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1046826

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date	23/01/2019
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Driving Tests: Languages
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment his Department has made of the effect of the decision implemented in 2014 by the Driving Standards Agency to stop language support being permitted in practical driving tests on access to driving in the UK for immigrants with other first languages.
tabling member constituency	Cambridge
tabling member printed	Daniel Zeichner
uin	211787
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/01/2019 answer text <p>The Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA) does not hold data as to whether a candidate who takes a practical driving test is an immigrant with other first languages. As such, the DVSA has not made an assessment on the effect of the decision, implemented in 2014, to stop language support being permitted during practical driving tests on access to driving in the UK for immigrants.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 31/01/2019 15:42:35 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	4382 label Biography information for Daniel Zeichner

1046827

registered interest
date	23/01/2019
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Driving Tests: Languages
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 effect of Driving Standards Agency changes to language support in driving tests on the ability of refugees to drive in the UK; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Cambridge
tabling member printed	Daniel Zeichner
uin	211788
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/01/2019 answer text <p>The Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA) does not hold data as to whether a candidate who takes a practical driving test is a refugee. As such, the DVSA has not made an assessment on the effect of changes to language support during practical driving tests on the ability of refugees to drive in the UK.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 31/01/2019 15:56:12 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	4382 label Biography information for Daniel Zeichner

1046852

registered interest
date	23/01/2019
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Road Traffic Offences: Cameras
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what his policy is on the future roll-out of yellow vulture cameras that catch drivers speeding, using their mobile phone, eating or not wearing a seatbelt.
tabling member constituency	North East Hampshire
tabling member printed	Mr Ranil Jayawardena
uin	211828
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/01/2019 answer text <p>These cameras only function to detect speeding offences. The Government has no current plans to change the scope.</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 30/01/2019 14:55:01 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	4498 label Biography information for Mr Ranil Jayawardena

1046877

registered interest
date	23/01/2019
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Department for Transport: Sikhs
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many Sikhs are employed in his Department; and whether they are recorded as (a) an ethnic or (b) a religious group.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Edgbaston
tabling member printed	Preet Kaur Gill
uin	211852
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/01/2019 answer text <p>The table below shows data the Department (DfT Central Department, the Driver Vehicle &amp; Licensing Agency, the Driver &amp; Vehicle Services Agency, the Maritime &amp; Coastguard Agency and the Vehicle Certification Agency) holds on the number of staff that have indicated that they are Sikh, and whether this information is recorded as an ethnic or religious group as at 31 December 2018.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Department Total</p></td><td><p>Recorded as Ethnic or Religious group</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>51</p></td><td><p>Religion</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>The figures represent staff on our payroll and does not include contractors and other non-pay employees.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 31/01/2019 13:46:59 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	4603 label Biography information for Preet Kaur Gill

1046931

registered interest
date	23/01/2019
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Department for Transport: Civil Servants
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the corrected Answer of 22 January 2019 to Question 206251, how many civil servants in his Department were working part or full-time on projects in the Government Major Projects Portfolio in (a) June 2016 and (b) December 2018.
tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
uin	211651
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/01/2019 answer text <p>The Government Major Projects Portfolio (GMPP) is a continually evolving portfolio of the government’s most complex and high risk projects. Direct comparisons of the GMPP across years should therefore be treated with caution. Projects join and leave the GMPP throughout the year and it is therefore likely that a simple comparison across two time points will refer to different sets of projects.</p><p> </p><p>At the end of June 2016 (i.e. the end of the Quarter 1 reporting period for 2016-17), 320 Full Time Equivalent (FTE) public sector employees were reported as working on the Department for Transport’s GMPP projects.</p><p> </p><p>GMPP data for December 2018 (Q3 2018/19) has not yet been cleared and finalised. At the end of September 2018 (i.e. the latest submitted data, at end of the Quarter 2 reporting period for 2018-19), 361 Full Time Equivalent (FTE) public sector employees were reported as working on the Department for Transport’s GMPP projects.</p><p> </p><p>Given the different nature of the projects and programmes within the Department for Transport, some of the FTE figures include public sector employees in the relevant arms-length-body.</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 31/01/2019 15:48:21 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett

1047101

registered interest
date	23/01/2019
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Aviation: Egypt
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what estimate his Department has made of the cost to the UK aviation and travel industry of the failure to restart flights to Sharm-el Sheikh.
tabling member constituency	Warley
tabling member printed	John Spellar
uin	211641
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/01/2019 answer text <p>The Department does not hold information on the costs to the tourism and airline industries of any restrictions on flights to Sharm-el-Sheikh.</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 31/01/2019 14:23:36 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	318 label Biography information for John Spellar

1045989

registered interest
date	22/01/2019
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Department for Transport: Cleaning Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, which service providers are contracted to carry out third party cleaning contracts for his (a) Department and (b) executive agencies; if he will list all of the services delivered by third party contractors to his (i) Department and (ii) executive agencies; and how many people working for those third party contractors are paid less than the Living Wage as defined by the Living Wage Foundation.
tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
tabling member printed	Frank Field
uin	211152
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/01/2019 answer text <p>Third party cleaning contracts are undertaken by Interserve FM for the central Department for Transport (DfT(C)), Maritime &amp; Coastguard Agency (MCA), Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA) and Vehicle Certification Agency (VCA). The Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA) third party cleaning contract is undertaken by Sodexo Ltd as part of a Private Finance Initiative Agreement with Telereal Trillium.</p><p> </p><p>The central Department for Transport, MCA, DVSA, VCA and DVLA all utilise fully encompassing Total Facilities Management contracts which can provide the following services: -</p><p>Cleaning;</p><p>Catering;</p><p>Security;</p><p>Reception;</p><p>Grounds Maintenance;</p><p>Planned Maintenance;</p><p>Reactive Maintenance;</p><p>Porterage;</p><p>Reprographics and</p><p>Post Room.</p><p> </p><p>Neither the central Department nor its executive agencies hold information on the earnings of outsourced workers. However, the Department for Transport Total Facilities Management contract with Interserve FM requires all staff employed by the service provider to be paid at least the National Living Wage. DVLA believe, following contact with Telereal Trillium, that no staff working on their contract receive below the National Living Wage.</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 30/01/2019 16:31:27 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead

1045519

registered interest
date	21/01/2019
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Cycling: Safety
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what recent steps he has taken to increase the safety of people that use bicycles.
tabling member constituency	Southampton, Itchen
tabling member printed	Royston Smith
uin	210578
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/04/2019 answer text <p>This Government is determined to make cycling and walking safer and easier, which is why the Department for Transport undertook a major cycling and walking safety review in 2018. The response to the review, which was published on 22 November and is available at <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/speeches/governments-response-to-the-cycling-walking-investment-strategy-safety-review" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/speeches/governments-response-to-the-cycling-walking-investment-strategy-safety-review</a>, included a detailed two-year action plan.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 03/04/2019 09:45:04 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	4478 label Biography information for Royston Smith