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1605109

registered interest
date	17/03/2023
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Driving Tests: Dunfermline and Kirkcaldy
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many driving test examiner posts are vacant in (a) Dunfermline and (b) Kirkcaldy; how many applications the DVSA received for advertised driving test examiner vacancies in each of those areas in each of the last 12 months; and ( how many vacancies were successfully filled in each of those areas in each of those months.
tabling member constituency	Dunfermline and West Fife
tabling member printed	Douglas Chapman
uin	168056
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/03/2023 answer text <p>Driving examiners (DE), based at Kirkcaldy driving test centre (DTC), are deployed between Dunfermline DTC and Kirkcaldy DTC to service demand.</p><p> </p><p>There are test slots available to book at Dunfermline and Kirkcaldy within the booking window. There is sufficient resource to service demand at both test centres; therefore, there are no DE vacancies.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency North West Durham answering member printed Mr Richard Holden question first answered 23/03/2023 12:06:29 answering member 4813 label Biography information for Mr Richard Holden
tabling member	4402 label Biography information for Douglas Chapman

1605129

registered interest
date	17/03/2023
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Road Traffic Control
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether his Department has published recent guidance for local authorities on the publication of traffic management orders when introducing speed restrictions on roads.
tabling member constituency	Hendon
tabling member printed	Dr Matthew Offord
uin	168038
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/03/2023 answer text <p>The Department for Transport’s guidance Setting Local Speed Limits instructs that The Local Authorities’ Traffic Orders (Procedure) (England and Wales) Regulations 1996 (as amended) sets out the procedure to be followed when making speed limit orders and other traffic regulation orders. Traffic Authorities will need to comply with the consultation and publicity requirements before making an order, and with the publicity and traffic signing requirements once an order has been made.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency North West Durham answering member printed Mr Richard Holden question first answered 24/03/2023 11:20:32 answering member 4813 label Biography information for Mr Richard Holden
tabling member	4006 label Biography information for Dr Matthew Offord

1605148

registered interest
date	17/03/2023
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Travel: Disability
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 with Cabinet colleagues to help ensure that people with disabilities are able to access modes of active travel which aid (a) mobility and (b) independence.
tabling member constituency	York Central
tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
uin	168074
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/03/2023 answer text <p>The second Cycling and Walking Investment Strategy sets out both a vision and specific objectives to increase levels of walking, wheeling and cycling. The Government is providing around £3 billion of funding for active travel over the current Parliament, as well as guidance for local transport authorities to support the creation of accessible infrastructure. The guidance and funding prioritise road safety and personal safety concerns, particularly for those with protected characteristics, including people with disabilities.</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman grouped question UIN 168075 question first answered 27/03/2023 09:13:08 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell

1605153

registered interest
date	17/03/2023
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Wheeling
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 to help promote wheeling for people with disabilities.
tabling member constituency	York Central
tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
uin	168075
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/03/2023 answer text <p>The second Cycling and Walking Investment Strategy sets out both a vision and specific objectives to increase levels of walking, wheeling and cycling. The Government is providing around £3 billion of funding for active travel over the current Parliament, as well as guidance for local transport authorities to support the creation of accessible infrastructure. The guidance and funding prioritise road safety and personal safety concerns, particularly for those with protected characteristics, including people with disabilities.</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman grouped question UIN 168074 question first answered 27/03/2023 09:13:08 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell

1605155

registered interest
date	17/03/2023
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Travel: Disability
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 to ensure that disabled people can benefit from advances in technology that improve their ability to travel.
tabling member constituency	York Central
tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
uin	168076
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/03/2023 answer text <p>The 2018 Inclusive Transport Strategy set out the ambition for equal access for disabled people using the transport system by 2030, with assistance if physical infrastructure remains a barrier. The Strategy explained how technology can contribute to this.</p><p>My Department continues to work towards this ambition. This has included work on:</p><ul><li>Mobility as a Service - technology to simplify and tailor journey planning for users, making travel more integrated, safer, and comfortable.</li><li>Collaborating with the Connected Places Catapult to understand how we can drive accessibility in micro-mobility, looking at emerging modes of transport and asking how we can influence the market to make them as accessible as possible.</li><li>Supporting the Rail Delivery Group to launch the rail passenger assistance app in May 2021, which allows passengers to request assistance and review journeys using a smartphone.</li><li>Technology Research and Innovation Grants, for which the assessment criteria includes assessing their potential to improve accessibility, and includes a specific accessibility grant funding competition to facilitate products and services to improve the ability for disabled people to travel.</li></ul><p> </p> answering member constituency North West Durham answering member printed Mr Richard Holden question first answered 23/03/2023 12:08:34 answering member 4813 label Biography information for Mr Richard Holden
tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell

1605166

registered interest
date	17/03/2023
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Blue Badge Scheme: Spain
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 his counterpart in Spain on reciprocity for the acceptance of Blue Badges between the UK and Spain.
tabling member constituency	Wakefield
tabling member printed	Simon Lightwood
uin	168112
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/03/2023 answer text <p>The recognition of disabled parking cards issued outside of Spain is at the discretion of the Spanish local parking authority and advice to travellers is that they should check locally before parking.</p> answering member constituency North West Durham answering member printed Mr Richard Holden question first answered 22/03/2023 13:37:51 answering member 4813 label Biography information for Mr Richard Holden
tabling member	4943 label Biography information for Simon Lightwood

1605172

registered interest
date	17/03/2023
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Aviation: Carbon Emissions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if the Government will make an assessment of the potential merits of using public service obligation air routes to introduce zero emissions regional flights in the UK.
tabling member constituency	South West Bedfordshire
tabling member printed	Andrew Selous
uin	168029
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/03/2023 answer text <p>The Government published the Jet Zero Strategy in 2022 which sets out it’s approach to achieving net zero aviation by 2050. The Strategy considers the potential for zero emission flight alongside other measures. This includes exploring the feasibility of using zero emission aircraft on existing UK government funded PSO routes, as well as noting the balance between reducing aviation emissions and ensuring value for money on routes supported by public funding.</p><p> </p><p>As part of the Jet Zero Council, the Department has established a dedicated Delivery Group to convene activity across Government, industry and academia on the development of zero emission flight.</p><p> </p><p>The Government is also investing £685 million between 2022 and 2035 through the Aerospace Technology Institute (ATI) Programme to co-fund, with industry, the development of zero-carbon and ultra-efficient aircraft technology. A recent example, announced at the seventh meeting of the Jet Zero Council in February, was £113 million of joint government and industry investment in R&amp;D projects to develop liquid hydrogen combusting jet engines and high-end lightweight batteries for small aircraft.</p><p> </p><p>ATI funding is also supporting the current flight testing by ZeroAvia of a 19- seater aircraft using hydrogen propulsion. If successfully brought to market such aircraft could provide zero emission flight on regional and sub-regional routes.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman grouped question UIN 168030 question first answered 23/03/2023 16:17:28 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	1453 label Biography information for Andrew Selous

1605173

registered interest
date	17/03/2023
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Aviation: Carbon Emissions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether he plans to take steps with Cabinet colleagues to incentivise the manufacture of new zero emissions aircraft in the UK for use on (a) regional and (b) sub-regional routes.
tabling member constituency	South West Bedfordshire
tabling member printed	Andrew Selous
uin	168030
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/03/2023 answer text <p>The Government published the Jet Zero Strategy in 2022 which sets out it’s approach to achieving net zero aviation by 2050. The Strategy considers the potential for zero emission flight alongside other measures. This includes exploring the feasibility of using zero emission aircraft on existing UK government funded PSO routes, as well as noting the balance between reducing aviation emissions and ensuring value for money on routes supported by public funding.</p><p> </p><p>As part of the Jet Zero Council, the Department has established a dedicated Delivery Group to convene activity across Government, industry and academia on the development of zero emission flight.</p><p> </p><p>The Government is also investing £685 million between 2022 and 2035 through the Aerospace Technology Institute (ATI) Programme to co-fund, with industry, the development of zero-carbon and ultra-efficient aircraft technology. A recent example, announced at the seventh meeting of the Jet Zero Council in February, was £113 million of joint government and industry investment in R&amp;D projects to develop liquid hydrogen combusting jet engines and high-end lightweight batteries for small aircraft.</p><p> </p><p>ATI funding is also supporting the current flight testing by ZeroAvia of a 19- seater aircraft using hydrogen propulsion. If successfully brought to market such aircraft could provide zero emission flight on regional and sub-regional routes.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman grouped question UIN 168029 question first answered 23/03/2023 16:17:28 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	1453 label Biography information for Andrew Selous

1605223

registered interest
date	17/03/2023
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Transport: Innovation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether his Department has made an estimate of the timescale needed for implementation of recommendation 4 of Sir Patrick Vallance’s Pro-innovation Regulation of Technologies Review: Digital Technologies.
tabling member constituency	Weaver Vale
tabling member printed	Mike Amesbury
uin	168095
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/03/2023 answer text <p>The Government Response to Sir Patrick Vallance’s Report outlined that it is committed to bringing forward and implementing legislation on the future of transport when parliamentary time allows.</p><p>The Government has set out in its Connected &amp; Automated Mobility 2025 paper that it plans to put in place a legal framework enabling the deployment and operation of self-driving vehicles by 2025.</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 27/03/2023 09:30:33 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	4667 label Biography information for Mike Amesbury

1605227

registered interest
date	17/03/2023
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Roads: Repairs and Maintenance
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 to help ensure that the extra funding announced in the Budget for expenditure on potholes is spent on road maintenance.
tabling member constituency	Christchurch
tabling member printed	Sir Christopher Chope
uin	167996
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/03/2023 answer text <p>The additional highways maintenance funding announced in the 2023 Budget will be paid to local highways authorities in line with the Government’s broader approach to local government section 31 grant funding, which means that the funding will not be ring-fenced. However, the Department is allocating this funding to local highways authorities with the strong expectation that they spend it on maintaining and improving their respective networks based upon their local knowledge, circumstances, and priorities.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency North West Durham answering member printed Mr Richard Holden question first answered 22/03/2023 10:46:34 answering member 4813 label Biography information for Mr Richard Holden
tabling member	242 label Biography information for Sir Christopher Chope