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1463978

registered interest
date	18/05/2022
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Driving: Diabetes
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will bring forward proposals to ensure that the use of closed-loop insulin monitoring systems is taken into account when assessing whether a person with diabetes is fit to drive.
tabling member constituency	Bristol West
tabling member printed	Thangam Debbonaire
uin	4608
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/05/2022 answer text <p>In January 2018, the law was changed to allow alternative methods of glucose monitoring to be accommodated for drivers of cars and motorcycles. This includes the use of closed-loop insulin monitoring systems, where a continuous glucose monitoring system (CGMS) monitors glucose levels. The Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency is gathering evidence to consider if the use of CGMS systems can be extended to drivers of HGVs and buses.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Copeland answering member printed Trudy Harrison question first answered 26/05/2022 13:44:37 answering member 4593 label Biography information for Trudy Harrison
tabling member	4433 label Biography information for Thangam Debbonaire

1463997

registered interest
date	18/05/2022
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Train Operating Companies: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what savings he is requiring in (a) 2022 and (b) 2023 from (i) each individual Train Operating Company and (ii) all Train Operating Companies in total; and whether in each case he is requiring a certain proportion of those savings to be found from salary costs.
tabling member constituency	Gateshead
tabling member printed	Ian Mearns
uin	4543
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/05/2022 answer text <p>Our railways are on financial life support. We have lost a quarter of our passengers and the Government has spent £16 billion during the pandemic, equivalent to nearly £600 per household, irrespective of whether they use the railways, to keep subsidising the railway. We need to make our railways fit for the future and want a fair deal for staff, passengers, and taxpayers so the railway does not take money away from other essential public services such as the NHS.</p><p> </p><p>Unions are threatening industrial action before talks have even begun. Strikes should be the last resort, not the first. They will stop customers choosing rail, and those passengers might never return, killing services and jobs. The RMT trade union are balloting 40,000 members from across England, Wales and Scotland for industrial action and we would expect the relevant devolved authorities to be engaging with the employers in affected areas.</p><p> </p><p>Train operating companies are the employers of rail staff, not the Government. They, therefore, individually negotiate with trade unions on matters such as pay.</p><p> </p><p>The Department has a commercial relationship with train operators, and we maintain a public register of rail contracts available on the Government website at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/guidance/public-register-of-rail-passenger-contracts" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/guidance/public-register-of-rail-passenger-contracts</a>. This contains guidance on how to request information and what information we are unable to publish.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Aldridge-Brownhills answering member printed Wendy Morton grouped question UIN 4544 4545 4546 4547 question first answered 23/05/2022 11:29:46 answering member 4358 label Biography information for Wendy Morton
tabling member	4000 label Biography information for Ian Mearns

1463998

registered interest
date	18/05/2022
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Train Operating Companies: Expenditure and Staff
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will publish the correspondence between his Department and Train Operating Companies on spending cuts and workforce reforms since the Autumn Statement on 27 October 2021.
tabling member constituency	Gateshead
tabling member printed	Ian Mearns
uin	4544
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/05/2022 answer text <p>Our railways are on financial life support. We have lost a quarter of our passengers and the Government has spent £16 billion during the pandemic, equivalent to nearly £600 per household, irrespective of whether they use the railways, to keep subsidising the railway. We need to make our railways fit for the future and want a fair deal for staff, passengers, and taxpayers so the railway does not take money away from other essential public services such as the NHS.</p><p> </p><p>Unions are threatening industrial action before talks have even begun. Strikes should be the last resort, not the first. They will stop customers choosing rail, and those passengers might never return, killing services and jobs. The RMT trade union are balloting 40,000 members from across England, Wales and Scotland for industrial action and we would expect the relevant devolved authorities to be engaging with the employers in affected areas.</p><p> </p><p>Train operating companies are the employers of rail staff, not the Government. They, therefore, individually negotiate with trade unions on matters such as pay.</p><p> </p><p>The Department has a commercial relationship with train operators, and we maintain a public register of rail contracts available on the Government website at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/guidance/public-register-of-rail-passenger-contracts" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/guidance/public-register-of-rail-passenger-contracts</a>. This contains guidance on how to request information and what information we are unable to publish.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Aldridge-Brownhills answering member printed Wendy Morton grouped question UIN 4543 4545 4546 4547 question first answered 23/05/2022 11:29:46 answering member 4358 label Biography information for Wendy Morton
tabling member	4000 label Biography information for Ian Mearns

1463999

registered interest
date	18/05/2022
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Train Operating Companies: Pay
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what pay mandate he has set for the Train Operating Companies in 2022.
tabling member constituency	Gateshead
tabling member printed	Ian Mearns
uin	4545
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/05/2022 answer text <p>Our railways are on financial life support. We have lost a quarter of our passengers and the Government has spent £16 billion during the pandemic, equivalent to nearly £600 per household, irrespective of whether they use the railways, to keep subsidising the railway. We need to make our railways fit for the future and want a fair deal for staff, passengers, and taxpayers so the railway does not take money away from other essential public services such as the NHS.</p><p> </p><p>Unions are threatening industrial action before talks have even begun. Strikes should be the last resort, not the first. They will stop customers choosing rail, and those passengers might never return, killing services and jobs. The RMT trade union are balloting 40,000 members from across England, Wales and Scotland for industrial action and we would expect the relevant devolved authorities to be engaging with the employers in affected areas.</p><p> </p><p>Train operating companies are the employers of rail staff, not the Government. They, therefore, individually negotiate with trade unions on matters such as pay.</p><p> </p><p>The Department has a commercial relationship with train operators, and we maintain a public register of rail contracts available on the Government website at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/guidance/public-register-of-rail-passenger-contracts" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/guidance/public-register-of-rail-passenger-contracts</a>. This contains guidance on how to request information and what information we are unable to publish.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Aldridge-Brownhills answering member printed Wendy Morton grouped question UIN 4543 4544 4546 4547 question first answered 23/05/2022 11:29:46 answering member 4358 label Biography information for Wendy Morton
tabling member	4000 label Biography information for Ian Mearns

1464001

registered interest
date	18/05/2022
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Train Operating Companies: Pay
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether Train Operating Companies will be permitted to individually negotiate pay settlements in the event of an industrial dispute.
tabling member constituency	Gateshead
tabling member printed	Ian Mearns
uin	4546
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/05/2022 answer text <p>Our railways are on financial life support. We have lost a quarter of our passengers and the Government has spent £16 billion during the pandemic, equivalent to nearly £600 per household, irrespective of whether they use the railways, to keep subsidising the railway. We need to make our railways fit for the future and want a fair deal for staff, passengers, and taxpayers so the railway does not take money away from other essential public services such as the NHS.</p><p> </p><p>Unions are threatening industrial action before talks have even begun. Strikes should be the last resort, not the first. They will stop customers choosing rail, and those passengers might never return, killing services and jobs. The RMT trade union are balloting 40,000 members from across England, Wales and Scotland for industrial action and we would expect the relevant devolved authorities to be engaging with the employers in affected areas.</p><p> </p><p>Train operating companies are the employers of rail staff, not the Government. They, therefore, individually negotiate with trade unions on matters such as pay.</p><p> </p><p>The Department has a commercial relationship with train operators, and we maintain a public register of rail contracts available on the Government website at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/guidance/public-register-of-rail-passenger-contracts" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/guidance/public-register-of-rail-passenger-contracts</a>. This contains guidance on how to request information and what information we are unable to publish.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Aldridge-Brownhills answering member printed Wendy Morton grouped question UIN 4543 4544 4545 4547 question first answered 23/05/2022 11:29:46 answering member 4358 label Biography information for Wendy Morton
tabling member	4000 label Biography information for Ian Mearns

1464002

registered interest
date	18/05/2022
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Railways: Strikes
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what representations he has received on the impact of industrial action on the railways from (a) rail industry organisations and (b) devolved authorities.
tabling member constituency	Gateshead
tabling member printed	Ian Mearns
uin	4547
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/05/2022 answer text <p>Our railways are on financial life support. We have lost a quarter of our passengers and the Government has spent £16 billion during the pandemic, equivalent to nearly £600 per household, irrespective of whether they use the railways, to keep subsidising the railway. We need to make our railways fit for the future and want a fair deal for staff, passengers, and taxpayers so the railway does not take money away from other essential public services such as the NHS.</p><p> </p><p>Unions are threatening industrial action before talks have even begun. Strikes should be the last resort, not the first. They will stop customers choosing rail, and those passengers might never return, killing services and jobs. The RMT trade union are balloting 40,000 members from across England, Wales and Scotland for industrial action and we would expect the relevant devolved authorities to be engaging with the employers in affected areas.</p><p> </p><p>Train operating companies are the employers of rail staff, not the Government. They, therefore, individually negotiate with trade unions on matters such as pay.</p><p> </p><p>The Department has a commercial relationship with train operators, and we maintain a public register of rail contracts available on the Government website at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/guidance/public-register-of-rail-passenger-contracts" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/guidance/public-register-of-rail-passenger-contracts</a>. This contains guidance on how to request information and what information we are unable to publish.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Aldridge-Brownhills answering member printed Wendy Morton grouped question UIN 4543 4544 4545 4546 question first answered 23/05/2022 11:29:46 answering member 4358 label Biography information for Wendy Morton
tabling member	4000 label Biography information for Ian Mearns

1464100

registered interest
date	18/05/2022
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Clean Air Zones: Infrastructure
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether the Government plans to establish a national clean air zone infrastructure scheme rather than various local ones.
tabling member constituency	Bradford South
tabling member printed	Judith Cummins
uin	4596
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/05/2022 answer text <p>We have developed a national Clean Air Zone (CAZ) infrastructure scheme through the ‘Drive in a Clean Air Zone’ service. This centralised service and IT infrastructure ensures a consistent approach for users across Clean Air Zones. Certain matters, such as charges and local exemptions, are for LAs to determine and agree with Government. This is due to the highly localised nature of the pollution, where local knowledge is crucial in solving the problem.</p> answering member constituency Copeland answering member printed Trudy Harrison question first answered 26/05/2022 13:13:12 answering member 4593 label Biography information for Trudy Harrison
tabling member	4391 label Biography information for Judith Cummins

1464101

registered interest
date	18/05/2022
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Clean Air Zones
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 fairness of Clean Air Zones which do not alert drivers when they have entered the zone prompting them to pay.
tabling member constituency	Bradford South
tabling member printed	Judith Cummins
uin	4597
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/05/2022 answer text <p>Steps are taken to notify non-compliant vehicle keepers about an upcoming CAZ, through sending out Early Notice letters. These letters are sent, before the CAZ is launched, to keepers of non-compliant vehicles to alert them that they will be subject to a charge. Local authorities can also offer a period of ‘soft enforcement’ after the CAZ is launched, in which motorists receive a Penalty Charge Notice (PCN) but have a period in which they are only required to pay the CAZ charge.</p> answering member constituency Copeland answering member printed Trudy Harrison question first answered 26/05/2022 13:19:37 answering member 4593 label Biography information for Trudy Harrison
tabling member	4391 label Biography information for Judith Cummins

1464224

registered interest
date	18/05/2022
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Active Travel England
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, when Active Travel England will present its strategy to the Government.
tabling member constituency	York Central
tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
uin	4623
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/05/2022 answer text <p>The Department for Transport is in the process of drawing up a Framework Document regarding the nature of its relationship with Active Travel England. This will require Active Travel England each year to seek the Department’s approval for a business plan and strategy for achieving its key objectives. The first such business plan is likely to be shared with the Department later this financial year.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Copeland answering member printed Trudy Harrison question first answered 26/05/2022 13:32:14 answering member 4593 label Biography information for Trudy Harrison
tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell

1464225

registered interest
date	18/05/2022
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Cycling and Walking
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, following the institution of Active Travel England, what discussions he has had with representatives of local authorities on the expertise required to implement Gear Change and the Cycling and Walking Investment Strategy.
tabling member constituency	York Central
tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
uin	4624
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/05/2022 answer text <p>The Department agrees that local authorities need the capacity and capability to deliver the objectives set out in these ambitious strategies. Active Travel England will have a key role to play in supporting and upskilling local authority officers, and it has already started this process. It has, for example, held meetings with, and provided detailed feedback on scheme designs, to individual local authorities. It has also run events such as a major online workshop in April for local authority planners and transport officers, which was attended by over 400 officers from 120 local authorities. The Department has also been running a series of local authority training sessions, which will see over 1,000 officers receiving training on cycle infrastructure design.</p> answering member constituency Copeland answering member printed Trudy Harrison question first answered 26/05/2022 13:35:15 answering member 4593 label Biography information for Trudy Harrison
tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell