 4593 label Biography information for Trudy Harrison
tabling member	4408 label Biography information for Christian Matheson

1489172

registered interest
date	14/07/2022
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: West Coast Main Line
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what recent estimate his Department has made of the potential financial impact of (a) the Golborne Link and (b) an HS2 connection to the West Coast Main Line.
tabling member constituency	Slough
tabling member printed	Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi
uin	36855
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/07/2022 answer text <p><strong> </strong></p><p>On 20 June 2022 the Government announced in a Written Ministerial Statement laid in Parliament the publication of the Supplement to that update: <a href="https://eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.gov.uk%2Fgovernment%2Fpublications%2Fhs2-crewe-to-manchester-impacts-of-removing-the-golborne-link&amp;data=05%7C01%7CVictor.Okogwu%40dft.gov.uk%7Cd91f2ec2e69a4cd1659208da664c2e74%7C28b782fb41e148eabfc3ad7558ce7136%7C0%7C0%7C637934774614666623%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=Dbd2IhKRRZ31N2H%2FzebpZiYbcBulAzGHG4xAQQ9BFYg%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">www.gov.uk/government/publications/hs2-crewe-to-manchester-impacts-of-removing-the-golborne-link</a>. This sets out the financial considerations regarding the Golborne Link and connecting the HS2 network to the West Coast Main Line.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Copeland answering member printed Trudy Harrison question first answered 21/07/2022 09:45:34 answering member 4593 label Biography information for Trudy Harrison
tabling member	4638 label Biography information for Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi

1489173

registered interest
date	14/07/2022
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	National Union of Rail Maritime and Transport Workers: Industrial Disputes
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 representatives of the National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers (RMT) on negotiations relating to the planned strike action on 27 July 2022.
tabling member constituency	Slough
tabling member printed	Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi
uin	36856
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/07/2022 answer text <p>Negotiations on matters such as pay must take place between the trade unions and the employer. The Secretary of State is in close touch with the industry on the negotiations and frequently engages with them.</p> answering member constituency Aldridge-Brownhills answering member printed Wendy Morton question first answered 18/07/2022 14:25:02 answering member 4358 label Biography information for Wendy Morton
tabling member	4638 label Biography information for Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi

1489177

registered interest
date	14/07/2022
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Cycling and Walking: Schools
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will take steps with the Secretary of State for Education to (a) promote walking and cycling to school and (b) develop a reward scheme for children who participate.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	36766
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/07/2022 answer text <p>Officials from this Department have regular discussions with their colleagues from the Department for Education on how best to enable more walking, wheeling and cycling to school. The Government has a statutory objective, recently confirmed in the second statutory Cycling and Walking Investment Strategy published on 6 July, to increase to 55% by 2025 the percentage of children aged 5-10 who usually walk to school.</p><p> </p><p>The Government has pledged to invest £2 billion in active travel over the current Parliament, and this is allowing many local authorities to invest in better and safer infrastructure, such as school streets, to enable more walking and cycling to school. The Department is also providing £2 million of funding this financial year for a Walk To School programme delivered by the charity Living Streets. The programme includes incentives such as badges to encourage more children to walk to school.</p><p> </p><p>The Government is providing a record £20 million this financial year to support cycle training for children through the Bikeability programme. This should give many more children the confidence to cycle safely to school as well as for other journeys.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Copeland answering member printed Trudy Harrison question first answered 20/07/2022 14:31:05 answering member 4593 label Biography information for Trudy Harrison
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

1489223

registered interest
date	14/07/2022
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Electric Vehicles: Grants
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to the news story entitled Plug-in grant for cars to end as focus moves to improving electric vehicle charging, published by his Department on 14 June 2022, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of removing electric car subsidies on the transition to electric vehicles.
tabling member constituency	Bath
tabling member printed	Wera Hobhouse
uin	36849
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/07/2022 answer text <p><strong> </strong></p><p>The Government’s approach to supporting the uptake of electric cars is clearly working – while the Government slowly reduced the grant over time, the sale of electric vehicles soared. The Plug-in Car Grant has had significant impacts on building the early electric car market, which is now maturing. The sales of fully electric cars grew from less than 1,000 in 2011 to almost 100,000 in the first 5 months of 2022 alone. Although still important, price is no longer the paramount barrier to adoption of electric cars.</p><p> </p><p>An independent report commissioned by the Office for Zero Emission Vehicles to assess the impact of the grant scheme, found that the grant has had a material impact on demand for new electric cars, but also that the importance of it has reduced as the market has matured and price has become less of a barrier to vehicle uptake.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Copeland answering member printed Trudy Harrison question first answered 21/07/2022 09:52:35 answering member 4593 label Biography information for Trudy Harrison
tabling member	4602 label Biography information for Wera Hobhouse

1489224

registered interest
date	14/07/2022
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Doncaster Sheffield Airport
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how much funding from the public purse Peel Holding has received for operating Doncaster Sheffield Airport in each year since 1999.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Heeley
tabling member printed	Louise Haigh
uin	36826
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/07/2022 answer text <p>Subsidies provided by Government over certain amounts are published online. In 2021 the Department for Transport provided £1,758,720 to Doncaster Sheffield Airport in grant payments as part of the Airport and Ground Operations Support Scheme. During the pandemic the government has also provided around £8bn in support through package of measures during the pandemic to support the air transport sector. This includes support through loan guarantees, the Bank of England’s Covid Corporate Financing Facility and the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme. Doncaster Sheffield Airport may have drawn from that wider support.</p><p> </p><p>During the UK’s membership of the European Union and the EU Exit Implementation Period, any subsidies exceeding an amount of approximately €500k made available to organisations were published on <a href="https://eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fec.europa.eu%2Ftransparencyregister%2Fpublic%2Fconsultation%2Fsearch.do%3Flocale%3Den&amp;data=05%7C01%7CRobert.Courts_MP%40dft.gov.uk%7C37842c76a91e418c5c1208da6a6142a0%7C28b782fb41e148eabfc3ad7558ce7136%7C0%7C0%7C637939263206776551%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=h9MOAmUMrwQ8Kp%2Fa7Uoew60rJgKGtsMwuIR4BUlnYn4%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">https://ec.europa.eu/transparencyregister/public/consultation/search.do?locale=en</a>.</p><p> </p><p>Following the United Kingdom’s departure from the EU, any subsidies exceeding an amount of approximately £368k are now published on <a href="https://eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gov.uk%2Fguidance%2Fview-subsidies-awarded-by-uk-government&amp;data=05%7C01%7CRobert.Courts_MP%40dft.gov.uk%7C37842c76a91e418c5c1208da6a6142a0%7C28b782fb41e148eabfc3ad7558ce7136%7C0%7C0%7C637939263206776551%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=hpF3Q2USQIUIichoN7x6VVpKY7DKLJXQIR4CU%2FX56KY%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/guidance/view-subsidies-awarded-by-uk-government</a>.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Witney answering member printed Robert Courts question first answered 22/07/2022 08:41:25 answering member 4589 label Biography information for Robert Courts
tabling member	4473 label Biography information for Louise Haigh

1489237

registered interest
date	14/07/2022
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Bus Services: Fares
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will make an estimate of the average cost of bus travel in each year since 2000, broken down by region.
tabling member constituency	Bath
tabling member printed	Wera Hobhouse
uin	36851
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/07/2022 answer text <p>The Department does not hold the information that is being requested on the estimate of average cost of bus travel since 2000, broken down by region.</p><p> </p><p>The Department does however publish a quarterly index of local bus fares, by metropolitan area status and country, from 2005 onwards.</p><p> </p><p>Data for the bus fares index is collected through a sample survey of around 100 operators and TfL. The index provides an estimate of the change in the average cost of bus travel to the passenger but not the actual fare levels paid as the data are not collected.</p><p>The information can be found in the table at the following link:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1086052/bus0415.ods" target="_blank">https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1086052/bus0415.ods</a></p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Lincoln answering member printed Karl McCartney question first answered 22/07/2022 10:30:32 answering member 4028 label Biography information for Karl McCartney
tabling member	4602 label Biography information for Wera Hobhouse

1489240

registered interest
date	14/07/2022
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Bus Services: Concessions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether he has plans to implement free nationwide bus travel for people aged under 22 in the context of the introduction of free bus travel for people of that age by the devolved Administration in Scotland from the start of 2022.
tabling member constituency	Coventry North West
tabling member printed	Taiwo Owatemi
uin	36907
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/07/2022 answer text <p>Under the English National Concessionary Travel Scheme (ENCTS), the Government supports council spending of around £1 billion a year to offer free bus travel to those who have reached State Pension Age and those with eligible disabilities.</p><p> </p><p>Concessionary travel legislation gives local authorities the flexibility to offer further local travel concessions such as free or discounted travel to young people. Bus operators can also offer discounted travel for young people. In 2020/21 operators in 80% of the travel concession authority areas in England, outside London, offered some form of discounted travel for young people.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Lincoln answering member printed Karl McCartney question first answered 22/07/2022 10:12:02 answering member 4028 label Biography information for Karl McCartney
tabling member	4779 label Biography information for Taiwo Owatemi

1489265

registered interest
date	14/07/2022
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Railway Stations: North West
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps he is taking in partnership with local transport authorities to improve accessibility at railway stations in the North West.
tabling member constituency	St Helens North
tabling member printed	Conor McGinn
uin	36808
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/07/2022 answer text <p>I remain committed to improving accessibility for all passengers at rail stations. I recently announced the next round of Access for All nominations. Any station currently without step-free access will be eligible.</p><p> </p><p>I am also carrying out a full accessibility audit of all stations in Great Britain to understand where we need to do more to improve accessibility.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Aldridge-Brownhills answering member printed Wendy Morton question first answered 19/07/2022 12:03:53 answering member 4358 label Biography information for Wendy Morton
tabling member	4458 label Biography information for Conor McGinn

1489290

registered interest
date	14/07/2022
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Railway Stations: Access
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 representatives of Northern Rail on the (a) efficacy and (b) practical workings of its Accessible Travel Policy including the policy of arranging alternative transport when a customer cannot access a platform.
tabling member constituency	St Helens North
tabling member printed	Conor McGinn
uin	36809
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/07/2022 answer text <p>There is robust and locally-based periodic and day-to-day management of the Northern Trains Limited contract, through the Rail North Partnership, including in the area of Accessibility.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Aldridge-Brownhills answering member printed Wendy Morton question first answered 19/07/2022 11:58:31 answering member 4358 label Biography information for Wendy Morton
tabling member	4458 label Biography information for Conor McGinn