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1641111

registered interest
date	02/06/2023
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Renewable Transport Fuel Obligation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport when he plans to publish the response to the Supporting Recycled Carbon Fuels through the Renewable Transport Fuels Obligation consultation.
tabling member constituency	Kingston upon Hull North
tabling member printed	Dame Diana Johnson
uin	187092
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/06/2023 answer text <p>The Department has carefully analysed responses to the consultation “Supporting Recycled Carbon Fuels through the Renewable Transport Fuel Obligation” and will be publishing the Government response as soon as possible.</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 12/06/2023 08:59:13 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	1533 label Biography information for Dame Diana Johnson

1641248

registered interest
date	02/06/2023
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Active Travel: Expenditure
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what proportion of his Department's combined resource and capital expenditure was spent on active travel projects in the 2022-23 financial year.
tabling member constituency	Paisley and Renfrewshire North
tabling member printed	Gavin Newlands
uin	187282
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/06/2023 answer text <p>Around £3 billion is projected to be invested in active travel in the 5 years up to 2025, despite the need for efficiency savings across Government due to global financial pressures. This includes £273m spent on ringfenced active travel projects and programmes in the financial year of 2022-23. This represents 1% of the department’s total expenditure in 2022-23. In addition to this, funding was spent on active travel projects from wider sources such as the City Region Sustainable Transport Settlements and the Levelling Up Fund.</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 12/06/2023 10:53:54 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	4420 label Biography information for Gavin Newlands

1641249

registered interest
date	02/06/2023
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Active Travel: Expenditure
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what proportion of his Department's combined resource and capital expenditure is forecast to be spent on active travel projects in (a) 2023-24, (b) 2024-25 and (c) 2025-26.
tabling member constituency	Paisley and Renfrewshire North
tabling member printed	Gavin Newlands
uin	187283
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/06/2023 answer text <p>Around £3 billion is projected to be invested in active travel in the 5 years up to 2025, despite the need for efficiency savings across Government due to global financial pressures. This sum includes at least £250 million of ringfenced revenue and capital funding for active travel infrastructure over the two-year period of 2023-24 to 2024-25. The £3 billion also includes funding from wider sources such as the City Region Sustainable Transport Settlements and the Levelling Up Fund.</p><p> </p><p>Planned expenditure on ringfenced active travel funding (£250m across 2023-24 and 2024-25), represents around 0.4% and 0.5% of the Department’s total planned expenditure for the period of 2023-24 and 2024-25.</p><p>The budget for the 2025-26 financial year has not yet been agreed and will be set as part of the next Spending Review.</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 12/06/2023 10:52:25 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	4420 label Biography information for Gavin Newlands

1641470

registered interest
date	02/06/2023
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Charging Points: Solihull
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how much funding was made available to Solihull Council for the On-street Residential Chargepoint Scheme for the (a) 2022-23 and (b) 2023-24 financial years.
tabling member constituency	Solihull
tabling member printed	Julian Knight
uin	187457
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/06/2023 answer text <p>Solihull Council did not apply for On-Street Residential Chargepoint Scheme (ORCS) funding during 2022-23 and has not yet applied for ORCS funding in 2023-24.</p><p> </p><p>Solihull Council received £114,610 in ORCS funding during 2020-21, which helped to fund the delivery of 16 on-street chargepoints with 32 available charging sockets.</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 08/06/2023 09:52:54 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	4410 label Biography information for Julian Knight

1641481

registered interest
date	02/06/2023
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, whether he plans to publish statutory guidance for local authorities on public electric vehicle charging infrastructure.
tabling member constituency	Bath
tabling member printed	Wera Hobhouse
uin	187468
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/06/2023 answer text <p>A variety of tools and examples of best practice are available for local authorities to utilise through the Local Electric Vehicle Infrastructure (LEVI) Support Body, which was appointed by the Government. This includes a ‘Knowledge Repository’,which provides local authorities with articles and guidance on electric vehicle infrastructure. This is available to all local authorities in England at no cost.</p><p> </p><p>In addition, the Government is currently working, with the Institute of Engineering and Technology, on guidance to aid local authorities as they plan their electric vehicle infrastructure. The guidance is expected to be published later this year.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 09/06/2023 10:47:30 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	4602 label Biography information for Wera Hobhouse

1640451

registered interest
date	25/05/2023
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Cycleways: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what recent estimate he has made of the level of funding required to maintain the National Cycle Network; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Bristol East
tabling member printed	Kerry McCarthy
uin	186821
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/06/2023 answer text <p>The Government has not made an assessment of the level of funding required to maintain the National Cycle Network (NCN). The NCN is made up of over 12,000 miles of signed on and off-road routes across the UK. Sustrans manage the NCN and rely on a variety of partners to maintain and grow the Network, including landowners, highway authorities, and national and local government.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 19/06/2023 09:20:44 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	1491 label Biography information for Kerry McCarthy

1640571

registered interest
date	25/05/2023
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Department for Transport: Remote Working
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how much his Department spent on (a) IT and communications equipment, (b) chairs, desks and other furniture and (c) electronic fans, heaters and other equipment used for temperature control, to enable staff in his core Department to work from home during the financial years (i) 2020-21, (ii) 2021-22 and (iii) 2022-23.
tabling member constituency	Islington South and Finsbury
tabling member printed	Emily Thornberry
uin	186861
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/06/2023 answer text <p>Provision of suitable equipment is a health and safety requirement for all employers, including Government, businesses and political parties, to enable employees to work safely and comfortably.</p><p> </p><p>Providing equipment to support home working allowed civil servants across government to continue to work throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, at a time when much of this work was critical to public safety.</p><p> </p><p>The Department for Transport has spent the following amounts to enable staff to work from home:</p><p>(i) Financial Year 2020-21 and April 2021 to July 2021-22: £631,446</p><p>(ii) Financial Year 2021-22 (August 2021 to March 2022): £51,050</p><p>(iii) Financial Year 2022-23: £121,393</p><p> </p><p>The Department is unable to provide a further breakdown related to the specific categories of equipment set out in the parliamentary question.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 09/06/2023 08:38:50 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	1536 label Biography information for Emily Thornberry

1642864

registered interest
date	25/05/2023
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Road Works
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether he has had recent discussions with the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities on reducing the number and frequency of roadworks.
tabling member constituency	Erewash
tabling member printed	Maggie Throup
uin	905172
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/06/2023 answer text <p>Ministers regularly discuss a range of issues with their counterparts in other Government departments. Utility companies have a right of access to the highway to install and repair the apparatus on which we all rely. Highway authorities have duties to coordinate works on their networks and to secure the expeditious movement of traffic. The Government has introduced a number of initiatives, such as the development of Street Manager, and regulatory changes all designed to improve the efficiency of how works are carried out.</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 08/06/2023 15:09:36 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	4447 label Biography information for Maggie Throup

1642867

registered interest
date	25/05/2023
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Road Traffic
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what recent assessment he has made of the annual cost to the economy of road traffic congestion in England.
tabling member constituency	Christchurch
tabling member printed	Sir Christopher Chope
uin	905178
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/06/2023 answer text <p>Managing traffic on local roads is the responsibility of local traffic authorities. They are subject to the Network Management Duty, which requires them to manage their roads to deliver ‘expeditious movement’ for all traffic including pedestrians. They have a wide range of tools already available to them to manage congestion and traffic flows.</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 08/06/2023 15:18:07 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	242 label Biography information for Sir Christopher Chope

1639972

registered interest
date	24/05/2023
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Aviation: Disability
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what recent steps his Department has taken to encourage airlines to (a) improve accessibility on flights for passengers with disabilities, (b) improve the on-board flight experience for passengers with disabilities and (c) reduce discrimination against people with disabilities within the aviation industry.
tabling member constituency	Putney
tabling member printed	Fleur Anderson
uin	186711
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/06/2023 answer text <p>Air travel should be accessible for everyone. The Department is working with the sector and consumer groups to ensure that disabled passengers and those with reduced mobility have the confidence to travel by air and the assistance they require.</p><p>The Department published the Aviation Consumer Policy Reform Consultation in 2022 to seek views on a variety of consumer rights issues, including reforms to the compensation available for damage to wheelchairs and mobility aids on domestic UK flights, and to explore other possible reforms to support passengers with accessibility needs better. The Department is analysing the responses and will set out next steps in due course.</p><p>The Government appointed the Disability and Access Ambassador for Airports, Ann Frye OBE, in July 2021. Her role is to improve accessibility and the quality of services and facilities for disabled people at airports.</p><p>The Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) is responsible for enforcing consumer laws that apply specifically to aviation, including in relation to accessibility. On 25 April 2023, the CAA published a consultation on a new performance framework for airline accessibility which closes on 21 July. The CAA published an additional interim report on airport accessibility in December 2022. It continues to monitor performance and has set clear expectations for further improvements and for airports to provide high-quality service this year. It will publish its normal annual report this summer.</p><p>The CAA has previously written to airports informing them that the experience passengers received in 2022 was unacceptable, required several airports to put in place action plans together with airlines, and published additional guidance for airports on assistance services.</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 09/06/2023 08:32:24 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	4788 label Biography information for Fleur Anderson