Tag: Lilian Greenwood

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Lilian Greenwood on 2016-02-26.

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what estimate he has made of the cost to the public purse in 2016 of (a) raising regulated national rail fares by the retail price index and (b) removing train operators’ flexibility to vary regulated fare levels within the basket of fares in 2016.

Claire Perry

We know that passengers are concerned about the cost of fares. That is why we have capped regulated fares at the level of the Retail Price Index (RPI) for three years running, and will continue to do so for the life of this parliament. We have also removed the flex which allowed train operators’ flexibility to vary regulated fare levels within the basket. The estimated cost to the Department in 2016 is, £30.4 million (in nominal prices) for capping regulated rail fares at RPI+0%, and £6 million (in nominal prices) for removing the flex.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Lilian Greenwood on 2016-03-07.

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether (a) his Department or (b) an arms-length body of his Department has authorised the sale of any land containing disused rail lines since May 2010.

Claire Perry

My Department does not hold records of all such land sales by its arm’s length bodies, however It is likely that, in the period since May 2010, Network Rail, London Continental Railways (LCR), BRB (Residuary) Ltd (BRBR) (dissolved in September 2013), and Highways England (formerly the Highways Agency) all sold land containing parts of disused rail lines. Compiling a record of all sales would involve incurring disproportionate costs.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Lilian Greenwood on 2016-04-11.

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 4 March 2016 to Question 29270, and with reference to the Answer of 31 March 2008, on cycleways, when his Department stopped collecting data on the creation of cycle lanes by local authority area.

Mr Robert Goodwill

The previous Parliamentary Question refers to figures from 16 years ago. We have been unable to ascertain from Departmental records precisely when we stopped collating this data, but it will have been a decision made by the previous Labour administration.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Lilian Greenwood on 2016-04-14.

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 7 March 2016 to Question 29382, how many Bikeability training places his Department funded in each school year between 2009-10 and 2015-16.

Mr Robert Goodwill

Bikeability training places are monitored and compiled by financial year. The table below shows the number of Bikeability training places funded by the Department for Transport in each financial year from 2009-10 to 2014-15. Figures for 2015-16 have yet to be compiled.

2009-10	2010-11	2011-12	2012-13	2013-14	2014-15
133,984	199,197	293,969	255,833	279,358	350,561

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Lilian Greenwood on 2016-05-03.

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what the timetable is for completion of the Office of Rail and Road’s (a) enhancements cost adjustment and (b) civils adjustment mechanism processes; and if he will make a statement.

Claire Perry

I understand that the Office of Rail and Road (ORR) will provide an update on the Enhancement Cost Adjustment Mechanism (ECAM) in its June Network Rail Monitor. The ORR’s latest assessment of the ECAM can be found on page 30 of its most recent ‘Network Rail Monitor: Quarters 1-2 of Year 2 of CP5, 1 April 2015 to 17 October 2015’, published on 1 December 2015. Its latest assessment of the Civil Adjustment Mechanism can be found on page 27. A link to the document in question can be found here: http://orr.gov.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0008/19925/network-rail-monitor-2015-16-q1-2.pdf.

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The below Parliamentary question was asked by Lilian Greenwood on 2016-05-09.

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 28 January 2016 to Question 23836, on railways: franchises, on which franchises the partnership referred to in that Answer has provided advice to him in relation to his duties under Section 30 of the Railways Act 1993; and whether his Department has carried out mobilisation work on any franchises under Section 30 since the contract referred to in that Answer was signed.

Claire Perry

The partnership are contracted to provide advice to the Department on all rail franchises in relation to the Secretary of State’s duties under Section 30 of the Railways Act 1993.

The partnership is also currently advising the Department on a mobilisation plan for the Cross Country franchise. This plan is being prepared on a contingency basis which will be implemented in the event that negotiations on a Direct Award to the current operator fail to reach a successful commercial conclusion.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Lilian Greenwood on 2016-05-24.

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 23 May 2016 to Question 37538, on cycling, what the central and total expenditure per head by region, excluding Cycling Ambition City funding, was in 2015-16.

Mr Robert Goodwill

Information on 2015/16 is provided in the table below, but in context it should be noted that in the five years from 2011/12 to 2015/16, the overall spend per head on cycling in England from the public purse has trebled. And it is this Government which is delivering the Cycling and Walking Investment Strategy will establish for the first time the strategic framework for increasing cycling and walking in England – the first step towards achieving long-term change.

Regional figures per head for 2015/16 are available centrally for the Local Sustainable Transport Fund, Cycle Rail and Transport for London, and expenditure per head per region for these programmes for 2015/16 is included in the table below. We have also now compiled information on regional spend on Bikeability, which is also reflected in the table below.

Note that the Department does not hold a record of regional breakdowns of cycling spending under the Integrated Transport block, Highways England and Local Growth Fund programmes. The figures below therefore do not provide a total regional spend per head and spend on the ground will be significantly greater.

Region	Regional spend per head (£)* for selected programmes
2015/16	Includes Cycling Ambition	Excludes Cycling Ambition
East Midlands	DfT spend	1	1
	Total spend	1	1
East of England	DfT spend	1	1
	Total spend	1	1
North East	DfT spend	6	5
	Total spend	7	5
North West	DfT spend	2	2
	Total spend	4	2
South East	DfT spend	2	2
	Total spend	2	2
South West	DfT spend	3	3
	Total spend	4	3
West Midlands	DfT spend	2	2
	Total spend	3	2
Yorkshire & Humber	DfT spend	2	2
	Total spend	3	2
London	Total spend	18	18

*Figures have been rounded

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The below Parliamentary question was asked by Lilian Greenwood on 2016-06-13.

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 23 May 2016 to Question 37807 and with reference to the Answer of 29 October 2015 to Question 12850, on Thameslink railway line: rolling stock, for what reasons the introduction of Class 700 trains has been delayed.

Claire Perry

Operational testing of the new Class 700 Thameslink trains by Govia Thameslink Railway Ltd is in the process of being finalised prior to their entry into revenue earning service, which I expect will take place shortly.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Lilian Greenwood on 2016-06-15.

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the answer of 13 June 2016 to Question 39848, what the estimated cost to the public purse was of preparing and publishing the Hendry report on Replanning Network Rail’s Investment Programme, published on 25 November 2015.

Claire Perry

Network Rail employed two consultancy firms to work on the Hendy Review. Costs associated with this work totalled approximately £470,000.

We are unable to provide further detail as to the proportion of these costs associated purely with report preparation.

The estimated cost to the public purse for publishing the Hendy Report, was £22,735 associated with typesetting and printing.

The above figures do not include costs associated with the embedded workforce because we are unable to disaggregate these costs from staff performing their day to day duties.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Lilian Greenwood on 2016-07-20.

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether the environmental assurance work his Department undertook in December 2015 in connection with runway expansion has been completed; and what the estimated cost of that work was to the public purse on the latest date for which figures are available.

Mr John Hayes

The Department is undertaking work to understand the environmental impacts of additional airport capacity. Further details on procurement undertaken to support the Department on environmental impacts can be found here: https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/17ffaddc-3c19-4462-91ae-bf30029c08d9.

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