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1460588

registered interest
date	27/04/2022
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Public Transport: Refugees
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they will reimburse local transport authorities for additional costs incurred when Ukrainian refugees apply for and are granted a (1) Freedom Pass, (2) Oyster 60 Plus card, (3) Zip Oyster card, or (4) other similar travel concessions.
tabling member printed	Baroness Randerson
uin	HL8004
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/04/2022 answer text <p>Within London, transport is devolved to the Mayor of London, including decision-making responsibility about any concessions offered.</p><p>Local Transport Authorities outside of London can also choose to introduce further concessions if they choose.</p> answering member printed Baroness Vere of Norbiton question first answered 28/04/2022 10:43:42 answering member 4580 label Biography information for Baroness Vere of Norbiton
tabling member	4230 label Biography information for Baroness Randerson

1460322

registered interest
date	26/04/2022
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency: Standards
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 causes for the reported backlogs at the DVLA; and what steps he is taking to resolve these issues.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	160437
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/04/2022 answer text <p>The quickest and easiest way to make an application to the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA) is by using its extensive suite of online services. There are no delays in successful online applications and customers should receive their documents within a few days.</p><p>The delays in processing paper applications were significantly exacerbated by six months of industrial action by the Public and Commercial Services union, which was targeted at the areas that would have the most impact on the motoring public. Without this industrial action, the backlog at the DVLA would by now have been cleared.</p><p>To reduce waiting times for customers, the DVLA has introduced additional online services, recruited more staff, increased overtime working and has opened new customer service centres in Swansea and Birmingham.</p><p>These measures are having a positive impact and vehicle paper applications are now being processed within normal timescales as are straightforward vocational driving licence applications and renewals. The DVLA is on track to return to normal turnaround times on all non-medical paper driving licence applications by the end of May.</p> answering member constituency Copeland answering member printed Trudy Harrison grouped question UIN 160438 question first answered 28/04/2022 08:59:57 answering member 4593 label Biography information for Trudy Harrison
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

1460327

registered interest
date	26/04/2022
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency: Standards
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what discussions he has had with the DVLA on reports that staff have been off work on full pay in the context of an application backlog.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	160438
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/04/2022 answer text <p>The quickest and easiest way to make an application to the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA) is by using its extensive suite of online services. There are no delays in successful online applications and customers should receive their documents within a few days.</p><p>The delays in processing paper applications were significantly exacerbated by six months of industrial action by the Public and Commercial Services union, which was targeted at the areas that would have the most impact on the motoring public. Without this industrial action, the backlog at the DVLA would by now have been cleared.</p><p>To reduce waiting times for customers, the DVLA has introduced additional online services, recruited more staff, increased overtime working and has opened new customer service centres in Swansea and Birmingham.</p><p>These measures are having a positive impact and vehicle paper applications are now being processed within normal timescales as are straightforward vocational driving licence applications and renewals. The DVLA is on track to return to normal turnaround times on all non-medical paper driving licence applications by the end of May.</p> answering member constituency Copeland answering member printed Trudy Harrison grouped question UIN 160437 question first answered 28/04/2022 08:59:57 answering member 4593 label Biography information for Trudy Harrison
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

1460335

registered interest
date	26/04/2022
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Restoring Your Railway Fund
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what progress his Department has made on reviewing bids by local authorities for the Restoring Your Railways Fund.
tabling member constituency	Rutland and Melton
tabling member printed	Alicia Kearns
uin	160563
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/04/2022 answer text <p>The £500m Restoring Your Railway Fund is supporting over 45 schemes at different stages of development with funding and advice. The Department received a Strategic Outline Business Case for the Melton Mowbray to Nottingham proposal in August 2021. The Secretary of State for Transport and I are considering next steps for projects, including Melton Mowbray to Nottingham, with a decision on the next tranche to progress anticipated soon.</p> answering member constituency Aldridge-Brownhills answering member printed Wendy Morton question first answered 28/04/2022 08:12:27 answering member 4358 label Biography information for Wendy Morton
tabling member	4805 label Biography information for Alicia Kearns

1460336

registered interest
date	26/04/2022
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Railways: Freight
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 support investment in sustainable freight locomotives.
tabling member constituency	York Central
tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
uin	160513
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/04/2022 answer text <p>Our Transport Decarbonisation Plan (TDP) set out our ambition to remove all diesel-only trains (passenger and freight) from the network by 2040. We will continue to work closely alongside operators and manufacturers on deploying the most appropriate traction technology, this includes looking at alternate fuels including renewable hydro-treated vegetable oil (HVO), hydrogen, battery or bi-mode and hybrid traction technology. Trials are currently being undertaken by freight operators to assess the use of renewable HVO as a short-term replacement for traditional diesel used in the interim during transition to zero emission alternatives.</p><p>In both the TDP and the William Shapps Plan for Rail we committed to introducing a rail freight growth target and to incentivising the early take up of low carbon traction to help operators have the confidence they need to invest in green technologies.</p> answering member constituency Aldridge-Brownhills answering member printed Wendy Morton question first answered 28/04/2022 08:40:53 answering member 4358 label Biography information for Wendy Morton
tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell

1460337

registered interest
date	26/04/2022
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Railways: Freight
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 (a) decarbonise and (b) increase efficiency in the rail freight sector.
tabling member constituency	York Central
tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
uin	160514
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/04/2022 answer text <p>Pursuant to the answer of 27/04/2022 to question 160513 “To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps he is taking to support investment in sustainable freight locomotives.” Government remains committed to its ambition of removing all diesel-only trains (passenger and freight) from the network by 2040, as set out in our Transport Decarbonisation Plan (TDP).</p><p>We are working closely with industry to better understand opportunities for decarbonisation, including electrification, renewable hydro-treated vegetable oil (HVO), hydrogen, battery or bi-mode traction technology. For example, in 2021/22, Government funded a Connected Places Catapult-led R&amp;D project to identify low-emission technologies for use in the rail freight estate towards stimulating innovation in the sector. We will also build extra capacity on our rail network to meet growing passenger and freight demand, supporting modal shift and incentivising the take up of low carbon traction for rail freight.</p><p>Regarding increased efficiency in the rail freight sector, Government is committed to unlocking the benefits rail freight can deliver by working towards maximising utilisation of the network and increasing rail freight’s role in supporting resilient supply chains We continue to work closely with Network Rail (NR) and Freight Operating Companies (FOCs) to increase rail freight capacity, including: increasing the number of train paths available from Felixstowe Port and through the running of longer and heavier trains. We have also committed to introducing a rail freight growth target, which will reflect the sectors own business growth ambitions.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Aldridge-Brownhills answering member printed Wendy Morton question first answered 28/04/2022 08:21:45 answering member 4358 label Biography information for Wendy Morton
tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell

1460338

registered interest
date	26/04/2022
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Railways: Freight
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps he will take help improve rail freight capacity.
tabling member constituency	York Central
tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
uin	160515
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/04/2022 answer text <p>Government continues to explore improving rail freight capacity across the network. We remain committed to publishing the Rail Network Enhancements Pipeline (RNEP) update, and we have also taken steps to improve rail freight capacity by increasing the number of train paths available from and to Felixstowe Port. There have also been a range of longer and heavier freight trains which have been authorised to run on the network. In addition, we have also committed to introducing a rail freight growth target, which will reflect the sectors own business growth ambitions.</p><p>There have, in recent months, been a range of new rail freight services launched; from Liverpool and Immingham Ports and from Doncaster to Mossend.</p> answering member constituency Aldridge-Brownhills answering member printed Wendy Morton question first answered 28/04/2022 08:14:05 answering member 4358 label Biography information for Wendy Morton
tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell

1460339

registered interest
date	26/04/2022
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Railways: Freight
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 proportion freight that will transfer from road to rail in each of the next five years.
tabling member constituency	York Central
tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
uin	160516
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/04/2022 answer text <p>The Government is fully committed to growing rail freight and unlocking the economic and environmental benefits that the sector can deliver. We continue to encourage and incentivise modal shift from road to rail through the Mode Shift Revenue Support Scheme (MSRS), which financially supports the carriage of freight by rail and water on routes where road haulage has a financial advantage. The £20m scheme delivers high value for money and in 2020/21 removed around 900,000 HGV lorries off our congested road network, saving 58,000 tonnes of CO2 emissions.</p><p>Furthermore, in both the William-Shapps Plan for Rail and the Transport Decarbonisation Plan, Government committed to introducing a rail freight growth target which will contribute towards broader Government objectives of modal shift.</p> answering member constituency Aldridge-Brownhills answering member printed Wendy Morton question first answered 28/04/2022 08:50:26 answering member 4358 label Biography information for Wendy Morton
tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell

1460340

registered interest
date	26/04/2022
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Roads: Freight
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 tackle (a) climate, (b) workforce and (c) capacity issues in the road haulage sector.
tabling member constituency	York Central
tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
uin	160517
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/04/2022 answer text <p>The Government recognises the important contribution that the road haulage sector and its workforce make to the nation’s economy and is working with the industry to support change and improvements across all three areas.</p> answering member constituency Copeland answering member printed Trudy Harrison question first answered 28/04/2022 08:11:07 answering member 4593 label Biography information for Trudy Harrison
tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell

1460341

registered interest
date	26/04/2022
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Railways: Research
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will provide support for the future of the rail industry through a research and development bicentenary challenge for the rail sector.
tabling member constituency	York Central
tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
uin	160518
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/04/2022 answer text <p>The 200 year anniversary is a nationally important moment to mark and celebrate. The DfT will work with the whole industry to make this a special event for workers and passengers alike.</p><p>We will look for opportunities to consider how we can promote research and development in rail during the bicentenary. The DfT currently works with Innovate UK and the Rail Safety and Standards Board to deliver research, development, and innovation programmes. One of the commitments of the William-Shapps Plan for Rail is a thirty-year strategy which will provide a clear, long-term plan for transforming the railways to strengthen collaboration, unlock efficiencies, and incentivise innovation.</p> answering member constituency Aldridge-Brownhills answering member printed Wendy Morton question first answered 28/04/2022 08:48:57 answering member 4358 label Biography information for Wendy Morton
tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell