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46610

	registered interest
	date	02/04/2014
	answering body	Department for Transport
	answering dept id	27
	answering dept short name	Transport
	answering dept sort name	Transport
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what progress has been made by the cross-government working group on remotely piloted aircraft systems.
	tabling member constituency	West Bromwich East
	tabling member printed	Mr Tom Watson
	uin	194957
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/04/2014 answer text <p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Cross Government Working Group has been discussing its draft Terms of Reference (extract copied below) and its membership. The focus of its work so far has been to gather information from the relevant departments to identify areas of common interest requiring collaboration.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><strong>RPAS Cross Government Working Group Vision and Activities</strong><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p><p><strong><em>Vision</em></strong> : To provide a consistent government message on RPAS issues.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p><strong><em>Objectives</em></strong>:</p><p> </p><ul><li>Inform RPAS-related Departmental policies and publish a UK Cross Government vision / strategy for UAS.</li><li>To identify Cross Government synergies and opportunities for efficiencies.</li><li>To identify and address barriers to a successful UK industry base, to support the Government's growth agenda.</li></ul><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><strong>Approach</strong><p> </p><ul><li>Focus for the co-ordination of all UK Government RPAS related activities.</li><li>Developing a better knowledge and a shared understanding of Departmental priorities, activities, ambitions &amp; concerns.</li><li>Help industry understand Government needs and vision.</li><li>Identify opportunities.</li><li>Identify key questions.</li><li>Community of users [identification of user requirements].</li><li>UK PoC for RPAS.</li></ul><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><strong>Issues to Address </strong><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><ul><li>Identifying the extent to which the UK can support safe and secure RPAS operations in the UK, including options for the certification of RPAS, pilot licensing, and associated systems.</li><li>Identifying the key characteristics of RPAS infrastructure, including the potential radio spectrum for RPAS operations in the UK.</li><li>Seek to identify common Cross Government user requirements to understand future concepts for shared assets / system procurement and maintenance.</li><li>Determining how the UK might best position itself to take advantage of RPAS industry and technology.</li></ul><p> </p><strong> </strong><p> </p><strong>Engagement </strong><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Understand the potential benefits of RPAS to Government.</p><p> </p><p>Inform and be informed by active industry associations e.g.</p><p> </p><ul><li>Aeronautical and Aerospace and Defence Knowledge Transfer Network Autonomous Systems National technical committee.</li><li>Robotics and Autonomous Systems Special Interest Group.</li><li>Through identification of best practice and successful projects.</li><li>UK industry</li></ul><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Scarborough and Whitby answering member printed Mr Robert Goodwill question first answered 07/04/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1562 label Biography information for Sir Robert Goodwill
	tabling member	1463 label Biography information for Lord Watson of Wyre Forest

46611

	registered interest
	date	02/04/2014
	answering body	Department for Transport
	answering dept id	27
	answering dept short name	Transport
	answering dept sort name	Transport
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will bring forward proposals to update the current Air Navigation Order to define and categorise unmanned aircraft systems.
	tabling member constituency	West Bromwich East
	tabling member printed	Mr Tom Watson
	uin	194982
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/04/2014 answer text <p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The safe operation of civil Remotely Piloted Aircraft (RPA) in the UK is governed by the requirements of the Air Navigation Order 2009 (ANO). RPA with an operating mass of more than 20kg are subject to regulation as though they are manned aircraft.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>RPA with an operating mass of 20kg or less are referred to as ‘small unmanned aircraft'. Small unmanned aircraft are exempt from the majority of the regulations that normally apply to manned aircraft, however their use is specifically covered by two articles within the ANO, which legislate for the ‘general' flying aspects and the flight of those equipped for surveillance. As well as these specific articles however, a more general article which prevents a person ‘causing or permitting an aircraft to endanger the safety of any person or property' also remains applicable. There are no current plans to further categorise RPA.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Scarborough and Whitby answering member printed Mr Robert Goodwill question first answered 10/04/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1562 label Biography information for Sir Robert Goodwill
	tabling member	1463 label Biography information for Lord Watson of Wyre Forest

48038

	registered interest
	date	09/04/2014
	answering body	Department for Transport
	answering dept id	27
	answering dept short name	Transport
	answering dept sort name	Transport
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how much he estimates will have to be spent protecting the High Speed 2 track on phase 1 and phase 2 against the effects of mining subsidence; and whether that sum is included in the overall projected cost.
	tabling member constituency	North West Leicestershire
	tabling member printed	Andrew Bridgen
	uin	196117
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/05/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>On Phase One there are no specific allowances relating to mining subsidence in the cost estimate as there is no active mining below the route, nor any recorded abandoned mining shown in the publically available records that have been researched. Physical ground investigations and desktop studies of existing of records will be undertaken prior to construction of the railway, and allowances have been made in both the cost estimate and the project contingency for any ground treatments that are identified.</p><p> </p><p>On Phase Two there is an allowance within the cost estimate for the risks around crossing open cast quarries, mines and landfill sites and the current level of design reflects where appropriate the difficulty of crossing these type of areas.</p> answering member constituency Scarborough and Whitby answering member printed Mr Robert Goodwill question first answered 01/05/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1562 label Biography information for Sir Robert Goodwill
	tabling member	4133 label Biography information for Andrew Bridgen

48040

	registered interest
	date	09/04/2014
	answering body	Department for Transport
	answering dept id	27
	answering dept short name	Transport
	answering dept sort name	Transport
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many referrals have been made to him where a local planning authority is minded to approve an application for planning permission against the advice of HS2 Ltd; and what his decision has been on each such referral.
	tabling member constituency	North West Leicestershire
	tabling member printed	Andrew Bridgen
	uin	195981
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/05/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>There have been no referrals made to the Secretary of State for Transport where a local planning authority is minded to approve an application for planning permission against the advice of HS2 Ltd.</p> answering member constituency Scarborough and Whitby answering member printed Mr Robert Goodwill question first answered 01/05/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1562 label Biography information for Sir Robert Goodwill
	tabling member	4133 label Biography information for Andrew Bridgen

48042

	registered interest
	date	09/04/2014
	answering body	Department for Transport
	answering dept id	27
	answering dept short name	Transport
	answering dept sort name	Transport
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many consultation requests from local planning authorities under the safeguarding directions for Phase One have been received by HS2 Ltd since 9 July 2013; and from which local planning authorities such consultation requests have been received.
	tabling member constituency	North West Leicestershire
	tabling member printed	Andrew Bridgen
	uin	195980
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/05/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>Since 9 July 2013, HS2 Ltd received 60 consultation requests from local planning authorities under the safeguarding directions for the London to West Midlands section of HS2. The requests were received from the following local planning authorities:</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Birmingham City Council,</p><p>Hertfordshire County Council,</p><p>London Borough of Brent,</p><p>London Borough of Ealing,</p><p>London Borough of Hillingdon,</p><p>Lichfield District Council,</p><p>London Borough of Hammersmith &amp; Fulham,</p><p>North Warwickshire Borough Council,</p><p>Oxfordshire County Council,</p><p>Stratford-upon-Avon District Council,</p><p>Solihull Metropolitan Borough Council,</p><p>South Northamptonshire Council,</p><p>Warwickshire County Council,</p><p>Westminster City Council,</p><p>Aylesbury Vale District Council,</p><p>London Borough of Camden.</p> answering member constituency Scarborough and Whitby answering member printed Mr Robert Goodwill question first answered 01/05/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1562 label Biography information for Sir Robert Goodwill
	tabling member	4133 label Biography information for Andrew Bridgen

48043

	registered interest
	date	09/04/2014
	answering body	Department for Transport
	answering dept id	27
	answering dept short name	Transport
	answering dept sort name	Transport
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many High Speed 2 consultation requests are EIA development as defined in the Town and Country Planning (Environmental Impact Assessment) Regulations 2011; and how many recommendations for refusal of the grant of planning permission are (a) EIA and (b) non-EIA development.
	tabling member constituency	North West Leicestershire
	tabling member printed	Andrew Bridgen
	uin	195979
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/05/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>Safeguarding directions for the London to West Midlands section of HS2 were made in July 2013 and updated in October 2013. The number of High Speed 2 consultation requests which are EIA development as defined in the Town and Country Planning (Environmental Impact Assessment) Regulations 2011 is 5.</p><p>The number of recommendations for refusal of the grant of planning permission are as follows:</p><p>(a) EIA - 3</p><p>(b) non-EIA development – 3</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Scarborough and Whitby answering member printed Mr Robert Goodwill question first answered 01/05/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1562 label Biography information for Sir Robert Goodwill
	tabling member	4133 label Biography information for Andrew Bridgen

48049

	registered interest
	date	09/04/2014
	answering body	Department for Transport
	answering dept id	27
	answering dept short name	Transport
	answering dept sort name	Transport
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many (a) EIA and (b) non-EIA development recommendations HS2 Ltd has made for conditions to be imposed on planning permission to protect the High Speed 2 project.
	tabling member constituency	North West Leicestershire
	tabling member printed	Andrew Bridgen
	uin	196049
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/05/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>Following the making of safeguarding directions for the London to West Midlands section of HS2 in July 2013 (updated October 2013) , the number of recommendations made by HS2 Ltd for conditions to be imposed on planning permission to protect the High Speed 2 project is as follows:</p><p>a) EIA recommendations – 0</p><p> </p><p>b) Non-EIA recommendations - 7</p> answering member constituency Scarborough and Whitby answering member printed Mr Robert Goodwill question first answered 01/05/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1562 label Biography information for Sir Robert Goodwill
	tabling member	4133 label Biography information for Andrew Bridgen

1171780

	registered interest
	date	20/01/2020
	answering body	Department for Transport
	answering dept id	27
	answering dept short name	Transport
	answering dept sort name	Transport
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to comply with International Maritime Organisation protocols that require ships to purify their ballast water to prevent the arrival of invasive species, including (1) Chinese mitten crabs, (2) Portuguese oysters, and (3) zebra mussels, in ships’ ballast tanks.
	tabling member printed	Lord Berkeley
	uin	HL542
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/01/2020 answer text <p>The Department for Transport is currently developing the UK legislative package to enable the UK to accede to the International Convention on the Control and Management of Ships’ Ballast Water and Sediments by Summer 2020 with implementing legislation in place by Autumn 2020.</p> answering member printed Baroness Vere of Norbiton question first answered 28/01/2020 14:05:01 answering member 4580 label Biography information for Baroness Vere of Norbiton
	tabling member	3526 label Biography information for Lord Berkeley

1171801

	registered interest
	date	20/01/2020
	answering body	Department for Transport
	answering dept id	27
	answering dept short name	Transport
	answering dept sort name	Transport
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what measures they intend to take to ensure the safety of smart motorways.
	tabling member printed	Lord Goodlad
	uin	HL563
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/01/2020 answer text <p>The Secretary of State for Transport announced in October an evidence stocktake to gather the facts on the safety of smart motorways and make recommendations. That work is being undertaken at pace.</p><p> </p><p>The Department does not want to pre-judge the results of that work, which we will be publishing very soon. We will continue to prioritise improving safety – making conditions safer for everyone on our roads.</p> answering member printed Baroness Vere of Norbiton question first answered 28/01/2020 14:04:27 answering member 4580 label Biography information for Baroness Vere of Norbiton
	tabling member	670 label Biography information for Lord Goodlad

1171834

	registered interest
	date	20/01/2020
	answering body	Department for Transport
	answering dept id	27
	answering dept short name	Transport
	answering dept sort name	Transport
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made, if any, of the implications for the Isles of Scilly of no longer having a ferry.
	tabling member printed	Lord West of Spithead
	uin	HL596
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/01/2020 answer text <p>A regular passenger service is provided commercially by the Isles of Scilly Steamship Group during the summer season. The Scillonian III vessel is currently being prepared for the new season and is scheduled to resume service on 23 March 2020.</p><p> </p><p>No assessment has been made by Government on the implication for the Isles of Scilly of the ferry service ceasing.</p> answering member printed Baroness Vere of Norbiton question first answered 28/01/2020 14:04:04 answering member 4580 label Biography information for Baroness Vere of Norbiton
	tabling member	3834 label Biography information for Lord West of Spithead