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date	02/11/2017
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Humber Bridge: Tolls
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what the cost to the public purse would be of abolishing fees on the Humber Bridge.
tabling member constituency	Kingston upon Hull West and Hessle
tabling member printed	Emma Hardy
uin	111245
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/11/2017 answer text <p>The tolls on the Humber Bridge were introduced to help pay for the costs of constructing the Bridge, which opened in 1981. Construction was financed through a loan from the Government of the day.</p><p> </p><p>In 2012, the present Government wrote off £150m of the £332m debt In order to reduce tolls and encourage use of the Bridge. Since then, the number of vehicles using the Bridge has increased significantly.</p><p> </p><p>In 2015, the Humber Bridge Board refinanced the remaining debt of £172m with a Public Works Board Loan. The Government has not made an estimate of the costs of abolishing tolls on the Humber Bridge, since the operation and financing of the remaining debt of the Humber Bridge is the responsibility for the Board and its constituent authorities.</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman grouped question UIN 111238 111246 question first answered 08/11/2017 10:59:55 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	4645 label Biography information for Emma Hardy

782866

registered interest
date	02/11/2017
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Humber Bridge: Tolls
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, for what reasons the Government introduced fees on the Humber Bridge; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Kingston upon Hull West and Hessle
tabling member printed	Emma Hardy
uin	111246
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/11/2017 answer text <p>The tolls on the Humber Bridge were introduced to help pay for the costs of constructing the Bridge, which opened in 1981. Construction was financed through a loan from the Government of the day.</p><p> </p><p>In 2012, the present Government wrote off £150m of the £332m debt In order to reduce tolls and encourage use of the Bridge. Since then, the number of vehicles using the Bridge has increased significantly.</p><p> </p><p>In 2015, the Humber Bridge Board refinanced the remaining debt of £172m with a Public Works Board Loan. The Government has not made an estimate of the costs of abolishing tolls on the Humber Bridge, since the operation and financing of the remaining debt of the Humber Bridge is the responsibility for the Board and its constituent authorities.</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman grouped question UIN 111238 111245 question first answered 08/11/2017 10:59:55 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	4645 label Biography information for Emma Hardy

782867

registered interest
date	02/11/2017
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Humber Bridge: Tolls
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what plans he has to (a) reduce and (b) abolish fees for customers on the Humber Bridge; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Kingston upon Hull West and Hessle
tabling member printed	Emma Hardy
uin	111238
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/11/2017 answer text <p>The tolls on the Humber Bridge were introduced to help pay for the costs of constructing the Bridge, which opened in 1981. Construction was financed through a loan from the Government of the day.</p><p> </p><p>In 2012, the present Government wrote off £150m of the £332m debt In order to reduce tolls and encourage use of the Bridge. Since then, the number of vehicles using the Bridge has increased significantly.</p><p> </p><p>In 2015, the Humber Bridge Board refinanced the remaining debt of £172m with a Public Works Board Loan. The Government has not made an estimate of the costs of abolishing tolls on the Humber Bridge, since the operation and financing of the remaining debt of the Humber Bridge is the responsibility for the Board and its constituent authorities.</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman grouped question UIN 111245 111246 question first answered 08/11/2017 10:59:55 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	4645 label Biography information for Emma Hardy

782871

registered interest
date	02/11/2017
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Public Transport: Capital Investment
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 equity of the distribution of transport capital investment in each region in each year since 2010.
tabling member constituency	Oldham West and Royton
tabling member printed	Jim McMahon
uin	111123
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/11/2017 answer text <p>Decisions about where and how to invest in transport are guided by the business case approach. This involves taking a range of strategic and economic factors into consideration in a fair and rigorous way, and ensures transport capital investment goes where it is most needed.</p><p> </p><p>The Department does not make assessments on the equity of the distribution of historic transport capital investment across regions. But ministers have long recognised historic underinvestment in transport infrastructure, especially in the North.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 07/11/2017 12:51:27 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	4569 label Biography information for Jim McMahon

782881

registered interest
date	02/11/2017
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Volkswagen
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 representatives of Volkswagen on the timetable for the completion of the required emissions and technological repair work for affected vehicles in (a) Northern Ireland and (b) the UK.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	111008
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/11/2017 answer text <p>Ministers have pressed Volkswagen to apply the technical fix to vehicles in the UK (including Northern Ireland) as quickly as possible and to make it as easy as possible for owners to have this work completed. Officials meet monthly with the company to discuss their progress. Volkswagen have now applied the technical measure to around 800,000 of the 1.2m affected vehicles.</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 08/11/2017 10:50:27 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon