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1680769

registered interest
date	09/01/2024
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Railways: Horden and Seaham
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps is he taking to improve rail services at (a) Horden and (b) Seaham.
tabling member constituency	Easington
tabling member printed	Grahame Morris
uin	8726
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/01/2024 answer text <p>The Department, through the Rail North Partnership, will continue to work with train operators and stakeholders to assess potential improvements to train services to Horden and Seaham. Any additional services must take into account network constraints on the Durham Coast Line and be justified by passenger demand, as well as affordable within operators’ existing business plans and budgets.</p> answering member constituency Bexhill and Battle answering member printed Huw Merriman question first answered 15/01/2024 14:21:01 answering member 4442 label Biography information for Huw Merriman
tabling member	3973 label Biography information for Grahame Morris

1680781

registered interest
date	09/01/2024
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Wokingham Borough Council: Grants
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what grants were provided by his Department to Wokingham Borough Council in the (a) 2022-23 and (b) 2023-24 financial year; and how much was awarded in each grant.
tabling member constituency	Wokingham
tabling member printed	John Redwood
uin	8642
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/01/2024 answer text <p>Wokingham Borough Council have received the following grants from the Department for Transport:</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Grant</p></td><td><p>FY 2022-23</p></td><td><p>FY 2023-24 to date</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Bus Recovery Grant – Local Transport Fund</p></td><td><p>£225,225.24</p></td><td><p>£131,792.39</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Enhanced Bus Partnership Capacity (Revenue) Grant 2022/23</p></td><td><p>£171,000.00</p></td><td><p>-</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Bus Service Improvement Plan</p></td><td><p>£200,661.00</p></td><td><p>£200,661.00</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Bus Service Operators Grant Local Authorities</p></td><td><p>£111,461.00</p></td><td><p>£111,461.00</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Local Authorities Capability Fund</p></td><td><p>£127,359.00</p></td><td><p>£63,680.00</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Local Authorities Infrastructure Fund</p></td><td><p>£578,805.00</p></td><td><p>£27,410.00</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>On-street Residential Charge Point Scheme</p></td><td><p>£130,125.00</p></td><td><p>-</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Local Electric Vehicle Infrastructure (LEVI) Capability Fund</p></td><td><p>£50,670</p></td><td><p>£115,620</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Budget 2023 Maintenance Funding</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>£589,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Maintenance funding uplift from HS2 Euston savings</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>£418,000</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>Wokingham Borough Council was also allocated for 2022 to 2025 (3 years) the following grant awards: Pothole Fund £1.473m, Highways Maintenance Block £1.841m and Integrated Transport Block £0.740m.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency South Cambridgeshire answering member printed Anthony Browne question first answered 16/01/2024 16:51:49 answering member 4801 label Biography information for Anthony Browne
tabling member	14 label Biography information for Sir John Redwood

1680305

registered interest
date	08/01/2024
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Bicycles: Manufacturing Industries
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether he is taking steps with Cabinet colleagues to help support businesses that manufacture (a) cycle and (b) e-cycles.
tabling member constituency	York Central
tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
uin	8479
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/01/2024 answer text <p>The Government is committed to supporting UK businesses that manufacture, retail and service cycles and e-cycles. This support takes many forms including unprecedented investment in safe cycling infrastructure which enables more people to cycle safely; and initiatives such as the Cycle to Work scheme which allows many people to access cycles more cheaply. These and other measures help increase the demand for new cycles and e-cycles, and for the servicing of existing cycles and e-cycles.</p> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman question first answered 11/01/2024 13:53:26 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell

1680313

registered interest
date	08/01/2024
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Cycling: Women
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 encourage more women to cycle.
tabling member constituency	Cambridge
tabling member printed	Daniel Zeichner
uin	8443
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/01/2024 answer text <p>Active Travel England (ATE) provides £2 million per year to the Big Bike Revival project, which focuses cycling activities on underrepresented groups, such as women. In 2022/23, 59% of participants in Big Bike Revival were female.</p><p> </p><p>ATE also provides funding to local authorities to enable women and other underrepresented groups to increase levels of cycling through the Capability Fund. Design guidance for new infrastructure, such as that funded through the Active Travel Fund, requires that new schemes are accessible to all users, including women. Bids must demonstrate that the safety and confidence of women had been factored into the design of active travel schemes.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman question first answered 16/01/2024 16:54:14 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
tabling member	4382 label Biography information for Daniel Zeichner

1680314

registered interest
date	08/01/2024
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Cycling
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps his Department is taking to support people not eligible for a Cycle to Work Scheme to take up cycling.
tabling member constituency	Cambridge
tabling member printed	Daniel Zeichner
uin	8444
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/01/2024 answer text <p>Active Travel England provides funding to local authorities and a range of national charities to increase levels of cycling. This includes £33 million provided in 2022/23 under the Capability Fund that can be used for local cycle loan and share schemes, e-cycle initiatives and cycling outreach programmes directed towards underrepresented groups. In addition, the Government has been trialling an £8 million national e-cycle programme to provide opportunities to try e-cycles through short term loans in a small number of locations.</p><p /> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman question first answered 16/01/2024 10:00:53 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
tabling member	4382 label Biography information for Daniel Zeichner

1680317

registered interest
date	08/01/2024
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	East Coast Main Line: Peterborough
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many and what proportion of direct trains from Peterborough to London Kings Cross have been cancelled in the last six months.
tabling member constituency	South Holland and The Deepings
tabling member printed	Sir John Hayes
uin	8299
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/01/2024 answer text <p>London North Eastern Railway cancelled a total of 1,501 services between Peterborough and London between 23 July 2023 and 6 January 2024. This equates to 6.1 per cent of their services between these stations. In the past six months Govia Thameslink Railway had 1,673 direct services scheduled to run from Peterborough to King’s Cross, 126 (7.5 per cent) of them were cancelled. A significant proportion of cancellations were due to flooding from named storms and infrastructure failures.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Bexhill and Battle answering member printed Huw Merriman question first answered 15/01/2024 14:42:31 answering member 4442 label Biography information for Huw Merriman
tabling member	350 label Biography information for Sir John Hayes

1680329

registered interest
date	08/01/2024
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Sanctions: Russia
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many UK-flagged vessels have been prosecuted for the transportation of Russian oil in the last two years.
tabling member constituency	East Londonderry
tabling member printed	Mr Gregory Campbell
uin	8342
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/01/2024 answer text <p>None.</p> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman question first answered 11/01/2024 10:01:03 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
tabling member	1409 label Biography information for Mr Gregory Campbell

1680330

registered interest
date	08/01/2024
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Road Traffic: Noise
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what was the outcome of the noise-detecting traffic camera trials.
tabling member constituency	East Londonderry
tabling member printed	Mr Gregory Campbell
uin	8343
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/01/2024 answer text <p>Roadside trials of noise camera technology commenced on 18 October 2022 and finished on 1 February 2023. As set out in the Government’s recent Plan for Drivers, the Department intends to publish the findings of the trial in due course and issue guidance to local authorities setting out minimum requirements and best practice for the use of noise cameras.</p> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman question first answered 11/01/2024 08:56:37 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
tabling member	1409 label Biography information for Mr Gregory Campbell

1680331

registered interest
date	08/01/2024
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Blue Badge Scheme
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many Blue Badges were issued in (a) England, (b) Scotland, (c) Wales, and (d) Northern Ireland in (i) 2020, (ii) 2021, (iii) 2022 and (iv) 2023.
tabling member constituency	East Londonderry
tabling member printed	Mr Gregory Campbell
uin	8344
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/01/2024 answer text <p>The Blue Badge schemes in England, Scotland and Wales are devolved with each country running its own Blue Badge scheme and collecting/publishing its own statistics. The Department for Transport publishes annual statistics in relation to the Blue Badge scheme in England only.</p><p> </p><p>The total number of Blue Badges issued in England are:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Year ending March 2020</p></td><td><p>966,002</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Year ending March 2021</p></td><td><p>824,239</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Year ending March 2022</p></td><td><p>1,036,054</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>Statistics for 2023 will be published in January 2024.</p> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman question first answered 11/01/2024 14:13:57 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
tabling member	1409 label Biography information for Mr Gregory Campbell

1680336

registered interest
date	08/01/2024
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Motor Vehicles: Manufacturing Industries
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 assessment of the implications for her policies on fining UK car manufacturers who sell too many petrol and diesel cars of levels of demand for battery vehicles.
tabling member constituency	Wokingham
tabling member printed	John Redwood
uin	8286
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/01/2024 answer text <p>The Department for Transport consulted extensively with vehicle manufacturers and as a result, the zero emission vehicle targets are ambitious but achievable.</p><p>The mandate will help cut the cost of zero emission vehicle cars by giving manufacturers the certainty they need to transition production. In doing so, this will help more and more people save money on their motoring with the cheaper driving they provide, whilst reducing our reliance on imported oil and helping to deliver our ambitious emission reduction targets.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency South Cambridgeshire answering member printed Anthony Browne question first answered 15/01/2024 14:47:55 answering member 4801 label Biography information for Anthony Browne
tabling member	14 label Biography information for Sir John Redwood