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1459289

registered interest
date	21/04/2022
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Trams: Nottingham
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether his Department plans to provide funding for tram concessions in Nottingham, similar to the funding provided to bus concessions in that city.
tabling member constituency	Mansfield
tabling member printed	Ben Bradley
uin	157495
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/04/2022 answer text <p>The English National Concessionary Travel Scheme (ENCTS) provides free off-peak bus travel to those with eligible disabilities and those of state pension age to ensure that no older or disabled person in England need be prevented from bus travel by cost alone.</p><p> </p><p>Funding for this is provided through the Department of Levelling Up, Housing and Communities’ Revenue Support Grant: a Grant that supports a wide range of activities to ensure that each local transport authority receives the funding that they need. This funding is not ringfenced to enable local authorities to make spending decisions that more closely align with local needs and circumstances.</p><p> </p><p>This means that local authorities can use this funding to provide further discretionary concessions in addition to buses. Nottingham City Council has already chosen to extend this to their tram system.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Copeland answering member printed Trudy Harrison grouped question UIN 157496 157497 question first answered 27/04/2022 13:22:37 answering member 4593 label Biography information for Trudy Harrison
tabling member	4663 label Biography information for Ben Bradley

1459291

registered interest
date	21/04/2022
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Trams: Nottingham
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether his Department has made an assessment of the potential merits of providing funding for concessionary fares, as provided to Nottingham's bus service, to the tram service in that city.
tabling member constituency	Mansfield
tabling member printed	Ben Bradley
uin	157496
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/04/2022 answer text <p>The English National Concessionary Travel Scheme (ENCTS) provides free off-peak bus travel to those with eligible disabilities and those of state pension age to ensure that no older or disabled person in England need be prevented from bus travel by cost alone.</p><p> </p><p>Funding for this is provided through the Department of Levelling Up, Housing and Communities’ Revenue Support Grant: a Grant that supports a wide range of activities to ensure that each local transport authority receives the funding that they need. This funding is not ringfenced to enable local authorities to make spending decisions that more closely align with local needs and circumstances.</p><p> </p><p>This means that local authorities can use this funding to provide further discretionary concessions in addition to buses. Nottingham City Council has already chosen to extend this to their tram system.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Copeland answering member printed Trudy Harrison grouped question UIN 157495 157497 question first answered 27/04/2022 13:22:37 answering member 4593 label Biography information for Trudy Harrison
tabling member	4663 label Biography information for Ben Bradley

1459292

registered interest
date	21/04/2022
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Trams: Nottingham
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether his Department has made an assessment of the potential merits of providing funding for concessionary fares, as provided to Nottingham's bus service, to the tram service in that city.
tabling member constituency	Mansfield
tabling member printed	Ben Bradley
uin	157497
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/04/2022 answer text <p>The English National Concessionary Travel Scheme (ENCTS) provides free off-peak bus travel to those with eligible disabilities and those of state pension age to ensure that no older or disabled person in England need be prevented from bus travel by cost alone.</p><p> </p><p>Funding for this is provided through the Department of Levelling Up, Housing and Communities’ Revenue Support Grant: a Grant that supports a wide range of activities to ensure that each local transport authority receives the funding that they need. This funding is not ringfenced to enable local authorities to make spending decisions that more closely align with local needs and circumstances.</p><p> </p><p>This means that local authorities can use this funding to provide further discretionary concessions in addition to buses. Nottingham City Council has already chosen to extend this to their tram system.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Copeland answering member printed Trudy Harrison grouped question UIN 157495 157496 question first answered 27/04/2022 13:22:37 answering member 4593 label Biography information for Trudy Harrison
tabling member	4663 label Biography information for Ben Bradley

1366442

registered interest
date	05/11/2021
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	East Midlands Rail Franchise
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps his Department is taking to help ensure that East Midlands Railways is able to access the additional rolling stock set out in the franchise agreement.
tabling member constituency	Mansfield
tabling member printed	Ben Bradley
uin	70300
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/11/2021 answer text <p>The additional rolling stock for regional and local services cannot be released from its present operator until that operator introduces its fleet of new trains. Officials are in regular contact with East Midlands Railway and the other train operators involved with this in order to ensure that the changes take place as quickly as possible, whilst not putting the provision of existing services at risk.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Daventry answering member printed Chris Heaton-Harris question first answered 10/11/2021 15:18:24 answering member 3977 label Biography information for Chris Heaton-Harris
tabling member	4663 label Biography information for Ben Bradley

1357059

registered interest
date	20/09/2021
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Large Goods Vehicle Drivers: Driving Licences
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether his Department has made an assessment of the potential merits of reinstating HGV licences for drivers who have recently retired to help support key industries experiencing driver shortages.
tabling member constituency	Mansfield
tabling member printed	Ben Bradley
uin	51825
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/09/2021 answer text <p>The Government takes road safety very seriously and the UK has some of the safest roads in the world. It is important that drivers with Category C and C+E entitlement on their driving licences fully meet the requirements for those returning to HGV driving. This includes a driver medical and renewing their Driver Certificate of Professional Competence (CPC).</p><p> </p><p>A joint DfT/industry letter will be sent to HGV licence holders this week to encourage those who have left the profession to return.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Copeland answering member printed Trudy Harrison question first answered 23/09/2021 15:08:27 answering member 4593 label Biography information for Trudy Harrison
tabling member	4663 label Biography information for Ben Bradley

1351213

registered interest
date	18/08/2021
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Roads: Litter
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 potential merits of using existing cameras on the Highway network to enforce littering laws and in issue fines.
tabling member constituency	Mansfield
tabling member printed	Ben Bradley
uin	41197
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/09/2021 answer text <p>We want to see a road network free from litter, and we agree that there is more we can all do to keep the Strategic Road Network (SRN), the motorways and principal A-roads managed by National Highways (formerly Highways England), clear of litter. National Highways continuously seeks to improve the operational effectiveness of litter picking and influencing littering behaviour through communication campaigns and raising awareness of the increased possibility of being caught littering and fixed penalty notices.</p><p>National Highways is keen to use technology to help ensure our strategic roads are part of a modern network that supports a modern country. It is in ongoing discussions with technology companies and Litter Authorities about how technology and other enforcement tools can help reduce littering at the source. Footage from cameras can already be used as evidence of roadside littering and it is for the Local Authority to determine whether there is sufficient evidence to enforce fixed penalty notices or prosecute. National Highways is working to improve the evidence it provides to Local Authorities to assist them in prosecution.</p> answering member constituency Redditch answering member printed Rachel Maclean question first answered 07/09/2021 09:39:26 answering member 4668 label Biography information for Rachel Maclean
tabling member	4663 label Biography information for Ben Bradley

1307328

registered interest
date	12/04/2021
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Local Pinch Point Fund
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether applications made to the Pinch Points Fund will be automatically resubmitted to the Levelling Up Fund.
tabling member constituency	Mansfield
tabling member printed	Ben Bradley
uin	179490
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/04/2021 answer text <p>The £4.8 billion Levelling Up Fund announced at the 2020 Spending Review will invest in local infrastructure that has a visible impact on people and their communities, including investing in local transport schemes across the UK.</p><p>The Fund will supersede existing local growth funding streams in England including the Local Pinch Points Fund. Projects previously submitted to the Local Pinch Points Fund will not be automatically resubmitted into the Levelling Up Fund.</p><p>Department officials have written to local authorities asking them whether they would like any Local Pinch Points Fund Expression(s) of Interest submitted to the DfT to be considered for funding through the Levelling Up Fund in 2021/22 and local authorities in England are encouraged to consider prioritising these projects for the first round of the Fund. These will be subject to the same assessment process as set out in the technical guidance published on the UK Government website on 26 March.</p> answering member constituency Redditch answering member printed Rachel Maclean question first answered 19/04/2021 14:47:35 answering member 4668 label Biography information for Rachel Maclean
tabling member	4663 label Biography information for Ben Bradley

1147429

registered interest
date	01/10/2019
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Roads: Mansfield
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what funding he has allocated to repair roads in Mansfield constituency in the last year for which information is available.
tabling member constituency	Mansfield
tabling member printed	Ben Bradley
uin	292991
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/10/2019 answer text <p>Department for Transport funding for local highway maintenance is allocated by formula to local highway authorities at the upper tier, to county councils or unitary authorities, so it is not available by Parliamentary constituency.</p><p> </p><p>In 2019/20 the Department is allocating £18.423 million to Nottinghamshire County Council for local highway maintenance. Of this, £12.006 million is the Highways Maintenance Block Needs Element, £2.501 million is Highways</p><p>Maintenance Block Incentive Element and £3.916 million is Integrated Transport Block funding. In addition, the Department allocated £0.859 million through the Pothole Action Fund and Flood Resilience Fund for 2019/20.</p> answering member constituency Mid Norfolk answering member printed George Freeman question first answered 08/10/2019 09:48:46 answering member 4020 label Biography information for George Freeman
tabling member	4663 label Biography information for Ben Bradley

1140866

registered interest
date	22/07/2019
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Railways: Concessions
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 number of people aged 16 to 18 years old who will benefit from the proposed introduction of a new discount railcard for that age group in (a) Mansfield constituency, (b) Nottinghamshire and (c) the East Midlands.
tabling member constituency	Mansfield
tabling member printed	Ben Bradley
uin	280380
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/07/2019 answer text <p>All young people aged 16 – 17 are eligible to benefit from the card in these regions, and market research indicates that approximately 2/3 of young people may take advantage in the East Midlands region.</p> answering member constituency Harrogate and Knaresborough answering member printed Andrew Jones question first answered 24/07/2019 15:12:05 answering member 3996 label Biography information for Andrew Jones
tabling member	4663 label Biography information for Ben Bradley