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637193

registered interest
date	15/11/2016
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Department for Transport: Sick Leave
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many working days were lost due to mental illness in his Department in each of the last three years.
tabling member constituency	North Norfolk
tabling member printed	Norman Lamb
uin	53076
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/11/2016 answer text <p>Stress is the biggest contributor to the category of ‘mental health’ illness. Whilst it affects relatively few members of staff compared to other categories for sickness absence, by its nature a significant number of working days can be lost by those with mental health illness.</p><p> </p><p>The Department for Transport and its agencies have lost the following number of working days due to mental health illness in the last three financial years:</p><p> </p><p>2013/14 – 27908</p><p>2014/15 – 32946</p><p>2015/16 – 28895</p><p> </p> answering member constituency South Holland and The Deepings answering member printed Mr John Hayes question first answered 23/11/2016 14:52:14 answering member 350 label Biography information for Sir John Hayes
tabling member	1439 label Biography information for Norman Lamb

637194

registered interest
date	15/11/2016
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	High Speed 2 Line
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what recent estimate he has made of the total cost of the High Speed 2 project; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Coventry South
tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
uin	53086
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/11/2016 answer text <p>Spending Review 2015 announced an updated long-term funding envelope for delivering the HS2 project of £55.7bn (in 2015 prices), including rolling stock. The project is on time and on budget. HS2 Ltd is committed to managing the cost of HS2 and ensuring maximum value for the taxpayer.</p><p> </p><p>The Department for Transport and HS2 Ltd will continue to work with HM Treasury and Infrastructure UK to ensure that the costs of HS2 continue to be kept under control.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Harrogate and Knaresborough answering member printed Andrew Jones question first answered 21/11/2016 14:37:06 answering member 3996 label Biography information for Andrew Jones
tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham

637195

registered interest
date	15/11/2016
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Department for Transport: Research
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how much his Department has spent on research conducted by (a) private bodies and (b) public bodies in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Coventry South
tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
uin	53084
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/11/2016 answer text <p>The Department does not hold data which analyses research expenditure in the way requested and the information could only be provided at disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency South Holland and The Deepings answering member printed Mr John Hayes question first answered 22/11/2016 13:54:52 answering member 350 label Biography information for Sir John Hayes
tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham

637196

registered interest
date	15/11/2016
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Department for Transport: Research
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many full-time equivalent civil servants employed by his Department work in support of research projects funded by his Department; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Coventry South
tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
uin	53080
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/11/2016 answer text <p>It is estimated that between 6 April 2015 to 5 April 2016 51.5 full-time equivalent civil servants were employed by the Department for Transport in support of research projects funded by the Department.</p> answering member constituency South Holland and The Deepings answering member printed Mr John Hayes question first answered 23/11/2016 14:48:05 answering member 350 label Biography information for Sir John Hayes
tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham

637197

registered interest
date	15/11/2016
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Transport: Expenditure
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how much has been spent on (a) highway maintenance and (b) transport infrastructure in each year since 2011.
tabling member constituency	Oldham West and Royton
tabling member printed	Jim McMahon
uin	53103
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/11/2016 answer text <p><strong>a) Highway Maintenance</strong></p><p> </p><p>Just over £9 billion has been invested in highway maintenance since 2011:</p><p><strong> </strong></p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>£m</p></td><td><p>2011/12</p></td><td><p>2012/13</p></td><td><p>2013/14</p></td><td><p>2014/15</p></td><td><p>2015/16</p></td><td><p>Total</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Local Highways Network Maintenance</p></td><td><p>1006</p></td><td><p>779</p></td><td><p>1073</p></td><td><p>950</p></td><td><p>1156</p></td><td><p>4964</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Highways England Maintenance</p></td><td><p>809</p></td><td><p>708</p></td><td><p>792</p></td><td><p>981</p></td><td><p>955</p></td><td><p>4245</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Total</p></td><td><p>1815</p></td><td><p>1487</p></td><td><p>1865</p></td><td><p>1931</p></td><td><p>2111</p></td><td><p>9209</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p><strong> (b) Transport infrastructure in each year since 2011</strong></p><p> </p><p>Investing in transport infrastructure to support a strong economy is at the heart of what the Department does. We have invested over £50 billion in the rail network, strategic road network and local transport since 2011:.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>£m</p></td><td><p>2011-12</p></td><td><p>2012-13</p></td><td><p>2013-14</p></td><td><p>2014-15</p></td><td><p>2015-16</p></td><td><p>Total</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Total Capital DEL</p></td><td><p>7,777</p></td><td><p>7,934</p></td><td><p>8,537</p></td><td><p>9,389</p></td><td><p>5,961</p></td><td><p>39,597</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Total Capital AME</p></td><td><p>-33</p></td><td><p>-61</p></td><td><p>13</p></td><td><p>6,695</p></td><td><p>6,544</p></td><td><p>13,158</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Total Capital</p></td><td><p>7,744</p></td><td><p>7,873</p></td><td><p>8,549</p></td><td><p>16,084<sup>1</sup></p></td><td><p>12,505<sup>1</sup></p></td><td><p>52,755</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p><sup>1 </sup>Since Network Rail was reclassified in 2014 the Department for Transport has been funding Network Rail through a loan facility (previously Network Rail had borrowed from the Private Sector). In 2014-15 Network Rail was not consolidated within the Departmental Accounts and therefore the Accounts show that we funded them not only through the Network Grant but also this loan, which were budgeted for in CDEL and CAME respectively. For 2015-16, both of these items scored outside of budgets and instead we fully consolidated Network Rail’s income and expenditure in the Accounts. This is reflected in the change in capital spend figures in 2014/15 and 2015/16.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency South Holland and The Deepings answering member printed Mr John Hayes question first answered 23/11/2016 15:04:00 answering member 350 label Biography information for Sir John Hayes
tabling member	4569 label Biography information for Jim McMahon

637198

registered interest
date	15/11/2016
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Electric Vehicles: Charging Points
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 total electrical output from electrical vehicle chargepoints in the UK in each of the last three years; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Coventry South
tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
uin	53161
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/11/2016 answer text <p>According to estimates made by the Department for Business, Energy &amp; Industrial Strategy, the amount of electricity used for road transport in the last 3 years for which data is available is:</p><p> </p><p>2013 33 GWh</p><p>2014 68 GWh</p><p>2015 97 GWh</p><p> </p><p>This is attributed to battery electric and plug-in hybrid vehicles.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency South Holland and The Deepings answering member printed Mr John Hayes question first answered 18/11/2016 11:27:07 answering member 350 label Biography information for Sir John Hayes
tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham

637199

registered interest
date	15/11/2016
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Large Goods Vehicles: Greenhouse Gas Emissions
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 reduce the level of greenhouse gas emissions from heavy goods vehicles; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Coventry South
tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
uin	53156
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/11/2016 answer text <p>The Government has implemented measures to encourage cleaner and more fuel efficient HGVs including increasing rewards for renewable gaseous fuels under the Renewable Transport Fuel Obligation, the £11m Low Carbon Truck Trial, a £25m Advanced Biofuels Demonstration Competition, and £24 million funding to enable the freight and logistics sector to trial the very latest in innovative low and zero emission vehicle technologies in fleets.</p><p> </p><p>The Department for Transport is making good progress on its review of options to further reduce CO<sub>2</sub> emissions from the road freight sector, which we intend to publish shortly. The Government now looking ahead to our emission reduction plan which will set out the steps we will meet our carbon budgets through the 2020s.</p><p> </p><p>The Department is also engaged in EU negotiations on heavy duty vehicle CO<sub>2</sub> regulations, which will cover the monitoring and reporting of fuel consumption and CO<sub>2</sub> emissions from all new HGVs.</p> answering member constituency South Holland and The Deepings answering member printed Mr John Hayes question first answered 18/11/2016 11:31:24 answering member 350 label Biography information for Sir John Hayes
tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham

637200

registered interest
date	15/11/2016
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Motor Vehicles: Exhaust Emissions
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 ultra-low emissions vehicles registered in each of the last five years; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Coventry South
tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
uin	53155
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/11/2016 answer text <p>In 2015 more ultra low emission vehicles were registered in the UK than in the previous four years combined. The total number of new registrations of ultra low emission vehicles in each year from 2010 to 2015 is published online, and shown in the following table.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="3"><p><strong>New registrations of ultra low emission vehicles</strong><sup>1</sup><strong> in the UK</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2"><p>Year of first registration</p></td><td><p>Number of registrations</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2"><p>2010<sup>2</sup></p></td><td><p>1,259</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2"><p>2011</p></td><td><p>2,101</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2"><p>2012</p></td><td><p>3,346</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2"><p>2013</p></td><td><p>4,313</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2"><p>2014</p></td><td><p>15,833</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2"><p>2015</p></td><td><p>29,972</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3"><p>1. 'Ultra low emission vehicles' here includes all vehicles with fully electric powertrains, and cars and vans with tail-pipe emissions below 75 g/km of CO<sub>2</sub> (which will overwhelmingly include plug-in hybrid vehicles).</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3"><p>2. Figures for 2010 are for Great Britain registrations only. All other years are United Kingdom. Source: Using vehicle registration data from the table veh0130 at the gov.uk <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/all-vehicles-veh01" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/all-vehicles-veh01</a></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency South Holland and The Deepings answering member printed Mr John Hayes question first answered 18/11/2016 11:06:04 answering member 350 label Biography information for Sir John Hayes
tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham

637201

registered interest
date	15/11/2016
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Railways: Cardiff
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will take steps to improve rail links with Cardiff.
tabling member constituency	Cardiff North
tabling member printed	Craig Williams
uin	53129
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/11/2016 answer text <p>The Government remains absolutely committed to delivering the benefits to passengers of improved services while ensuring we get maximum value for the taxpayer.</p><p>We are making good progress on work to electri‎fy the Great Western main line to Cardiff; and passengers will be able to look forward to improved journeys with more seats when the Intercity Express Programme (IEP) trains come into service.</p><p /><p /> answering member constituency Blackpool North and Cleveleys answering member printed Paul Maynard question first answered 21/11/2016 15:17:04 answering member 3926 label Biography information for Paul Maynard
tabling member	4438 label Biography information for Craig Williams

637202

registered interest
date	15/11/2016
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Motor Vehicles: Noise
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 reduce noise emissions from (a) motorcycles, (b) cars and (c) commercial vehicles; and what targets he has set to reduce each such type of noise emission.
tabling member constituency	East Devon
tabling member printed	Sir Hugo Swire
uin	52910
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/11/2016 answer text <p>Vehicle noise emissions requirements are harmonized at EU level. Officials from the Department for Transport are actively involved in developing new EU regulations to reduce noise emissions from motorcycles, cars, and commercial vehicles.</p><p> </p><p>More stringent limits for cars and commercial vehicles came into force in July 2016 with further reductions scheduled for 2020 and 2024. The EU Commission are currently studying motorcycle noise. They are obliged to introduce new, more stringent requirements for motorcycles registered after 1 January 2021. The limit values are not yet set, but will be developed together with the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe, in order to obtain wider harmonisation. This work may involve development of a new test procedure.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Harrogate and Knaresborough answering member printed Andrew Jones question first answered 21/11/2016 15:21:11 answering member 3996 label Biography information for Andrew Jones
tabling member	1408 label Biography information for Lord Swire