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1599412

registered interest
date	27/02/2023
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Electric Vehicles: Charging Points
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what recent steps he has taken to improve access for (a) disabled and (b) all users of electric vehicle charging points.
tabling member constituency	Newport West
tabling member printed	Ruth Jones
uin	153980
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/03/2023 answer text <p>As the transition to electric vehicles (EV) accelerates, it is important that public chargepoints are easily accessible to all those who need to use them, including disabled and elderly people. Working alongside the disability charity, Motability, the Government commissioned the British Standards Institution (BSI) to produce a new accessibility standard.</p><p> </p><p>A world first of its kind, the Publicly Available Standard (PAS) 1899 was published on 11 October 2022, and lays out best practice on designing and installing accessible public EV chargepoints.</p><p> </p><p>Compliance with PAS 1899 is voluntary. However, the Government is actively encouraging relevant parties to adopt its specifications, building on improvements already being made in the sector. Several local authorities receiving Local EV Infrastructure Pilot funding are already considering PAS 1899 and accessibility in their plans for chargepoint rollout.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 07/03/2023 14:05:05 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	4716 label Biography information for Ruth Jones

1581808

registered interest
date	30/01/2023
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Flybe: Insolvency
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether he has had recent discussions with the Civil Aviation Authority on Flybe being placed in administration.
tabling member constituency	Newport West
tabling member printed	Ruth Jones
uin	135407
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/02/2023 answer text <p>The Department speaks to the Civil Aviation Authority regularly and have spoken to them multiple times over the last few days as they respond to the situation and provide advice to passengers to help them make their journeys as smoothly and affordably as possible. Whilst this is a commercial decision for the company, it is a challenging time for staff, and it is welcome news that airlines are keen to take on many of their staff.</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 07/02/2023 12:41:32 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	4716 label Biography information for Ruth Jones

1581810

registered interest
date	30/01/2023
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Flybe: Insolvency
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether he has had recent discussions with the Chief Executive of Belfast City Airport on taking steps to support employees at the airport who are affected by Flybe being placed in administration.
tabling member constituency	Newport West
tabling member printed	Ruth Jones
uin	135409
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/02/2023 answer text <p>In the early hours of the morning of Saturday 28 January, Flybe Limited ceased trading. This was a commercial decision by the board of the company. The Government recognises that this will be a difficult time for Flybe’s passengers and staff. The immediate priority has been to support people travelling home and employees who have lost their jobs.</p><p> </p><p>Aviation is a devolved matter. However, officials at the Department for Transport have contacted Belfast City Airport to discuss the impacts of the announcement and have also been in contact with the Northern Ireland Department for Communities (DfC), as they are responsible for jobseeker support and related services in Northern Ireland.</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 07/02/2023 12:27:35 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	4716 label Biography information for Ruth Jones

1581811

registered interest
date	30/01/2023
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Flybe: Insolvency
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether discussions he has had with the Welsh Government on Flybe being placed in administration.
tabling member constituency	Newport West
tabling member printed	Ruth Jones
uin	135410
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/02/2023 answer text <p>In the early hours of the morning of Saturday 28 January, Flybe Limited ceased trading. This was a commercial decision by the board of the company.</p><p>The Government recognises that this will be a difficult time for Flybe’s passengers and staff. The immediate priority has been to support people travelling home and employees who have lost their jobs.</p><p>Aviation is broadly a devolved matter, although officials at the Department for Transport engage regularly with the Welsh Government on aviation policy. No discussions have taken place between the Department for Transport and the Welsh Government in the immediate aftermath of the collapse of Flybe, as the airline did not operate scheduled services in Wales.</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 07/02/2023 12:44:56 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	4716 label Biography information for Ruth Jones

1521339

registered interest
date	12/10/2022
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Large Goods Vehicle Drivers: Wales
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether she has had recent discussions with the Welsh Government on making an estimate of the number of newly qualified HGV drivers in Wales in each of the last three years.
tabling member constituency	Newport West
tabling member printed	Ruth Jones
uin	62100
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/10/2022 answer text <p>The number of drivers with an address in Wales who have passed an HGV driving test in the last 3 years are 1,672 in 2020, 2,666 in 2021 and 3,046 in 2022 to date.</p><p>However, this data may include instances of the same driver passing both the Category C and CE tests. In addition, some of the drivers with HGV driving licence entitlement may be employed in other occupations such as the Armed Forces or Fire Service.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 18/10/2022 14:25:32 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
tabling member	4716 label Biography information for Ruth Jones

1521340

registered interest
date	12/10/2022
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Large Goods Vehicle Drivers: Recruitment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what recent steps she has taken to increase the number of qualified HGV drivers in the UK.
tabling member constituency	Newport West
tabling member printed	Ruth Jones
uin	62101
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/10/2022 answer text <p>The Government has taken decisive action to address the HGV driver shortage putting in place 33 short, medium and long-term interventions to date to help alleviate the existing HGV driver shortages. The Department for Transport has also provided grant funding for the non-profit initiative Road to Logistics to train military service leavers, ex-offenders and the long term unemployed to move into jobs in the logistics sector, including lorry driving.</p><p>To meet demand, the Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency has increased the supply of driving tests. The average number of vocational test slots is now around 2,800 per week compared to a pre-pandemic 1,500 tests. Despite the increase in demand for licences, the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency is processing all vocational applications within the normal turnaround time of 5 working days.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 18/10/2022 14:27:19 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
tabling member	4716 label Biography information for Ruth Jones

1504303

registered interest
date	02/09/2022
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Heathrow Airport
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether he has had recent discussions with Cabinet colleagues on the route network operated at Heathrow Airport.
tabling member constituency	Newport West
tabling member printed	Ruth Jones
uin	46066
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/09/2022 answer text <p>The UK aviation market operates predominately in the private sector. Airports invest in their infrastructure to attract passengers and airlines, while airlines are well placed to deliver services to their customers by responding to demand for different routes. The route network at Heathrow is determined by airlines based on their own assessments.</p> answering member constituency Witney answering member printed Robert Courts question first answered 06/09/2022 16:15:31 answering member 4589 label Biography information for Robert Courts
tabling member	4716 label Biography information for Ruth Jones

1504342

registered interest
date	02/09/2022
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Department for Transport: Termination of Employment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many members of staff have left his Department since 12 December 2019.
tabling member constituency	Newport West
tabling member printed	Ruth Jones
uin	46105
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/09/2022 answer text <p>Since December 2019, the number of staff who have left the central Department for Transport is 1,063.</p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster question first answered 13/09/2022 16:16:11 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
tabling member	4716 label Biography information for Ruth Jones

1487893

registered interest
date	11/07/2022
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	EasyJet
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what most recent discussions he has had with the management of EasyJet.
tabling member constituency	Newport West
tabling member printed	Ruth Jones
uin	33918
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/07/2022 answer text <p>I chair the weekly Strategic Risk Group, as the Minister for Aviation, which brings together senior executives from across the aviation sector. easyJet have been a central part of this group and were also invited to the meeting held by the Aviation Minister and the Secretary of State on 1 June. On 12 July I visited easyJets data centre at Luton Airport.</p><p>As part of regular engagements over the summer DfT senior officials have been meeting weekly with easyJet management.</p> answering member constituency Witney answering member printed Robert Courts question first answered 18/07/2022 14:42:55 answering member 4589 label Biography information for Robert Courts
tabling member	4716 label Biography information for Ruth Jones

1486028

registered interest
date	04/07/2022
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Aviation: Costs
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 trends in the cost of air travel.
tabling member constituency	Newport West
tabling member printed	Ruth Jones
uin	30146
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/07/2022 answer text <p>More than in any other country, UK aviation operates in the private sector and in a competitive environment. The aviation market is regulated by the CAA to ensure that practices and policies of airlines comply with UK consumer legislation.</p><p>The Department assesses the possible long term trends in the cost of air travel as part of the process of generating long-term passenger demand forecasts. The most recent assessment of the long term trends in the cost of air travel was conducted as part of the analysis to support the Jet Zero Strategy further technical consultation, published in March 2022.</p> answering member constituency Witney answering member printed Robert Courts question first answered 12/07/2022 11:55:29 answering member 4589 label Biography information for Robert Courts
tabling member	4716 label Biography information for Ruth Jones