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1586423

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date	17/02/2023
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Bus Services: Suffolk
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 adequacy of funding for bus services in Suffolk.
tabling member constituency	Ipswich
tabling member printed	Tom Hunt
uin	147236
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/02/2023 answer text <p>The Government pays over £200 million directly to bus operators every year through the Bus Service Operators Grant (BSOG) to help keep fares down and maintain a larger network than would otherwise be possible. The Government also provides £42 million annually in BSOG funding to Local Transport Authorities, of which Suffolk County Council receives almost £615,000, to fund socially necessary bus services.</p><p> </p><p>Since 1 January, the majority of single bus journeys in England outside London have been capped at £2 thanks to Government support via the Bus Fare Cap Grant. The initial phase of the scheme, through to 31 March, is backed by up to £60 million. On 17 February, we announced that we will provide up to £75 million to extend the £2 bus fare cap until 30 June 2023</p><p> </p><p>This takes total Government funding to over £2 billion in emergency and recovery funding to Local Transport Authorities and bus operators since March 2020, of which Suffolk County Council has been allocated over £5 million. This is in addition to the funding we have provided directly to bus operators to maintain bus services through this route.</p><p> </p><p>Suffolk County Council has also been allocated £824,737 in capacity and capability funding for bus service improvements for the period 2021/22 to 2024/25. This funding is intended to support them with employing dedicated resource for the next three years to help deliver their Bus Service Improvement Plans and Enhanced Partnerships.</p> answering member constituency North West Durham answering member printed Mr Richard Holden grouped question UIN 147235 question first answered 27/02/2023 14:42:22 answering member 4813 label Biography information for Mr Richard Holden
tabling member	4771 label Biography information for Tom Hunt

1586425

registered interest
date	17/02/2023
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Travel: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 9 February 2023 to Question 140382 on Travel: Finance, what the (a) actual and (b) predicted (i) capital and (ii) revenue funding was for active travel in each financial financial year between 2020-21 and 2024-25; and what the purpose is of each budget line.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Brightside and Hillsborough
tabling member printed	Gill Furniss
uin	147238
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/02/2023 answer text <p><strong> </strong></p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Year</p></td><td><p>Capital (£ million)</p></td><td><p>Revenue (£ million)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2020-21</p></td><td><p>192</p></td><td><p>115</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2021-22</p></td><td><p>209</p></td><td><p>70</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2022-23</p></td><td><p>200 (predicted)</p></td><td><p>69 (actual) 2 (predicted)</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>The table above outlines actual dedicated funding for active travel for the period 2020/21 to 2022/23 unless indicated as predicted funding. These figures do not include funding from wider sources within the Department such as the City Region Sustainable Transport Settlements (CRSTS). The Autumn Statement of 17 November confirmed the Department for Transport’s overall funding levels for 2023-24 and 2024-25. The Department is currently considering the budget for active travel as part of its examination of all future spending plans following that Statement.</p><p> </p><p>Capital funding typically funds walking and cycling infrastructure programmes such as the Active Travel Fund. Revenue funding supports a range of programmes to enable more people to walk, wheel and cycle including the Capability Fund and Bikeability.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 22/02/2023 10:56:45 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	4571 label Biography information for Gill Furniss

1586426

registered interest
date	17/02/2023
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Cycling and Walking: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to the policy paper entitled Cycling and walking plan for England, published on 27 July 2020, whether he plans to spend the £2 billion of ringfenced funding for active travel in the period between 2020-21 to 2024-25; and with reference to the policy paper entitled The second cycling and walking investment strategy, published on 6 July 2022, whether he plans to spend the £1.298 billion of ringfenced funding for cycling and walking in the period between 2020-21 to 2024-25.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Brightside and Hillsborough
tabling member printed	Gill Furniss
uin	147239
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/02/2023 answer text <p>The Government expects to invest over £850 million in active travel between 2020-21 and 2022-23 – a record amount of funding. This is in addition to other sources of funding such as the City Region Sustainable Transport Settlements (CRSTS). CRSTS delivery plans were published in July 2022 for seven eligible city regions and include details of active travel elements.</p><p> </p><p>The Autumn Statement of 17 November confirmed the Department for Transport’s overall funding levels for 2023-24 and 2024-25. The Department is currently considering the budget for active travel as part of its examination of all future spending plans following that Statement.</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 22/02/2023 10:53:58 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	4571 label Biography information for Gill Furniss

1586427

registered interest
date	17/02/2023
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Cycling and Walking: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how much funding his Department's cycling and walking investment strategy active travel investment model predicts will be needed to achieve his Department's objective to (a) double cycling and (b) increasing walking trips by 2025; and if he will publish the (i) results and (ii) supporting evidence from that model.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Brightside and Hillsborough
tabling member printed	Gill Furniss
uin	147240
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/02/2023 answer text <p>The actual amount will depend on a wide variety of factors including the high degree of uncertainty over the long-term impact of the pandemic on walking and cycling stages.</p><p> </p><p>The publication of this part of the research has been delayed as a result of the pandemic and other pressures. Much has changed since it was carried out, and the Department is considering next steps.</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 22/02/2023 10:51:58 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	4571 label Biography information for Gill Furniss

1586428

registered interest
date	17/02/2023
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Bus Services: Fares
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what estimate he has made of the number of bus services that will cease following the end of the £2 fare cap on 31 March.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Heeley
tabling member printed	Louise Haigh
uin	147241
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/02/2023 answer text <p>On Friday 17 February, we announced that we will provide up to £75 million to extend the £2 bus fare cap until 30 June 2023.</p><p> </p><p>To help maintain bus services, we also announced on 17 February that we will provide £80 million to extend the Bus Recovery Grant until 30 June 2023. This will help to continue to protect vital bus services and take Government support for the bus sector to over £2 billion since March 2020.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency North West Durham answering member printed Mr Richard Holden question first answered 22/02/2023 10:32:30 answering member 4813 label Biography information for Mr Richard Holden
tabling member	4473 label Biography information for Louise Haigh

1586429

registered interest
date	17/02/2023
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Bus Services: Fares
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will continue with the £2 bus fare policy beyond March 2023.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Heeley
tabling member printed	Louise Haigh
uin	147242
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/02/2023 answer text <p>On Friday 17 February, we announced that we will provide up to £75 million to extend the £2 bus fare cap until 30 June 2023.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency North West Durham answering member printed Mr Richard Holden question first answered 22/02/2023 10:43:56 answering member 4813 label Biography information for Mr Richard Holden
tabling member	4473 label Biography information for Louise Haigh

1586430

registered interest
date	17/02/2023
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Travel: Finance
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 Active Travel in the financial year 2020-21.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Brightside and Hillsborough
tabling member printed	Gill Furniss
uin	147243
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/02/2023 answer text <p>The Department spent £307 million on dedicated active travel funding in 2020/21. This figure does not include funding from wider sources within the Department.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 22/02/2023 10:48:18 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	4571 label Biography information for Gill Furniss

1586445

registered interest
date	17/02/2023
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Trams: Greater Manchester
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 30 June 2022 to Question 25813 on Trams: Greater Manchester, what recent progress has been made on assessing the strategic outline business case for the Bolton to Radcliffe tram connection.
tabling member constituency	Bolton South East
tabling member printed	Yasmin Qureshi
uin	146867
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/02/2023 answer text <p>In November 2020, the Government awarded £50,000 of Restoring Your Railway Ideas funding to Transport for Greater Manchester to develop a Strategic Outline Business Case to reinstate passenger services on the Bolton-Radcliffe/Bolton-Bury line. The scheme’s Strategic Outline Business Case (SOBC) is currently under consideration by the Department.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency North West Durham answering member printed Mr Richard Holden question first answered 22/02/2023 10:58:38 answering member 4813 label Biography information for Mr Richard Holden
tabling member	3924 label Biography information for Yasmin Qureshi

1586455

registered interest
date	17/02/2023
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Electric Scooters
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will make an assessment with the Minister for Women and Equalities of the potential merits of requiring e-scooters to use a single generic sound for an audio vehicle alert to help support people who are visually impaired.
tabling member constituency	York Outer
tabling member printed	Julian Sturdy
uin	146947
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/02/2023 answer text <p>The Department has put in place measures to improve safety for disabled people and people with sight loss, such as requiring ​all e-scooters in trials to have a bell or a horn so that they are audible. In addition, some operators in trial areas are testing Acoustic Vehicle Alerting Systems (AVASs). These systems generate sound for electric vehicles to improve the safety of vulnerable road users. I recently visited UCL’s PEARL (Person-Environment-Activity Research Laboratory) where e-scooter AVAS testing is taking place, to learn more about the potential merits of this technology.</p><p> </p><p>The Department will continue to work directly with groups representing individuals who are visually impaired, to review options for regulations; and it will consult publicly before any new arrangements come into force.</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 27/02/2023 14:30:44 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	4079 label Biography information for Julian Sturdy

1586467

registered interest
date	17/02/2023
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Bus Services: Disability
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what recent progress his Department has been made on ensuring all buses have audio announcements.
tabling member constituency	York Outer
tabling member printed	Julian Sturdy
uin	146949
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/02/2023 answer text <p>We have required buses funded through the government’s Zero Emission Bus Regional Areas (ZEBRA) scheme to provide audible and visible information as standard.</p><p>We also plan to require the provision of audible and visible information on local bus and coach services across Great Britain, and intend to introduce the Accessible Information Regulations shortly.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency North West Durham answering member printed Mr Richard Holden question first answered 22/02/2023 12:28:27 answering member 4813 label Biography information for Mr Richard Holden
tabling member	4079 label Biography information for Julian Sturdy