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1472134

registered interest
date	21/06/2022
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Acceleration Unit
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will provide Parliament with a report on the work of his Department's Acceleration Unit.
tabling member constituency	Wimbledon
tabling member printed	Stephen Hammond
uin	22380
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/06/2022 answer text <p>The Acceleration Unit performs valuable work at the Department for Transport. DfT oversight and leadership on Project Speed and the secretariat of the Northern Transport Acceleration Council have both been transferred to the Acceleration Unit. The Acceleration Unit also has oversight of the departmental contribution to cross-Whitehall activity in relation to acceleration, particularly work on reforming the planning system, utilities, and how DfT can use improved governance to efficiently deliver projects.</p> answering member constituency Pendle answering member printed Andrew Stephenson question first answered 27/06/2022 14:17:55 answering member 4044 label Biography information for Andrew Stephenson
tabling member	1585 label Biography information for Stephen Hammond

1472160

registered interest
date	21/06/2022
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Acceleration Unit
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many projects the Acceleration Unit has advised on since it was established; and if he will make an estimate of the (a) time and (b) monetary savings secured on projects due to advice from the Acceleration Unit.
tabling member constituency	Wimbledon
tabling member printed	Stephen Hammond
uin	22381
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/06/2022 answer text <p>The time and cost savings generated through the work of the Acceleration Unit can be complex to disaggregate and some of the information is commercially sensitive.</p> answering member constituency Pendle answering member printed Andrew Stephenson question first answered 27/06/2022 14:22:47 answering member 4044 label Biography information for Andrew Stephenson
tabling member	1585 label Biography information for Stephen Hammond

1472162

registered interest
date	21/06/2022
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Acceleration Unit
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how much it cost to operate the Acceleration Unit in each year since 2020.
tabling member constituency	Wimbledon
tabling member printed	Stephen Hammond
uin	22382
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/06/2022 answer text <p>The costs for the Acceleration Unit are met out of existing Civil Service staffing budgets.</p> answering member constituency Pendle answering member printed Andrew Stephenson question first answered 27/06/2022 14:25:07 answering member 4044 label Biography information for Andrew Stephenson
tabling member	1585 label Biography information for Stephen Hammond

1307117

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	Acceleration Unit
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will provide a progress report to Parliament on the work of his Department’s Transport Acceleration Unit.
tabling member constituency	Wimbledon
tabling member printed	Stephen Hammond
uin	178680
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/04/2021 answer text <p>Since commencing operation in October 2020, the Acceleration Unit has been involved in accelerating projects through the Northern Transport Acceleration Council, the Restoring Your Railways programme and the National Bus Strategy. Among the projects the Acceleration Unit has successfully supported accelerating there is, notably, ensuring the delivery of the first Beeching reversal, the Dartmoor Line into Okehampton, will open later this year 20 months early. It has supported accelerating delivery, unblocking barriers, and driving down cost on this project. Among the many projects the unit is supporting are the new A19 Tees Crossing, improvements to the A59 at Kex Gill, and ensuring the National Bus Strategy was published in March.</p> answering member constituency Pendle answering member printed Andrew Stephenson question first answered 20/04/2021 15:17:14 answering member 4044 label Biography information for Andrew Stephenson
tabling member	1585 label Biography information for Stephen Hammond

1245019

registered interest
date	20/10/2020
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Acceleration Unit
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what the (a) mission statement and (b) objectives are of his Department's Acceleration Unit; and for what reasons that Unit was established.
tabling member constituency	Wimbledon
tabling member printed	Stephen Hammond
uin	106280
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/10/2020 answer text <p>The Acceleration Unit was established with the overall objective of accelerating key transport projects and programmes. The work of the Acceleration Unit is driven by the need to build back better, to level up the country and to decarbonise transport.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Pendle answering member printed Andrew Stephenson question first answered 28/10/2020 14:45:37 answering member 4044 label Biography information for Andrew Stephenson
tabling member	1585 label Biography information for Stephen Hammond