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1684347

registered interest
date	23/01/2024
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Motor Insurance: Fees and Charges
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 implications for his policies of trends in car insurance prices in the last 12 months.
tabling member constituency	Kilmarnock and Loudoun
tabling member printed	Alan Brown
uin	11144
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/01/2024 answer text <p>The Department for Transport officials regularly liaise with representatives of the motor insurance industry on a variety of issues such as the cost of insurance and trends in the market.</p><p>It is the responsibility of individual motor insurers to set their premiums and the terms and conditions of their policies, and the Government does not intervene or seek to control the market.</p><p>The Government is determined that insurers should treat customers fairly and firms are required to do so under the Financial Conduct Authority rules.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman grouped question UIN 11145 11146 11147 question first answered 30/01/2024 17:03:28 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
tabling member	4470 label Biography information for Alan Brown

1684348

registered interest
date	23/01/2024
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Motor Insurance: Fees and Charges
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether he has had discussions with car insurance providers on the potential impact of insurance premiums on the number of new drivers on the roads.
tabling member constituency	Kilmarnock and Loudoun
tabling member printed	Alan Brown
uin	11145
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/01/2024 answer text <p>The Department for Transport officials regularly liaise with representatives of the motor insurance industry on a variety of issues such as the cost of insurance and trends in the market.</p><p>It is the responsibility of individual motor insurers to set their premiums and the terms and conditions of their policies, and the Government does not intervene or seek to control the market.</p><p>The Government is determined that insurers should treat customers fairly and firms are required to do so under the Financial Conduct Authority rules.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman grouped question UIN 11144 11146 11147 question first answered 30/01/2024 17:03:28 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
tabling member	4470 label Biography information for Alan Brown

1684349

registered interest
date	23/01/2024
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Motor Insurance: Young People
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 on the potential impact of increased insurance premiums for young drivers on (a) affordability and (b) the increased risk of uninsured drivers.
tabling member constituency	Kilmarnock and Loudoun
tabling member printed	Alan Brown
uin	11146
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/01/2024 answer text <p>The Department for Transport officials regularly liaise with representatives of the motor insurance industry on a variety of issues such as the cost of insurance and trends in the market.</p><p>It is the responsibility of individual motor insurers to set their premiums and the terms and conditions of their policies, and the Government does not intervene or seek to control the market.</p><p>The Government is determined that insurers should treat customers fairly and firms are required to do so under the Financial Conduct Authority rules.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman grouped question UIN 11144 11145 11147 question first answered 30/01/2024 17:03:28 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
tabling member	4470 label Biography information for Alan Brown

1684350

registered interest
date	23/01/2024
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Motor Insurance: Young People
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 potential implications for his policies of reports that insurance premiums for 17 to 20-year-olds have risen by more than £1,000 since last year.
tabling member constituency	Kilmarnock and Loudoun
tabling member printed	Alan Brown
uin	11147
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/01/2024 answer text <p>The Department for Transport officials regularly liaise with representatives of the motor insurance industry on a variety of issues such as the cost of insurance and trends in the market.</p><p>It is the responsibility of individual motor insurers to set their premiums and the terms and conditions of their policies, and the Government does not intervene or seek to control the market.</p><p>The Government is determined that insurers should treat customers fairly and firms are required to do so under the Financial Conduct Authority rules.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman grouped question UIN 11144 11145 11146 question first answered 30/01/2024 17:03:28 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
tabling member	4470 label Biography information for Alan Brown

1683334

registered interest
date	18/01/2024
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Train Operating Companies: Subsidies
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how much his Department provided in operating subsidies to each train operating company in each year since 2010.
tabling member constituency	Kilmarnock and Loudoun
tabling member printed	Alan Brown
uin	10478
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/01/2024 answer text <p>The Office of Rail and Road publish data on franchise payments made to, or received from, operators on their Rail Industry Finance data portal. The portal can be accessed on their website. The tables which answer the question are:</p><p> </p><ul><li>Table 7273: Government subsidy by franchised passenger operator (up to 2018-19)</li><li>Table 7226: Franchised Passenger Train Operator Finances since 2015-16 by Franchise</li></ul> answering member constituency Bexhill and Battle answering member printed Huw Merriman question first answered 25/01/2024 13:49:37 answering member 4442 label Biography information for Huw Merriman
tabling member	4470 label Biography information for Alan Brown

1666875

registered interest
date	24/10/2023
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Great Western Railway: Electrification
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what the initial cost estimate for the Great Western Rail Electrification Project was; and what was the (a) final cost and (b) total length of (i) rail electrified and (ii) rail left unelectrified (A) between Cardiff and Swansea, (B) on the Bath Spur and (C) on the Bristol Temple Meads Spur when removed from project scope.
tabling member constituency	Kilmarnock and Loudoun
tabling member printed	Alan Brown
uin	204042
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/10/2023 answer text <p>The 2013 cost estimate for the electrification of the 121 miles of the Great Western Main Line between Heathrow Airport Junction and Cardiff was £1.7 billion. The work was completed in 2020 at a cost of £2.8 billion. The scope of the Great Western Electrification Programme was reduced in 2015 with the removal of the 45 miles between Cardiff and Swansea, the 30 miles between Chippenham and Bristol Temple Meads via Bath, and the five miles between Bristol Parkway and Bristol Temple Meads.</p> answering member constituency Bexhill and Battle answering member printed Huw Merriman question first answered 26/10/2023 09:09:22 answering member 4442 label Biography information for Huw Merriman
tabling member	4470 label Biography information for Alan Brown

1624612

registered interest
date	28/04/2023
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Driverless Vehicles
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what discussions his Department has had with Tesla on its timescales for developing its autopilot software from beta to full self-driving.
tabling member constituency	Kilmarnock and Loudoun
tabling member printed	Alan Brown
uin	183222
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/05/2023 answer text <p>Only vehicles listed under the Automated and Electric Vehicles Act 2018 are considered to be capable of safely driving themselves under certain circumstances, and are therefore able to be legally used without supervision on roads in Great Britain. There are currently no such vehicles listed.</p><p> </p><p>Tesla’s Autopilot software is considered to fall under the category of being an advanced driver assistance system (ADAS), as it is not able to drive itself without any monitoring by an individual. The Department has not had any specific discussions with Tesla about their systems being considered for listing as self-driving.</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 09/05/2023 13:03:22 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	4470 label Biography information for Alan Brown

1624613

registered interest
date	28/04/2023
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Driverless Vehicles
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, on what legal basis Tesla Autopilot is able to operate on roads in the UK.
tabling member constituency	Kilmarnock and Loudoun
tabling member printed	Alan Brown
uin	183223
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/05/2023 answer text <p>In general, a vehicle must have been type-approved to be registered for use on roads in the UK when new. This is the process whereby a vehicle and its systems are confirmed as meeting the minimum regulatory requirements. Tesla’s Autopilot is a collection of driver assistance features which are covered by individual systems approvals for steering and brakes, the requirements for which have been developed at an international level under the UN’s World Forum for Harmonisation of Vehicle Regulations (WP.29). The issuing of these system approvals was not undertaken by the UK but they are mutually recognised under international obligations. The certificates for the system approvals formed part of the documentation that allowed the Vehicle Certification Agency to issue provisional GB type-approval certificates for Tesla vehicles, which enables them to be registered.</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 10/05/2023 09:08:30 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	4470 label Biography information for Alan Brown

1624509

registered interest
date	27/04/2023
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Driverless Vehicles
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 approval process for licensing the use of Tesla Autopilot software.
tabling member constituency	Kilmarnock and Loudoun
tabling member printed	Alan Brown
uin	183126
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/05/2023 answer text <p>Tesla vehicles are approved currently under a GB provisional Type Approval issued by the Vehicle Certification Agency (VCA). To obtain a Provisional GB type approval, manufacturers must provide VCA with a copy of the current and valid EU type approval certificates for the vehicle type that they wish to place on the market. Details of the provisional approval scheme can be found of the VCA website: <a href="https://www.vehicle-certification-agency.gov.uk/vehicle-type-approval/provisional-gb-type-approval-scheme/" target="_blank">https://www.vehicle-certification-agency.gov.uk/vehicle-type-approval/provisional-gb-type-approval-scheme/</a></p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency North West Durham answering member printed Mr Richard Holden question first answered 03/05/2023 08:34:09 answering member 4813 label Biography information for Mr Richard Holden
tabling member	4470 label Biography information for Alan Brown

1624511

registered interest
date	27/04/2023
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Driverless Vehicles
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 implications for his Department’s policies of reports of phantom braking by Tesla vehicles when operated in autopilot mode.
tabling member constituency	Kilmarnock and Loudoun
tabling member printed	Alan Brown
uin	183127
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/05/2023 answer text <p>The Department has not identified any issues of phantom braking affecting the UK specification of Tesla vehicles when operating with their Autopilot feature. Therefore, the Department’s polices with respect to such technology remain unchanged.</p> answering member constituency North West Durham answering member printed Mr Richard Holden question first answered 09/05/2023 09:58:43 answering member 4813 label Biography information for Mr Richard Holden
tabling member	4470 label Biography information for Alan Brown