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776073

	registered interest
	date	23/10/2017
	answering body	Department for Transport
	answering dept id	27
	answering dept short name	Transport
	answering dept sort name	Transport
	hansard heading	Taxis: Carbon 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 encourage taxi drivers to purchase new zero-emissions vehicles.
	tabling member constituency	Richmond Park
	tabling member printed	Zac Goldsmith
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	109042
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/10/2017 answer text <p>The Plug in Taxi Grant (PITG) was announced in March 2017. This will provide support to taxi drivers purchasing new ultra low emission taxis of up to £7,500. The first eligible vehicles to be able to claim the PITG are expected to come to market shortly. We are keeping PITG support levels under review.</p><p> </p><p>For private hire vehicles the existing Plug in Car Grant of up to £4,500 is already available to support the take up of ultra low emission vehicles (ULEVs) used as taxis.</p><p> </p><p>To provide further support for ULEV taxis the Government is supporting 10 local authorities with £14m of funding to install dedicated chargepoint infrastructure to encourage taxi drivers to purchase new zero emissions vehicles.</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman grouped question UIN 109044 question first answered 26/10/2017 14:51:39 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
	tabling member	4062 label Biography information for Lord Goldsmith of Richmond Park

776075

	registered interest
	date	23/10/2017
	answering body	Department for Transport
	answering dept id	27
	answering dept short name	Transport
	answering dept sort name	Transport
	hansard heading	Taxis: Grants
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether he plans to increase the value of the plug-in taxi grant available to taxi drivers.
	tabling member constituency	Richmond Park
	tabling member printed	Zac Goldsmith
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	109044
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/10/2017 answer text <p>The Plug in Taxi Grant (PITG) was announced in March 2017. This will provide support to taxi drivers purchasing new ultra low emission taxis of up to £7,500. The first eligible vehicles to be able to claim the PITG are expected to come to market shortly. We are keeping PITG support levels under review.</p><p> </p><p>For private hire vehicles the existing Plug in Car Grant of up to £4,500 is already available to support the take up of ultra low emission vehicles (ULEVs) used as taxis.</p><p> </p><p>To provide further support for ULEV taxis the Government is supporting 10 local authorities with £14m of funding to install dedicated chargepoint infrastructure to encourage taxi drivers to purchase new zero emissions vehicles.</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman grouped question UIN 109042 question first answered 26/10/2017 14:51:39 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
	tabling member	4062 label Biography information for Lord Goldsmith of Richmond Park

773303

	registered interest
	date	18/10/2017
	answering body	Department for Transport
	answering dept id	27
	answering dept short name	Transport
	answering dept sort name	Transport
	hansard heading	Transport
	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 improve transport connectivity between the north east and the rest of England.
	tabling member constituency	Jarrow
	tabling member printed	Mr Stephen Hepburn
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	108424
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/10/2017 answer text <p>The Government is committed to improving connectivity within the North of England, and between the North and the rest of England. Once the £380m scheme to upgrade the A1 between Leeming and Barton is completed in spring 2018, there will be a continuous motorway link between London and Tyne and Wear. The £61m Coal House to Metro Centre improvement scheme has already improved journey times on the A1 Newcastle Gateshead Western Bypass, and further phases are under development, along with a scheme to dual more of the A1 in Northumberland. East to west connectivity will be improved by the commitment to complete the dualling of the A66 and improve junctions on the A69 around Hexham.</p><p> </p><p>Rail connectivity will be improved by the new Northern and TransPennine Express franchises, which will provide new trains, more than 500 new carriages, room for 40,000 extra passengers and more than 2,000 extra services a week, by 2020. As part of this, the frequency of Transpennine trains between Newcastle and York/Leeds/Manchester will increase from one to two trains per hour. Services on the East Coast Main Line will be improved in 2018 when the introduction of new Azuma trains will provide over 12,000 extra seats.</p><p> </p><p>The Department awaits Transport for the North’s draft Strategic Transport Plan which will set out their aims for further improving transport connectivity in the North.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 26/10/2017 14:14:32 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
	tabling member	520 label Biography information for Mr Stephen Hepburn

773313

	registered interest
	date	18/10/2017
	answering body	Department for Transport
	answering dept id	27
	answering dept short name	Transport
	answering dept sort name	Transport
	hansard heading	Underground Railways: Tyne and Wear
	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 potential economic benefits of (a) introducing new rolling stock and (b) extending the Tyne and Wear Metro for (i) service users and (ii) the local population.
	tabling member constituency	Jarrow
	tabling member printed	Mr Stephen Hepburn
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	108535
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/10/2017 answer text <p>Departmental officials are in discussion with Nexus, the Tyne and Wear Metro, regarding their proposals for new rolling stock and as part of this work Nexus have provided a Strategic Outline Business Case.</p><p> </p><p>The Government has not been asked to consider a business case for the Metro extensions. Assessing the economic case for extending the Metro system is a matter for Nexus and the Tyne and Wear local authorities to consider.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 26/10/2017 13:52:11 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
	tabling member	520 label Biography information for Mr Stephen Hepburn

776026

	registered interest
	date	23/10/2017
	answering body	Department for Transport
	answering dept id	27
	answering dept short name	Transport
	answering dept sort name	Transport
	hansard heading	A417
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, when he plans to publish the feasibility studies for the A417 missing link.
	tabling member constituency	The Cotswolds
	tabling member printed	Geoffrey Clifton-Brown
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	109019
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/10/2017 answer text <p>Highways England is developing its proposals that consider both the environmental sensitivity of the site and the importance of the route. An options consultation is to take place in the coming months.</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 30/10/2017 16:28:01 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
	tabling member	249 label Biography information for Sir Geoffrey Clifton-Brown

776033

	registered interest
	date	23/10/2017
	answering body	Department for Transport
	answering dept id	27
	answering dept short name	Transport
	answering dept sort name	Transport
	hansard heading	Transport: Per Capita Costs
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the oral contribution by the Secretary of State for Transport of 19 October 2017, Official Report, column 975, what evidence there is that per-head transport investment in London is not 10 times greater than in Yorkshire and the Humber; and if he will publish per-head transport investment for each NUTS 1 region of England.
	tabling member constituency	Kingston upon Hull North
	tabling member printed	Diana Johnson
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	108962
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/10/2017 answer text <p>Historic per-head transport investment for each NUTS 1 region of England is already published in Her Majesty Treasury’s Country and Regional Analysis data.</p><p> </p><p>Analysis using the most recent Country and Regional Analysis (November 2016) shows that in 2015-16 transport investment per head by the Department for Transport in London was less than double that in Yorkshire and the Humber, at £285 in London and £168 in Yorkshire and the Humber.</p><p> </p><p>A number of factors make precise analysis and comparisons difficult. It is not always possible to allocate spending accurately on a project that crosses many regions, such as HS2. Projects of national significance such as Crossrail, which is the largest infrastructure project in Europe, can alone distort these figures significantly. An analysis of regional spend per head of resident population would not necessarily take into account the pressure that large numbers of commuters and visitors from outside of a region can add to a region’s transport networks.</p><p> </p><p>In addition, larger and more densely built-up areas tend to make greater use of mass public transport systems. For example, in 2015/16 there were 537 million rail journeys within the London area compared to 142 million in the North. Investment by the Department is made based on a fair and rigorous process designed to ensure that spending goes where it is most needed.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 26/10/2017 15:12:15 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
	tabling member	1533 label Biography information for Dame Diana Johnson

776229

	registered interest
	date	23/10/2017
	answering body	Department for Transport
	answering dept id	27
	answering dept short name	Transport
	answering dept sort name	Transport
	hansard heading	Transport: Per Capita Costs
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how much his Department plans to spend on transport infrastructure per capita in each region for the three years from 2016-17.
	tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
	tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	109060
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/10/2017 answer text <p>A meaningful regional breakdown of infrastructure investment is difficult due to the nature of many transport projects, which traverse multiple regions. The Infrastructure Projects Authority (IPA) publishes a forward-looking pipeline of planned projects, including transport programmes by region. However, this includes a number of projects that have not been allocated to regions, and, by value, around 60% have not been allocated to an individual region because they relate to schemes that cover multiple regions or programmes that will be spread across the whole country, such as HS2. A link to the current IPA published data is below:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/national-infrastructure-and-construction-pipeline-2016" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/national-infrastructure-and-construction-pipeline-2016</a></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 26/10/2017 14:23:22 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
	tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

776230

	registered interest
	date	23/10/2017
	answering body	Department for Transport
	answering dept id	27
	answering dept short name	Transport
	answering dept sort name	Transport
	hansard heading	Transport: Per Capita Costs
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what his Department spent on transport infrastructure per capita in each region in (a) 2010-11, (b) 2011-12, (c) 2012-13, (d) 2013-14, (e) 2014-15 and (f) 2015-16.
	tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
	tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	109057
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/10/2017 answer text <p>Figures on public sector spend at a regional and national level are part of the Government’s Country and Regional Analysis (CRA) statistics.</p><p>Statistics for previous capital expenditure, per capita, by the Department for Transport for each region for transport are given in table 1 below. Table 2 provides the equivalent statistics but includes spending on transport from all other areas of the public sector. Capital expenditure has been used as a proxy for spending on infrastructure specifically.</p><p><strong>Table 1: Capital spending, per capita, on all transport, by the DfT only</strong></p><p><strong><em>£s nominal</em></strong></p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Region</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2010-11</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2011-12</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2012-13</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2013-14</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2014-15</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2015-16</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>England - East</strong></p></td><td><p>150</p></td><td><p>133</p></td><td><p>87</p></td><td><p>90</p></td><td><p>92</p></td><td><p>137</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>England - East Midlands</strong></p></td><td><p>85</p></td><td><p>73</p></td><td><p>60</p></td><td><p>74</p></td><td><p>104</p></td><td><p>98</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>England - London</strong></p></td><td><p>134</p></td><td><p>133</p></td><td><p>139</p></td><td><p>138</p></td><td><p>172</p></td><td><p>285</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>England - North East</strong></p></td><td><p>60</p></td><td><p>48</p></td><td><p>50</p></td><td><p>54</p></td><td><p>75</p></td><td><p>104</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>England - North West</strong></p></td><td><p>77</p></td><td><p>73</p></td><td><p>75</p></td><td><p>71</p></td><td><p>95</p></td><td><p>153</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>England - South East</strong></p></td><td><p>89</p></td><td><p>74</p></td><td><p>78</p></td><td><p>96</p></td><td><p>100</p></td><td><p>155</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>England - South West</strong></p></td><td><p>56</p></td><td><p>53</p></td><td><p>58</p></td><td><p>51</p></td><td><p>62</p></td><td><p>91</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>England - West Midlands</strong></p></td><td><p>67</p></td><td><p>62</p></td><td><p>71</p></td><td><p>83</p></td><td><p>113</p></td><td><p>155</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>England - Yorkshire and Humber</strong></p></td><td><p>97</p></td><td><p>99</p></td><td><p>97</p></td><td><p>91</p></td><td><p>118</p></td><td><p>168</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>England</strong></p></td><td><p>94</p></td><td><p>87</p></td><td><p>84</p></td><td><p>88</p></td><td><p>108</p></td><td><p>161</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Northern Ireland</strong></p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Scotland</strong></p></td><td><p>20</p></td><td><p>20</p></td><td><p>21</p></td><td><p>20</p></td><td><p>27</p></td><td><p>42</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Wales</strong></p></td><td><p>54</p></td><td><p>59</p></td><td><p>62</p></td><td><p>56</p></td><td><p>58</p></td><td><p>101</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>United Kingdom</strong></p></td><td><p>84</p></td><td><p>78</p></td><td><p>76</p></td><td><p>79</p></td><td><p>96</p></td><td><p>144</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p><strong><em> </em></strong></p><p><strong>Table 2: Capital spending, per capita, on all transport, by all public sector bodies</strong></p><p><strong><em>£s nominal</em></strong></p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Region</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2010-11</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2011-12</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2012-13</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2013-14</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2014-15</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2015-16</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>England - East</strong></p></td><td><p>235</p></td><td><p>210</p></td><td><p>164</p></td><td><p>175</p></td><td><p>200</p></td><td><p>247</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>England - East Midlands</strong></p></td><td><p>136</p></td><td><p>131</p></td><td><p>102</p></td><td><p>130</p></td><td><p>161</p></td><td><p>166</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>England - London</strong></p></td><td><p>414</p></td><td><p>413</p></td><td><p>432</p></td><td><p>455</p></td><td><p>539</p></td><td><p>688</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>England - North East</strong></p></td><td><p>144</p></td><td><p>129</p></td><td><p>111</p></td><td><p>126</p></td><td><p>159</p></td><td><p>182</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>England - North West</strong></p></td><td><p>181</p></td><td><p>179</p></td><td><p>155</p></td><td><p>156</p></td><td><p>190</p></td><td><p>258</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>England - South East</strong></p></td><td><p>145</p></td><td><p>134</p></td><td><p>145</p></td><td><p>176</p></td><td><p>191</p></td><td><p>246</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>England - South West</strong></p></td><td><p>128</p></td><td><p>114</p></td><td><p>116</p></td><td><p>122</p></td><td><p>148</p></td><td><p>186</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>England - West Midlands</strong></p></td><td><p>134</p></td><td><p>126</p></td><td><p>145</p></td><td><p>141</p></td><td><p>189</p></td><td><p>227</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>England - Yorkshire and Humber</strong></p></td><td><p>148</p></td><td><p>146</p></td><td><p>154</p></td><td><p>163</p></td><td><p>202</p></td><td><p>240</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>England</strong></p></td><td><p>198</p></td><td><p>189</p></td><td><p>186</p></td><td><p>200</p></td><td><p>239</p></td><td><p>299</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Northern Ireland</strong></p></td><td><p>225</p></td><td><p>169</p></td><td><p>149</p></td><td><p>132</p></td><td><p>142</p></td><td><p>87</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Scotland</strong></p></td><td><p>225</p></td><td><p>238</p></td><td><p>268</p></td><td><p>253</p></td><td><p>274</p></td><td><p>223</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Wales</strong></p></td><td><p>194</p></td><td><p>175</p></td><td><p>192</p></td><td><p>180</p></td><td><p>186</p></td><td><p>216</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>United Kingdom</strong></p></td><td><p>202</p></td><td><p>193</p></td><td><p>193</p></td><td><p>203</p></td><td><p>238</p></td><td><p>285</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>It should be noted that big projects, such as Crossrail, which is the largest infrastructure project in Europe, can significantly distort these figures. In addition to this it is not always possible to allocate spending precisely on a project that crosses many regions, for example HS2. This Department focuses on delivering outcomes for transport users, not on spending per head. An analysis of regional spend per head of resident population would not, for example, take into account the pressure that large numbers of commuters and visitors from outside of a region can add to a region’s transport networks. In addition, larger and more densely built-up areas tend to make greater use of mass public transport systems. For example, in 2015/16 there were 537 million rail journeys within the London area compared to 142 million in the North. Investment by the Department is made based on a fair and rigorous process that ensures that spending goes where it is most needed.</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 26/10/2017 14:42:11 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
	tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

776256

	registered interest
	date	23/10/2017
	answering body	Department for Transport
	answering dept id	27
	answering dept short name	Transport
	answering dept sort name	Transport
	hansard heading	Transport: North West
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how much the Government has allocated to transport capital infrastructure projects in the North West of England in each year since 2015.
	tabling member constituency	Bolton West
	tabling member printed	Chris Green
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	109103
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/10/2017 answer text <p>Figures on public sector spend at a regional and national level are part of the Government’s Country and Regional Analysis (CRA) statistics. These statistics attempt to allocate the spending according to where the benefits of that spend are accrued.</p><p> </p><p>Statistics for public capital expenditure on transport for the North West of England for the years 2014-15 and 2015-16 are given below:</p><p> </p><p>2014-15: £1.355 billion</p><p>2015-16: £1.853 billion</p><p> </p><p>These figures include spend on transport by all public sector organisations (including Local Authorities and Public Corporations).</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 26/10/2017 15:01:50 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
	tabling member	4398 label Biography information for Chris Green

776257

	registered interest
	date	23/10/2017
	answering body	Department for Transport
	answering dept id	27
	answering dept short name	Transport
	answering dept sort name	Transport
	hansard heading	Road Traffic: Greater Manchester
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what recent assessment his Department has made of trends in the level of congestion on roads in (a) Bolton and (b) Wigan.
	tabling member constituency	Bolton West
	tabling member printed	Chris Green
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	109104
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/10/2017 answer text <p>The Department has not made an assessment of the trends in the level of congestion on all roads in (a) Bolton and (b) Wigan.</p><p> </p><p>Information is held on average delay on locally managed ‘A’ roads and the most recent data provided by the Department is as follows.</p><p> </p><p>CGN0502b: Average delay on locally managed ‘A’ roads by local authority</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td colspan="4"><p><strong>Average delay (seconds per vehicle per mile)</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p><strong>2015</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2016</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>% change</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Bolton</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>58.5</p></td><td><p>57.6</p></td><td><p>-1.6</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Wigan</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>58.5</p></td><td><p>58.5</p></td><td><p>0.0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>England</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>44.6</p></td><td><p>45.9</p></td><td><p>+2.8</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>Average delay is commonly used as a measure of relative congestion. A decrease in average delay indicates a reduction in the level of congestion.</p><p>These statistics are the most up to date figures published by the Department and come from the table CGN0502b, which is published annually in February. The full table can be accessed using the following link: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/average-speed-and-delay-on-local-a-roads-cgn05%23table-cgn0502" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/average-speed-and-delay-on-local-a-roads-cgn05#table-cgn0502</a>.</p><p> </p><p>The Department does not produce statistics for congestion at the local authority level for the Strategic Road Network or for minor roads.</p><p> </p><p>Highways England keeps the trunk road and motorway network in England under constant review, but has made no recent specific assessment of trends in the level of congestion through Bolton and Wigan.</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 30/10/2017 16:32:50 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
	tabling member	4398 label Biography information for Chris Green