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1174835

registered interest
date	30/01/2020
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether he has plans to undertake a review of the status of the Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency’s Trading Fund.
tabling member constituency	Easington
tabling member printed	Grahame Morris
uin	10356
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/02/2020 answer text <p>The Government’s approach to public bodies’ reform includes robust tailored reviews led by Departments with Cabinet Office oversight and challenge.</p><p> </p><p>A tailored review of the Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA) is in the early stages of planning. This will include consideration of the control and governance arrangements in place for the DVSA and will make recommendations for improvement. It is expected that the tailored review will include consideration of its trading fund status.</p> answering member constituency Mid Norfolk answering member printed George Freeman question first answered 04/02/2020 11:08:40 answering member 4020 label Biography information for George Freeman
tabling member	3973 label Biography information for Grahame Morris

1174836

registered interest
date	30/01/2020
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Driving Tests
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many driving test centres face closure; and where those test centres are located.
tabling member constituency	Easington
tabling member printed	Grahame Morris
uin	10357
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/02/2020 answer text <p>The Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA) puts its customers at the heart of the services it provides. The agency keeps its operational estate under continuous review to ensure it delivers the highest level of service most efficiently. If the DVSA needs to review the size of its operational estate, it will first seek ministerial agreement to do so. It will then ensure it informs staff and stakeholders, and keeps them informed while working through any change.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Mid Norfolk answering member printed George Freeman question first answered 04/02/2020 11:00:47 answering member 4020 label Biography information for George Freeman
tabling member	3973 label Biography information for Grahame Morris

1174837

registered interest
date	30/01/2020
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Driving Tests
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if his Department will consult (a) the devolved administrations and (b) individual local hon. Members on planned driving test centre closures.
tabling member constituency	Easington
tabling member printed	Grahame Morris
uin	10358
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/02/2020 answer text <p>The Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA) has in place well-established criteria for the establishment of driving test centres. It will continue to work within these parameters. These do not currently involve the devolved administrations or individual Members.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Mid Norfolk answering member printed George Freeman question first answered 04/02/2020 11:06:10 answering member 4020 label Biography information for George Freeman
tabling member	3973 label Biography information for Grahame Morris

1174838

registered interest
date	30/01/2020
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Driving Tests
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether an equality impact assessment will be conducted prior to any driving test centre closure.
tabling member constituency	Easington
tabling member printed	Grahame Morris
uin	10359
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/02/2020 answer text <p>As a public body, the Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency is obliged to take account of its Public Sector Equality Duty when exercising its functions.</p><p>It does that now and will continue to do so in the future.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Mid Norfolk answering member printed George Freeman question first answered 04/02/2020 11:02:54 answering member 4020 label Biography information for George Freeman
tabling member	3973 label Biography information for Grahame Morris

1174869

registered interest
date	30/01/2020
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Roads: Accidents
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what progress the road collision investigation project led by the RAC Foundation has made; and what plans he has to extend that scheme to Wales.
tabling member constituency	Newport East
tabling member printed	Jessica Morden
uin	10332
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/02/2020 answer text <p>The Road Collision Investigation Project is ongoing. Progress to date includes:</p><p> </p><ul><li><p>A report on <em>Models and methods for collision analysis </em>giving the rationale for taking a systems approach to collision investigation.</p></li></ul><p> </p><ul><li><p><em>RCIP Feasibility Study</em> carried out by the Transport Research Laboratory to assess the validity of the AcciMap framework</p><p> </p><p>This work is being led by the RAC Foundation, in collaboration with and supported by the Department for Transport (DfT), Highways England (HE), the National Police Chiefs Council (NPCC) and other national and local organisations.</p><p> </p><p>Three police force analysts are all using the Collision Reporting and Sharing System managed and funded by the Department for Transport - no Welsh forces use this system at present, though it would be open for them to do so. The learning from the project will be published in due course and will be available to all of central and local government (including devolved administrations), and all GB police forces.</p><p> </p><p> </p></li></ul><p> </p> answering member constituency Mid Norfolk answering member printed George Freeman question first answered 04/02/2020 11:13:43 answering member 4020 label Biography information for George Freeman
tabling member	1548 label Biography information for Jessica Morden

1174888

registered interest
date	30/01/2020
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Taxis: Standards
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, when he plans to issue new statutory taxi hire standards.
tabling member constituency	Ilford North
tabling member printed	Wes Streeting
uin	10420
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/02/2020 answer text <p>We will shortly be issuing Statutory Taxi and Private Hire Standards to licensing authorities, on protecting passengers and updated best practice guidance for other matters that will follow later this year.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Mid Norfolk answering member printed George Freeman question first answered 04/02/2020 15:18:48 answering member 4020 label Biography information for George Freeman
tabling member	4504 label Biography information for Wes Streeting

1173836

registered interest
date	28/01/2020
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Hitachi Rail Europe: Redundancy
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether he has met with representatives of Hitachi Rail to discuss potential job losses at its factory.
tabling member constituency	Stockton North
tabling member printed	Alex Cunningham
uin	9009
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/02/2020 answer text <p>The Secretary of State for Transport has not met with representatives of Hitachi Rail to discuss any specific matters in respect of their facility at Newton Aycliffe. Officials at the Department remain fully engaged with Hitachi on a regular basis with regard to current and future projects.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Daventry answering member printed Chris Heaton-Harris question first answered 04/02/2020 16:32:37 answering member 3977 label Biography information for Chris Heaton-Harris
tabling member	4122 label Biography information for Alex Cunningham

1173901

registered interest
date	28/01/2020
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Transport: Midlands
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how much funding the Government has allocated to transport programmes throughout the Midlands.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Edgbaston
tabling member printed	Preet Kaur Gill
uin	9106
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/02/2020 answer text <p>Figures on public sector expenditure at national and regional levels are part of the Government’s Country and Regional Analysis (CRA) statistics.</p><p> </p><p>The statistics include spend on transport by all public sector organisations including the Department for Transport, Local Authorities, Public Corporations (in the case of transport, this is mainly spend by London Underground) and other government departments including devolved administrations.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>When comparing expenditure across regions a number of factors should be considered. The benefits from spend on transport interventions will often accrue to passengers far beyond the residents of the immediate local area or region. This is particularly the case for spending on the railways which connect cities and regions across the country and deliver broader benefits beyond the region concerned. Inevitably allocations are not always precise.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Table 1: Public expenditure on all transport in the Midlands, by all public sector bodies (<em>£ million)</em></p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>East Midlands</p></td><td><p>West Midlands</p></td><td><p>Midlands total</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014/15</p></td><td><p>1,023</p></td><td><p>1,459</p></td><td><p>2,482</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015/16</p></td><td><p>1,179</p></td><td><p>1,898</p></td><td><p>3,077</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016/17</p></td><td><p>1,024</p></td><td><p>1,871</p></td><td><p>2,895</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017/18</p></td><td><p>1,083</p></td><td><p>2,002</p></td><td><p>3,085</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2018/19</p></td><td><p>1,286</p></td><td><p>2,758</p></td><td><p>4,044</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>These expenditure values are in nominal terms and have not been adjusted for inflation.</p><p> </p><p><em>Source: Table A.8e - </em><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/country-and-regional-analysis-2019" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/country-and-regional-analysis-2019</a></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Mid Norfolk answering member printed George Freeman question first answered 04/02/2020 16:41:03 answering member 4020 label Biography information for George Freeman
tabling member	4603 label Biography information for Preet Kaur Gill

1173960

registered interest
date	28/01/2020
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Railways: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how much funding the Government has allocated for each financial year of the Beeching Reversal Fund to (a) Scotland and (b) the UK; and what the Barnett consequentials are for that funding.
tabling member constituency	Kilmarnock and Loudoun
tabling member printed	Alan Brown
uin	9081
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/02/2020 answer text <p>The UK Government’s announcement is for £500m funding to support railway re-openings within the territory for which it has funding responsibility (England and Wales). It has no immediate implications for DfT’s spending limits, and therefore none for funding of railways in the Devolved Administrations.</p><p> </p><p>The final profile and exact funding arrangements for the reversing Beeching Fund have not yet been agreed. Final decisions on funding will be made at the Spending Review in the usual way.</p><p> </p><p>Her Majesty’s Government is clear about the benefit of pan UK connections and is, for example, supporting the examination of the potential reopening of the Edinburgh- Carlisle ‘Waverley line’ as part of the Borders Growth Deal.</p> answering member constituency Daventry answering member printed Chris Heaton-Harris question first answered 04/02/2020 16:37:57 answering member 3977 label Biography information for Chris Heaton-Harris
tabling member	4470 label Biography information for Alan Brown

1173988

registered interest
date	28/01/2020
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 steps he is taking to improve the experience of wheelchair users on flights from UK airports.
tabling member constituency	East Kilbride, Strathaven and Lesmahagow
tabling member printed	Dr Lisa Cameron
uin	9065
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/02/2020 answer text <p>The Government wants to ensure equal access to air travel for all. As part of Aviation 2050 green paper the government consulted on delivering a long-term aim, which will enable disabled passengers to travel in their own wheelchair in the cabin. The Government is working closely with key industry groups like The Safe Transportation of Wheelchairs (STOW) Group, Flying Disabled and the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) to deliver on this ambition.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Blackpool North and Cleveleys answering member printed Paul Maynard question first answered 04/02/2020 16:30:26 answering member 3926 label Biography information for Paul Maynard
tabling member	4412 label Biography information for Dr Lisa Cameron