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1664876

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date	16/10/2023
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Charging Points: Rural Areas
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 ensure that rural communities have access to electric vehicle charging points.
tabling member constituency	Leeds North West
tabling member printed	Alex Sobel
uin	202570
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/10/2023 answer text <p>Earlier this month, the Government published ‘<a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/652e37b46b6fbf0014b757a9/dft-future-transport-supporting-rural-transport-innovation.pdf" target="_blank">Future of Transport: helping local authorities to unlock the benefits of technology and innovation in rural transport’</a>. The document details the support that the Government is providing to ensure that electric vehicle chargepoints are installed across the UK, including in rural communities. This support includes grants for homes and workplaces, support for local authorities through the Local Electric Vehicle Infrastructure Fund and the On-Street Residential Chargepoint Scheme, and supporting long distance journeys through the Rapid Charging Fund.</p><p> </p><p>In addition, the Government recently published its <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/plan-for-drivers" target="_blank">Plan for Drivers</a>. The Plan sets out seven further actions that the Government is planning to take to support the transition to zero emission driving. This includes an intention to review the grid connections process for EV chargepoints, to consult on the expansion of street works permits to chargepoint operators, and to consult on the expansion of permitted development rights.</p><p> </p><p>The Government will continue to monitor market developments to determine whether any significant gaps in charging infrastructure provision emerge and will consider the case for further support if required.</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 24/10/2023 10:01:36 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	4658 label Biography information for Alex Sobel

1663639

registered interest
date	13/10/2023
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Leeds-Bradford Airport
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, on what date Leeds Bradford Airport submitted its application for designation as a coordinated airport.
tabling member constituency	Leeds North West
tabling member printed	Alex Sobel
uin	201493
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/10/2023 answer text <p>3 July 2023.</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 23/10/2023 12:41:59 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	4658 label Biography information for Alex Sobel

1656634

registered interest
date	01/09/2023
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Aviation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether he has made an assessment of the potential merits taking steps to increase the cost of private jet flights, in the context of their impact on the environment.
tabling member constituency	Leeds North West
tabling member printed	Alex Sobel
uin	196411
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/09/2023 answer text <p>The aviation sector, including business aviation, is important for the whole of the UK economy and supports connectivity, direct economic activity, trade, investment and jobs.</p><p> </p><p>The Department is taking measures to reduce emissions from aviation. Its Jet Zero Strategy sets out how the sector can achieve net zero aviation by 2050 without requiring additional government interventions to limit aviation growth, by focusing on new fuels and technology.</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 11/09/2023 12:43:58 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	4658 label Biography information for Alex Sobel

1626339

registered interest
date	09/05/2023
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Active Travel: Finance
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 stakeholders on the level of funding for active travel.
tabling member constituency	Leeds North West
tabling member printed	Alex Sobel
uin	184176
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/05/2023 answer text <p>Officials from the Department meet regularly with active travel stakeholders to discuss questions of funding, policy and programme delivery. This includes regular meetings of the Cycling and Walking Investment Strategy Stakeholder Advisory Group, which last met on 27 April.</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 11/05/2023 14:46:21 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	4658 label Biography information for Alex Sobel

1626340

registered interest
date	09/05/2023
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Active Travel: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether he plans to review the level of funding planned for active travel until the end of this Parliament.
tabling member constituency	Leeds North West
tabling member printed	Alex Sobel
uin	184177
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/05/2023 answer text <p>A total of over £3 billion of Government funding is projected to be invested in active travel over the five years up to 2025 from a wide range of ring-fenced and non-ring-fenced funds. The Department has confirmed that a total of at least £100m of dedicated capital funding for active travel will be provided over the two-year period of 2023/24 to 2024/25. It is currently finalising the revenue budget for active travel for those years as part of its consideration of all future spending plans.</p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 16/05/2023 11:51:26 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	4658 label Biography information for Alex Sobel

1626341

registered interest
date	09/05/2023
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Active Travel: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether he plans to review the current level of revenue funding for active travel.
tabling member constituency	Leeds North West
tabling member printed	Alex Sobel
uin	184178
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/05/2023 answer text <p>The Department has confirmed that a total of at least £100m of dedicated capital funding for active travel will be provided over the two-year period of 2023/24 to 2024/25. It is currently finalising the revenue budget for active travel for those years as part of its consideration of all future spending plans.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 16/05/2023 11:49:16 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	4658 label Biography information for Alex Sobel

1626342

registered interest
date	09/05/2023
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Active Travel: Finance
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 protect the active travel 4 budget.
tabling member constituency	Leeds North West
tabling member printed	Alex Sobel
uin	184179
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/05/2023 answer text <p>Active Travel England will be shortly announcing the recipients of the £200 million of ATF4 funding. Investing in active travel is a transformative way to improve health and air quality, cut carbon emissions and support local economic growth. The £200m is part of over £3 billion which the Government is investing into active travel up to 2025.</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 11/05/2023 14:49:54 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	4658 label Biography information for Alex Sobel

1588700

registered interest
date	23/02/2023
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Aviation: Colour Vision Deficiency
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will take steps to collate data on aircraft accidents in commercial operations in which colour vision was a significant factor over the past twenty years.
tabling member constituency	Leeds North West
tabling member printed	Alex Sobel
uin	151401
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/03/2023 answer text <p>The Department policy on colour vision is derived from a range of evidence, including but not limited to accident data. This is used to set requirements based on the fact that the perception of colour cues in the external environment is key to safe performance of flight duties. The Department believes there would be little benefit to conducting such an exercise, as knowledge gained from air accident investigations is already reflected in UK policy.</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 03/03/2023 08:56:28 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	4658 label Biography information for Alex Sobel

1588702

registered interest
date	23/02/2023
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Aviation: Colour Vision Deficiency
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if his Department will consider the potential merits of introducing a practical colour vision assessment for commercial pilots.
tabling member constituency	Leeds North West
tabling member printed	Alex Sobel
uin	151402
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/03/2023 answer text <p><strong> </strong></p><p>This Government is committed to ensuring that no one who is safe to fly commercial aircraft is barred from doing so. Regarding colour vision regulations, this means being able to assess the extent of colour vision deficiency accurately, and calibrating requirements to maintain safety standards without unnecessarily penalising those with relatively mild colour vision deficiency. The CAA’s view as regulator is that the Colour Assessment and Diagnosis (CAD) test currently used provides the most accurate and reproducible assessment of an applicant’s class of colour vision. It would therefore not be appropriate to offer a wider range of tests, as the CAD is suitable to the safety requirements of UK aviation.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 02/03/2023 14:23:29 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	4658 label Biography information for Alex Sobel

1585425

registered interest
date	08/02/2023
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, how many electric charging points there are in (a) Leeds, (b) Leeds North West constituency, (c) Adel and Wharfedale, (d) Headingley and Hyde Park, (e) Otley and Yeadon and (f) Yeadon.
tabling member constituency	Leeds North West
tabling member printed	Alex Sobel
uin	142824
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/02/2023 answer text <p>Data held by the Department for Transport on electric vehicle charging devices is sourced from those installed or funded under government approved grant schemes, operated by the Office for Zero Emission Vehicles (OZEV) and from the electric vehicle charging platform Zap-Map. Charging devices not supplied via these schemes or recorded on Zap-Map are not included and the accurate number of charging devices may be higher than recorded in these figures.</p><p> </p><p>The below table details for (a), (b) and in part for (c), (d) and (e):</p><p>i. the number of publicly available electric vehicle charging devices as at 1st January 2023 according to Zap-Map;</p><p>ii. the number of domestic electric vehicle charging devices as funded by the Domestic Recharge Scheme (DRS) as at the scheme end in 2014;</p><p>iii. the number of domestic electric vehicle charging devices funded through the Electric Vehicle Homecharge Scheme (EVHS) at 1st October 2022 and;</p><p>iv. workplace electric vehicle charging sockets funded through the Workplace Charging Scheme (WCS) at 1st October 2022.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>i.) Public charging devices</p></td><td><p>ii.) DRS charging devices</p></td><td><p>iii.) EVHS charging devices</p></td><td><p>iv.) WCS charging sockets</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>(a) Leeds</p></td><td><p>412</p></td><td><p>212</p></td><td><p>4,908</p></td><td><p>685</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>(b) Leeds North West constituency</p></td><td><p>32</p></td><td><p>29</p></td><td><p>708</p></td><td><p>35</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>(c) Adel and Wharfedale</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>357</p></td><td><p>3</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>(d) Headingley and Hyde Park</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>30</p></td><td><p>7</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>(e) Otley and Yeadon</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>141</p></td><td><p>19</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>The data across columns should not be summed to create a total as the public charging device statistics and the EVHS statistics count charging devices whereas WCS counts charging sockets, making them incompatible to sum together.</p><p> </p><p>The remaining data requested for (c) Adel and Wharfedale, (d) Headingley and Hyde Park, (e) Otleyand Yeadon and (f) Yeadon are unavailable as the department is unable to publish data at these geographic levels.</p><p> </p><p>A geographic breakdown of data from the Electric Vehicle Chargepoint Grant (EVCG) scheme has not yet been published and so has been excluded from this table.</p><p> </p><p>The most recently available published data from the On-Street Residential Chargepoint Scheme (ORCS) show no electric vehicle charging devices have yet been installed in Leeds through the scheme. However, as of 1st October 2022, funding had been awarded to Leeds City Council to install 42 charging devices.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 22/02/2023 14:32:29 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	4658 label Biography information for Alex Sobel