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1487350

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date	07/07/2022
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	P&O Ferries: Contracts
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what advice his Department has provided to other Government departments regarding publicly funded contracts with P&O Ferries since 17 March 2022.
tabling member constituency	Easington
tabling member printed	Grahame Morris
uin	32519
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/07/2022 answer text <p><del class="ministerial">The way 800 loyal and experienced workers were treated by P&amp;O Ferries was shameful and utterly unacceptable. There is no excuse for their actions – and we continue to hold them to account.</del></p><p><del class="ministerial">The Department for Transport has conducted a thorough review of government contracts with P&amp;O Ferries, finding that they are not providing any direct services to UK Government. One contract between the Home Office and P&amp;O Ferries was terminated.</del></p><p><del class="ministerial">Whilst the review has concluded, if a contract were to emerge elsewhere which has not been identified through this process, then we would take appropriate action.</del></p><p> </p><p><ins class="ministerial">The way 800 loyal and experienced workers were treated by P&amp;O Ferries was shameful and utterly unacceptable. We continue to hold them to account.</ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial"> </ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial">The Department for Transport has previously conducted a thorough review of ongoing government contracts with P&amp;O Ferries, and one ongoing contract between the Home Office and P&amp;O Ferries was terminated at our request. We cannot rule out the possibility of Departments procuring P&amp;O Ferries’ services through, for instance, internal commercial booking agents for official business on an ad-hoc basis.</ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial"> </ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial">If any publicly funded ongoing contract were to emerge which has not been identified through this process, then we would take appropriate action.</ins></p> answering member constituency Witney answering member printed Robert Courts question first answered 12/07/2022 11:53:18 question first ministerially corrected 15/07/2022 07:35:15 answering member 4589 label Biography information for Robert Courts previous answer version 12068 answering member constituency Witney answering member printed Robert Courts answering member 4589 label Biography information for Robert Courts
tabling member	3973 label Biography information for Grahame Morris

1486881

registered interest
date	06/07/2022
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Railways: Newcastle upon Tyne
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what estimate his Department has made of the number of people who regularly commute to work on trains to and from Newcastle station each year since 2010.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne Central
tabling member printed	Chi Onwurah
uin	31833
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/07/2022 answer text <p>The Department for Transport does not collect information on the number of people who regularly commute to work on trains to and from Newcastle station.</p> answering member constituency Aldridge-Brownhills answering member printed Wendy Morton question first answered 15/07/2022 09:49:49 answering member 4358 label Biography information for Wendy Morton
tabling member	4124 label Biography information for Chi Onwurah

1486886

registered interest
date	06/07/2022
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Shipping: Conditions of Employment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps he has taken to help strengthen seafarers’ employment rights following the actions of P&O Ferries on 17 March 2022.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Walton
tabling member printed	Dan Carden
uin	31915
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/07/2022 answer text <p>The government continues to promote and deliver its seafarer protections nine-point plan, and the wider objectives of Maritime 2050.</p><p>On 6 July, the government introduced the Seafarers’ Wages Bill to the House of Lords and published the Government’s Response to the Consultation on Seafarers’ Remuneration. The Bill seeks to ensure that seafarers working on vessels that regularly use UK ports are paid at least an equivalent rate to the UK National Minimum Wage, irrespective of flag or nationality.</p><p>This is in addition to other commitments in the nine-point plan, including BEIS’ forthcoming consultation on a “fire and rehire” statutory code, reform to longer-term working conditions for seafarers, and working with international partners to collaborate on seafarer protections and welfare.</p> answering member constituency Witney answering member printed Robert Courts question first answered 11/07/2022 10:57:57 answering member 4589 label Biography information for Robert Courts
tabling member	4651 label Biography information for Dan Carden

1486896

registered interest
date	06/07/2022
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, what recent assessment he has made of the effectiveness of financial incentives provided by the electric car grant before its withdrawal.
tabling member constituency	Chesterfield
tabling member printed	Mr Toby Perkins
uin	31813
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/07/2022 answer text <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 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.</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 EVs, 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> answering member constituency Copeland answering member printed Trudy Harrison question first answered 11/07/2022 08:36:08 answering member 4593 label Biography information for Trudy Harrison
tabling member	3952 label Biography information for Mr Toby Perkins

1486897

registered interest
date	06/07/2022
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Heaton Chapel Station: Access
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether his Department plans to help ensure step-free access at Heaton Chapel railway station.
tabling member constituency	Stockport
tabling member printed	Navendu Mishra
uin	31939
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/07/2022 answer text <p>I recently launched the next round of nominations for the Access for All (AfA) programme and welcome nominations for any station in Great Britain currently without step-free access.</p><p>In the meantime we are providing £1 million of funding to Transport for Greater Manchester (TfGM) for minor accessibility improvements and customer information systems through which Heaton Chapel station will benefit.</p> answering member constituency Aldridge-Brownhills answering member printed Wendy Morton question first answered 11/07/2022 08:25:48 answering member 4358 label Biography information for Wendy Morton
tabling member	4811 label Biography information for Navendu Mishra

1486898

registered interest
date	06/07/2022
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 cessation of the electrical vehicle grant, what additional steps his Department is taking to help encourage the public to purchase electric vehicles.
tabling member constituency	Chesterfield
tabling member printed	Mr Toby Perkins
uin	31814
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/07/2022 answer text <p>This Government has committed £2.5 billion since 2020 to support the transition to zero emission vehicles, with funding to offset their higher upfront cost, and to accelerate the rollout of chargepoint infrastructure.</p><p>Although Government has recently closed the plug-in car grant to new orders, Plug-in Grants will continue until at least financial year 2023/24 for taxis and motorcycles, and 2024/25 for vans, trucks and wheelchair accessible vehicles.</p><p>Plug-in Grants are just one way in which Government supports electric vehicle uptake. We have put in place favourable benefit in kind tax rates for zero emission vehicles out to 2025: company car tax was 1% in 2021/22 and 2% in 2022/23 through to 2024/25. Further, all zero emission cars are exempt from vehicle excise duty (VED) and zero emissions vans pay a nil rate of tax on the van benefit charge.</p><p>In addition, we announced in the Net Zero Strategy that we will introduce a zero-emission vehicle mandate, setting targets for a percentage of manufacturers' new car and van sales to be zero emission each year from 2024.</p><p>In March we published our ambitious electric vehicle infrastructure strategy, backed by £1.6 billion of funding, setting out our vision and commitments to make electric vehicle charging cheaper and more convenient than refueling at a petrol station, supporting drivers across the whole country to make the transition to a cleaner, greener vehicle.</p> answering member constituency Copeland answering member printed Trudy Harrison question first answered 11/07/2022 08:31:51 answering member 4593 label Biography information for Trudy Harrison
tabling member	3952 label Biography information for Mr Toby Perkins

1486914

registered interest
date	06/07/2022
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Department for Transport: Legal Costs
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how much their Department and its associated agencies spent on legal disputes in (a) 2020, (b) 2021 and (c) 2022.
tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
uin	31730
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/07/2022 answer text <p>DfT and it’s Executive Agencies have spent the below amounts on Litigation Costs in the last 3 calendar years. The 2022 figure covers up until 8<sup>th</sup> July 2022.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Calendar years</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>£</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2020</p></td><td><p>£5.1m</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2021</p></td><td><p>£3.8m</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2022 <em>(up until 8th July)</em></p></td><td><p>£1.9m</p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency Copeland answering member printed Trudy Harrison question first answered 13/07/2022 09:51:51 answering member 4593 label Biography information for Trudy Harrison
tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett

1486961

registered interest
date	06/07/2022
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Department for Transport: Electronic Purchasing Card Solution
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many people held electronic purchasing cards that allowed them to make purchases against his Department's budget as of 31 March 2022.
tabling member constituency	Islington South and Finsbury
tabling member printed	Emily Thornberry
uin	31796
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/07/2022 answer text <p>Up to March 31 2022, the Department had 294 active cardholders.</p> answering member constituency Copeland answering member printed Trudy Harrison question first answered 13/07/2022 09:48:23 answering member 4593 label Biography information for Trudy Harrison
tabling member	1536 label Biography information for Emily Thornberry

1486995

registered interest
date	06/07/2022
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Shipping: Conditions of Employment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to the dismissal of workers by P&O on 17 March 2022, whether he has taken steps to strengthen the employment rights of UK seafarers.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, West Derby
tabling member printed	Ian Byrne
uin	31942
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/07/2022 answer text <p>The government continues to promote and deliver its seafarer protections nine-point plan, and the wider objectives of Maritime 2050.</p><p>On 6 July, the government introduced the Seafarers’ Wages Bill to the House of Lords and published the Government’s Response to the Consultation on Seafarers’ Remuneration. The Bill seeks to ensure that seafarers working on vessels that regularly use UK ports are paid at least an equivalent rate to the UK National Minimum Wage, irrespective of flag or nationality.</p><p>This is in addition to other commitments in the nine-point plan, including BEIS’ forthcoming consultation on a “fire and rehire” statutory code, reform to longer-term working conditions for seafarers, and working with international partners to collaborate on seafarer protections and welfare.</p> answering member constituency Witney answering member printed Robert Courts question first answered 13/07/2022 07:43:27 answering member 4589 label Biography information for Robert Courts
tabling member	4831 label Biography information for Ian Byrne

1487014

registered interest
date	06/07/2022
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Driving Tests: Fees and Charges
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what estimate he has made of the potential merits of reducing the cost of driving tests for people in receipt of benefits.
tabling member constituency	Manchester, Gorton
tabling member printed	Afzal Khan
uin	31920
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/07/2022 answer text <p>Driving test fees are set in legislation and cannot be reduced within existing provisions.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Lincoln answering member printed Karl McCartney question first answered 19/07/2022 12:05:57 answering member 4028 label Biography information for Karl McCartney
tabling member	4671 label Biography information for Afzal Khan