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348746

registered interest
date	05/06/2015
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Railway Stations: 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 improve access for disabled people at National Rail stations.
tabling member constituency	Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross
tabling member printed	Dr Paul Monaghan
uin	1300
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/06/2015 answer text <p>By the end of this year the Access for All programme, launched in 2006, will have provided step free routes to more than 150 stations and smaller scale improvements at over 1,100. A further £160m has been allocated to extend the programme until 2019 and the 68 stations to benefit from this were announced last year.</p><p> </p><p>This is in addition to access improvements delivered by other major projects or the industry itself, which must meet UK and EU standards for accessibility.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 10/06/2015 14:11:32 question first ministerially corrected 10/06/2015 14:43:40 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry previous answer version 3604 answering member constituency Harrogate and Knaresborough answering member printed Andrew Jones answering member 3996
tabling member	4383 label Biography information for Dr Paul Monaghan

348580

registered interest
date	04/06/2015
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Railways: Swansea
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 on electrification of the mainline between London and Swansea; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Neath
tabling member printed	Christina Rees
uin	1268
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/06/2015 answer text <p>The Great Western electrification is the biggest and most complex electrification scheme for more than a generation and it is planned to be completed during Control Period 5.</p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 12/06/2015 11:40:17 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
tabling member	4525 label Biography information for Christina Rees

348581

registered interest
date	04/06/2015
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Railways: Fares
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what estimate he has made of average change in regulated rail fares between 2015 and 2016.
tabling member constituency	Neath
tabling member printed	Christina Rees
uin	1240
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/06/2015 answer text <p>We have committed to capping regulated rail fares at the Retail Price Inflation (RPI) for five years from 2016 and we have also stopped operators increasing individual regulated fares by up to 2% more than RPI. Train operators will use the July 2015 RPI figure, published in August, to set regulated rail fares for 2016. Data on these fares will be published in December 2015.</p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 12/06/2015 11:26:56 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
tabling member	4525 label Biography information for Christina Rees

348598

registered interest
date	04/06/2015
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Railways: South West
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what recent discussions his Department has had with Network Rail and First Great Western on improving the rail service to Torbay and the South West.
tabling member constituency	Torbay
tabling member printed	Kevin Foster
uin	1112
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/06/2015 answer text <p>Since December 2013, services on the 20 minute journey from Newton Abbot to Paignton have operated approximately every half an hour, an improvement on the previous hourly service with an additional 12 trains per day. The additional service was promoted by Torbay and Devon County Council and part funded by an EU grant.</p><p> </p><p>There are long standing aspirations to maintain and expand this service supported by recommendations in Network Rail’s Route Utilisation Strategy (RUS). The Department’s Rail Executive is in ongoing discussions with First Great Western and Network Rail about the continuation and expansion of this service and responses to our 2014 Great Western consultation showed strong support for this.</p><p> </p><p>In addition, Network Rail continues to focus on the ongoing work as to whether a new or reopened inland route should be constructed to provide a more resilient railway for the South West, in addition to what works are ongoing to improve Dawlish itself.</p><p>Options for maintaining a resilient rail service to the Southwest Peninsula were presented by Network Rail to the Secretary of State in July 2014. The options will influence the next industry plan in 2016 and inform the Government’s rail investment strategy for 2019-2024.</p><p> </p><p>Network Rail is progressing work on the existing rail route via Dawlish to ensure that future route failure is avoided.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 12/06/2015 11:16:56 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
tabling member	4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster

348599

registered interest
date	04/06/2015
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Railways: South West
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what progress his Department has made on improving the resilience of the railway to Torbay and the South West.
tabling member constituency	Torbay
tabling member printed	Kevin Foster
uin	1113
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/06/2015 answer text <p>Network Rail spent £40 million repairing and strengthening the line at Dawlish after the severe weather in 2014, and in order to try prevent the kind of damage to the railway that happened in 2014 from happening again, £31 million is also going into improving the resilience of the Great Western route.</p><p> </p><p>Options for maintaining a resilient rail service to the Southwest Peninsula were presented by Network Rail to the Secretary of State in July 2014. The options will influence the next industry plan in 2016 and inform the Government’s rail investment strategy for 2019-2024.</p><p> </p><p>Network Rail is progressing work on the existing rail route via Dawlish to ensure that future route failure is avoided.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 12/06/2015 11:21:18 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
tabling member	4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster

348659

registered interest
date	04/06/2015
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Department for Transport: Cost Effectiveness
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to the statement by HM Treasury of 4 June 2015, if he will publish a map of the land to be sold in the vicinity of King's Cross station; how he intends to achieve the other £200 million of savings expected from his Department in 2015-16; and from which cost headings such savings will be made.
tabling member constituency	Nottingham South
tabling member printed	Lilian Greenwood
uin	1260
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/06/2015 answer text <p>A map of the land to be sold in the vicinity of Kings Cross station is attached. The £200 million of other savings to be made in 2015-16 are as follows:</p><p> </p><p>£124 million from reduced contingency;</p><p>£31 million reduction in grant to Transport for London;</p><p>£23 million from Cycling Cities Ambition budget;</p><p>£16 million from Regional Air Connectivity fund;</p><p>£5 million from the Stations Commercial Projects Facility;</p><p>£1 million from Sheffield Tram-Train project.</p><p> </p><p>The return of expected 2015-16 underspends on these projects does not mean that they have been cancelled.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 09/06/2015 15:36:51 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry attachment 1 file name 001260 - Kings Cross map.pdf title 1260 - Map of Kings Cross
tabling member	4029 label Biography information for Lilian Greenwood

348660

registered interest
date	04/06/2015
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Rolling Stock: Procurement
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 2 June 2015 to Question 395, what the maximum permitted line speed of the bi-modal IEP train in regular service will be when that train is running on (a) diesel and (b) electric power.
tabling member constituency	Nottingham South
tabling member printed	Lilian Greenwood
uin	1261
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/06/2015 answer text <p>The current maximum permitted line speed of a bi-modal IEP train in regular service when running on (a) diesel and (b) electric power is 125 miles per hour.</p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 09/06/2015 09:48:22 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
tabling member	4029 label Biography information for Lilian Greenwood

348401

registered interest
date	03/06/2015
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Gospel Oak-Barking Railway Line: Electrification
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what estimate he has made of the cost of electrifying the Gospel Oak to Barking railway line; and what contribution his Department plans to make to that project.
tabling member constituency	Nottingham South
tabling member printed	Lilian Greenwood
uin	966
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/06/2015 answer text <p>The Government has made no estimate of the cost of electrifying the Gospel Oak to Barking railway line. Network Rail will provide an estimate following formal sign-off of stage 3 of the Governance for Railway Investment Projects (‘GRIP’) process.</p><p> </p><p>The Department for Transport has allocated £90 million towards the project (2013 prices).</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 08/06/2015 11:04:06 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
tabling member	4029 label Biography information for Lilian Greenwood

348408

registered interest
date	03/06/2015
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Network Rail
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 1 June 2015 to Question 161, what estimate his Department has made of the efficient cost of those Control Period 5 projects that have completed the enhancement cost adjustment mechanism process; and what the estimated cost was of those projects before they began that process.
tabling member constituency	Nottingham South
tabling member printed	Lilian Greenwood
uin	985
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/06/2015 answer text <p>The Office of Rail and Road (ORR) is responsible for determining the efficient cost of Network Rail’s CP5 enhancement schemes, not the Department for Transport.</p><p> </p><p>As explained in my previous response to the Honourable Member for Nottingham South, the ORR publishes quarterly updates on the enhancements cost adjustment mechanism (ECAM) process. This includes information about efficiencies identified on specific schemes through the ECAM process. For example, the ORR recently published ECAM findings on Reading Station area redevelopment, Great Western electrification and Midland Main Line electrification on its website:</p><p> </p><p><a href="http://orr.gov.uk/what-and-how-we-regulate/regulation-of-network-rail/how-we-regulate-network-rail/control-period-5-cp5/cp5-delivery-plan" target="_blank">http://orr.gov.uk/what-and-how-we-regulate/regulation-of-network-rail/how-we-regulate-network-rail/control-period-5-cp5/cp5-delivery-plan</a>.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 08/06/2015 11:12:42 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
tabling member	4029 label Biography information for Lilian Greenwood

348411

registered interest
date	03/06/2015
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Level Crossings
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will place in the Library a copy of the Level Crossing Reform Action Plan.
tabling member constituency	Nottingham South
tabling member printed	Lilian Greenwood
uin	1008
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/06/2015 answer text <p>I can confirm that I have placed copies of the Department’s Level Crossing Reform Action Plan in the Libraries of both Houses.</p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 08/06/2015 11:44:04 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
tabling member	4029 label Biography information for Lilian Greenwood