The Department\u2019s remit is delivered mostly through its Arm\u2019s Length Bodies and Executive Agencies. Each body assesses prospective suppliers\u2019 ability to deliver its obligations during each procurement exercise before the award of contracts. This to comply with procurement regulations and statute, as well as evaluate the company\u2019s competence and capability. Before contracts are signed there are various layers of governance across the ALBs, the Department, Cabinet Office and HM Treasury depending on the circumstances of each procurement. There are also measures in place to monitor financial stability throughout the procurement lifecycle.<\/p>"} , "answeringMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/4460", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Ms Nusrat Ghani"} } , "answeringMemberConstituency" : {"_value" : "Wealden"} , "answeringMemberPrinted" : {"_value" : "Ms Nusrat Ghani"} , "dateOfAnswer" : {"_value" : "2018-11-12", "_datatype" : "dateTime"} , "isMinisterialCorrection" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"} , "questionFirstAnswered" : [{"_value" : "2018-11-12T15:24:36.527Z", "_datatype" : "dateTime"} ]} , "answeringDeptId" : {"_value" : "27"} , "answeringDeptShortName" : {"_value" : "Transport"} , "answeringDeptSortName" : {"_value" : "Transport"} , "date" : {"_value" : "2018-11-02", "_datatype" : "dateTime"} , "hansardHeading" : {"_value" : "Laing O'Rourke"} , "houseId" : {"_value" : "1"} , "legislature" : [{"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/terms/25259", "prefLabel" : {"_value" : "House of Commons"} } ], "questionText" : "To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what recent assessment has he made of the financial sustainability of Laing O\u2019Rourke and the ability of that company to fulfil its contractual responsibilities in relation to (a) railways and (b) highways.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"} , "tablingMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/4269", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Andy McDonald"} } , "tablingMemberConstituency" : {"_value" : "Middlesbrough"} , "tablingMemberPrinted" : [{"_value" : "Andy McDonald"} ], "uin" : "187373"} , {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/1000305", "AnsweringBody" : [{"_value" : "Department for Transport"} ], "answer" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/1000305/answer", "answerText" : {"_value" : "
The rail industry has been shifting away from RPI over time and most rail industry costs now are not linked to RPI, with the primary exception of wages. The Secretary of State for Transport has asked the Rail Delivery Group (RDG) to develop an approach for how earnings growth for all employees could be more closely aligned with CPI, with the aim of ensuring that the railway is affordable for the fare paying and tax paying public. He has not made any reference to a \u2018pay award system\u2019 for any groups of staff.<\/p>
<\/em><\/p> Pay negotiations and the settlements reached by individual employers and trade unions remain a matter for local collective bargaining.<\/p>"}
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, "date" : {"_value" : "2018-11-02", "_datatype" : "dateTime"}
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], "questionText" : "To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 19 October 2018 to Question 178322 on Train Operating Companies: Pay, whether he has asked the Rail Delivery Group to include executive pay in the development of a pay award system that uses CPI as the inflation measure for future pay deals.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"}
, "tablingMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/4269", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Andy McDonald"}
}
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, "tablingMemberPrinted" : [{"_value" : "Andy McDonald"}
], "uin" : "187388"}
, {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/1000307", "AnsweringBody" : [{"_value" : "Department for Transport"}
], "answer" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/1000307/answer", "answerText" : {"_value" : " The total amount spent by the Department for Transport on both aviation and aerospace research and development is provided below. These figures include both sectors. It is not possible to separate the expenditure as many individual research projects include aspects of both:<\/p> 2014/15: £1,137,725<\/p> 2015/16: £2,683,895<\/p> 2016/17: £1,571,768<\/p> 2017/18: £1,485,789<\/p> <\/p> The figures above do not include any spend which may have been incurred by other Government departments in this area.<\/p> <\/p>"}
, "answeringMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/3991", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Jesse Norman"}
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, "date" : {"_value" : "2018-11-02", "_datatype" : "dateTime"}
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], "questionText" : "To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how much the Department for Transport has spent on research and development in (a) aviation and (b) aerospace in (i) 2015, (ii) 2016 and (iii) 2017.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"}
, "tablingMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/4269", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Andy McDonald"}
}
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, "tablingMemberPrinted" : [{"_value" : "Andy McDonald"}
], "uin" : "187390"}
, {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/997166", "AnsweringBody" : [{"_value" : "Department for Transport"}
], "answer" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/997166/answer", "answerText" : {"_value" : " The table below lists the number of (a) owned (b) leased vehicles in the fleets operated by the Department for Transport and its Agencies.<\/p> <\/strong><\/p> Department for Transport & Agencies<\/strong> Fleet<\/strong><\/p><\/td> Outright Purchased<\/strong><\/p><\/td> Leased<\/strong><\/p><\/td> Number of Ultra-Low Emission Vehicles<\/strong><\/p><\/td> % of Fleet<\/em><\/strong> Ultra-Low<\/em><\/strong> Emission<\/em><\/strong> Vehicles<\/em><\/strong><\/p><\/td><\/tr> <\/strong><\/p><\/td> <\/p><\/td> <\/p><\/td> <\/p><\/td> <\/p><\/td><\/tr> GCS, Government Car Service DfTc<\/p><\/td> 86<\/p><\/td> 5<\/p><\/td> 9<\/p><\/td> 10.47%<\/p><\/td><\/tr> MCA, Maritime & Coastguard Agency<\/p><\/td> 447<\/p><\/td> 0<\/p><\/td> 0<\/p><\/td> 0%<\/p><\/td><\/tr> DVSA, Driver Vehicle & Standards Agency<\/p><\/td> 282<\/p><\/td> 977<\/p><\/td> 0<\/p><\/td> 0%<\/p><\/td><\/tr> VCA, Vehicle Certification Agency<\/p><\/td> 4<\/p><\/td> 2<\/p><\/td> 3<\/p><\/td> 50%<\/p><\/td><\/tr> DVLA, Driver & Vehicle Licensing Agency<\/p><\/td> 0<\/p><\/td> 27<\/p><\/td> 9<\/p><\/td> 33.33%<\/p><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table> <\/p> The Chancellor announced in the Autumn Statement 2017 that 25% of cars in the central government fleets will be ultra-low emission by 2022.<\/p>"}
, "answeringMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/4460", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Ms Nusrat Ghani"}
}
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, "answeringMemberPrinted" : {"_value" : "Ms Nusrat Ghani"}
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]}
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, "answeringDeptShortName" : {"_value" : "Transport"}
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, "date" : {"_value" : "2018-10-29", "_datatype" : "dateTime"}
, "hansardHeading" : {"_value" : "Department for Transport: Motor Vehicles"}
, "houseId" : {"_value" : "1"}
, "legislature" : [{"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/terms/25259", "prefLabel" : {"_value" : "House of Commons"}
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], "questionText" : "To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 13 March 2018 to Question 131715 on motor vehicles, what proportion of the fleet (a) owned and (b) leased by the (i) Government Car Service, (ii) Driver & Vehicle Licensing Agency, (iii) Driver & Vehicle Standards Agency, (iv) Maritime & Coastguard Agency and (v) Vehicle Certification Agency are ultra-low emission vehicles.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"}
, "tablingMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/4269", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Andy McDonald"}
}
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, "tablingMemberPrinted" : [{"_value" : "Andy McDonald"}
], "uin" : "184986"}
, {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/994219", "AnsweringBody" : [{"_value" : "Department for Transport"}
], "answer" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/994219/answer", "answerText" : {"_value" : " DfT is working together with the Rail Industry to enable facility for Automatic Power Change Over (APCO) on Intercity Express Trains on the East Coast and Great Western routes. This includes appropriate power change over arrangements at Steventon Bridge. I understand that Network Rail have launched a formal appeal to the Planning Inspectorate against the local authority decision to refuse planning permission for replacing Steventon Bridge.<\/p> <\/p> <\/p>"}
, "answeringMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/4039", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Lord Johnson of Marylebone"}
}
, "answeringMemberConstituency" : {"_value" : "Orpington"}
, "answeringMemberPrinted" : {"_value" : "Joseph Johnson"}
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, "questionFirstAnswered" : [{"_value" : "2018-11-01T16:15:31.373Z", "_datatype" : "dateTime"}
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, "date" : {"_value" : "2018-10-24", "_datatype" : "dateTime"}
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, "legislature" : [{"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/terms/25259", "prefLabel" : {"_value" : "House of Commons"}
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], "questionText" : "To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 19 October 2018 to Question 178321, what assessment he has made of the role of his Department in overseeing the introduction of the Automatic Power Change Over (APCO) system integration (a) across the InterCity Express programme and (b) at the Signalling Scheme Plan at Steventon Bridge.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"}
, "tablingMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/4269", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Andy McDonald"}
}
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, "tablingMemberPrinted" : [{"_value" : "Andy McDonald"}
], "uin" : "183463"}
, {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/994221", "AnsweringBody" : [{"_value" : "Department for Transport"}
], "answer" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/994221/answer", "answerText" : {"_value" : " I refer the hon Member to the written Answer I gave on 13 September to Question 170780 on the Rail Delivery Group (RDG) which sets out the RDG\u2019s role in rail industrial relations.<\/p> <\/p> Ultimately, the day to day responsibility for managing industrial relations or any dispute in the rail sector will be a matter for the individual employers and trade unions.<\/p>"}
, "answeringMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/4039", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Lord Johnson of Marylebone"}
}
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, "answeringMemberPrinted" : {"_value" : "Joseph Johnson"}
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, "questionFirstAnswered" : [{"_value" : "2018-11-01T16:31:12.997Z", "_datatype" : "dateTime"}
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, "answeringDeptShortName" : {"_value" : "Transport"}
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, "date" : {"_value" : "2018-10-24", "_datatype" : "dateTime"}
, "hansardHeading" : {"_value" : "Railways: Industrial Disputes"}
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, "legislature" : [{"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/terms/25259", "prefLabel" : {"_value" : "House of Commons"}
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], "questionText" : "To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 19 October 2018 to Question 178322 on Train Operating Companies: Pay, what (a) locus, (b) authority or (c) remit the Rail Delivery Group has to intervene in rail industry industrial relations.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"}
, "tablingMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/4269", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Andy McDonald"}
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, "tablingMemberPrinted" : [{"_value" : "Andy McDonald"}
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, {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/994224", "AnsweringBody" : [{"_value" : "Department for Transport"}
], "answer" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/994224/answer", "answerText" : {"_value" : " To answer parts (a), (b) and (c) of the question, the DfT has worked with the rail industry to publish a Joint Rail Data Action Plan. This outlines the Government\u2019s assessment on open and closed rail data, and sets out a number of actions the rail industry will take to ensure data is being shared and used for the benefit of the railways and rail passengers.<\/p> <\/p> This plan will ensure a shift in the railway industry\u2019s approach to using and sharing its data, including new datasets to be made openly available, improvement on how data is collected and classified and new initiatives to bring the rail and technology sectors together. This will drive forward innovation within the rail industry and forge partnerships with the developer community so that the use of data is maximised and more accurate and up-to-date information is put into the hands of the passengers.<\/p> <\/p>