Tag: Lilian Greenwood

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Lilian Greenwood on 2016-01-12.

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 11 January 2016 to Question 21128, whether his Department plans to make additional funding available to help repair local highway infrastructure damaged by the winter floods of 2015-16.

Andrew Jones

The Department for Transport is providing £40 million of emergency government funding to support communities in Cumbria and Lancashire, by helping fund repairs to key local transport infrastructure. This builds on the government’s provision of up to £2 million in the initial aftermath of the severe wet weather to enable Cumbria and Lancashire authorities to carry out an initial assessment of what repairs were required to roads and bridges.

£3.3 million of funding has also been announced for the restoration of the Tadcaster Bridge and the construction of a temporary footbridge while work is ongoing, to support this community in North Yorkshire. Further, we have recently announced up to £5.5 million of funding to help with the rebuilding of Elland Bridge in Calderdale.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Lilian Greenwood on 2016-01-27.

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to the oral contribution of the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs of 19 January 2016, Official Report, column 1364, what the evidential basis is for his statement that his Department will go further still in raising cycling spending per head.

Mr Robert Goodwill

Under the previous Government, spend on cycling increased to £6 per head from the £2 inherited in 2010. This Government has made clear its intention to make this country a cycling nation and our commitment to the publication of a Cycling and Walking Investment Strategy is evidence of our support to go further in supporting cycling on a longer term basis. The strategy will set out our objectives, activities and the funding available for cycling and walking in England in the long term and will be published in the summer following a consultation in spring.

We are also going further by making sure that provision for cyclists is now embedded into wider transport programs.

Through the Road Investment Strategy, Highways England has committed to provide a safer, integrated and more accessible strategic road network for cyclists and other vulnerable road users, with a plan to invest £100m between 2015/16 and 2020/21 to improve provision for cyclists on and around the strategic road network.

At a local level, a record £6 billion is being allocated to local authorities between 2015 and 2021 for road maintenance, and from 2018/19 the plan is to change the allocation formula so that it takes into account footways and cycleways as well as the roads, bridges and street lighting that it is currently based on. Once implemented, around 9% of the funding will be based on footway and cycleway lengths.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Lilian Greenwood on 2016-02-04.

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 3 February 2016 to Question 24232 from the hon. Member for Dewsbury and Mirfield, what budget has been set for the British Transport Police for 2016-17.

Claire Perry

The British Transport Police Authority has set an expected budget of £295.1 million for the British Transport Police in 2016/17.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Lilian Greenwood on 2016-02-24.

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what progress Highways England has made on introducing Regional Road Safety Co-ordinators; and whether Highways England’s Regional Incident and Casualty Reduction Plans will include targets for casualty reductions.

Andrew Jones

Regional Safety Coordinators have now been appointed by Highways England. The first appointment was made in January 2016 and the final appointment was made this month.

The killed and seriously injured reduction target, which is within the Roads Investment Strategy, is a 40% reduction by 2020 (against 2005 to 2009 average baseline). Highways England’s Regional Incident and Casualty Reduction Plans which will provide the disaggregated targets per region will be published in April 2016.

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

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how much (a) Network Rail and (b) the Highways Agency spent on hire cars in (i) 2014-15 and (ii) 2015-16 to date.

Claire Perry

Network Rail has spent the following on car hire:

2014-15: £8,020,720

2015-16: £8,346,337 (year to date)

Highways England (Formerly the Highways Agency) has spent the following on car hire:

2014-15: £631,902

2015-16: £752,847 (year to date)

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Lilian Greenwood on 2016-03-02.

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many miles on what sections of the motorway network have been converted to Managed Motorways-All Lane Running (MM-ALR) status; and how many additional miles on which sections of the network Highways England plans to convert to MM-ALR by 2020.

Andrew Jones

The information requested is in the table below:

All Lane Running Scheme – Open for Traffic
Scheme Name	Scheme Length (miles)	Additional lane miles
M25 J5-6/7	12.4	18.6
M25 J23-27	16.0	33.3
M1 J39-42	6.7	13.0
M6 J10a-13	9.6	19.0
All Lane Running Schemes – To be added by 2020
Scheme Name	Scheme Length (miles)	Additional lane miles
M1 J28-31	18.9	38.5
M1 J32-35a	9.1	17.9
M62 J18-20	5.1	9.0
M3 J2-4a	13.4	26.8
M23 J8-10	10.4	20.8
M1 J24-25	5.2	10.4
M6 J16-19	18.2	36.4
M5 J4a-6	8.8	17.6
M60 J24-27 and J1-4	7.4	14.9
M6 J21a-26	9.9	19.8
M6 J2-4	11.8	23.6
M20 J3-5	5.6	11.2

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The below Parliamentary question was asked by Lilian Greenwood on 2016-04-12.

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many temporary speed restrictions were in place on the national rail network on 15 March (a) 2016, (b) 2015, (c) 2014 and (d) 2013.

Claire Perry

The number of temporary speed restrictions in place on the national rail network for the dates requested, based on the weekly average during the rail period containing 15^th March each year, is as follows:

(a) 2016 – 374

(b) 2015 – 226

(c) 2014 – 325

(d) 2013 – 270

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Lilian Greenwood on 2016-04-18.

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 18 April 2016 to Question 33749, on Department for Transport: IBM, when the contracts referred to in that Answer were awarded.

Mr Robert Goodwill

My department has 4 contracts with IBM (UK) Ltd and details are contained in the table below

Agency	Purpose of contract	Award date
DfTc	Annual Software maintenance on IBM SPSS licensing for statistical analysis	30/04/2014
DVLA	Q Radar Security Monitoring Tool	28/09/2015
DVLA	IBM Software-Extended Support	01/10/2015
DVLA	IBM Enterprise Licensing Agreement (ELA)	01/01/2016

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Lilian Greenwood on 2016-04-25.

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many vehicles were acquired under the 2009-10 vehicle scrappage scheme; and how many of those vehicles had not been disposed of on the latest date for which figures are available.

Anna Soubry

Under the 2009 Vehicle Scrappage Scheme (VSS) claims were made for 392227 vehicles. A breakdown of that figure by make and model is available on our website, gov.uk. In order for a claim to be made under the VSS, a Certificate of Destruction (CoD), issued by an Authorised Treatment Facility (ATF) for the old vehicle had to be provided by the car dealer to the manufacturer. Beyond the CoD, the arrangements covering disposal of the old vehicle, and any associated costs, sat outside the scheme. The physical treatment chain was not a condition of the Scheme and therefore the Department does not hold any information relating to this. The Environment Agency is the responsible authority for compliance with the permit requirements for Authorised Treatment Facilities (ATF).

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Lilian Greenwood on 2016-05-04.

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 4 May 2016 to Question 36121, whether Network Rail plans to meet the full cost of the planned Market Harborough straightening works.

Claire Perry

We expect Network Rail to deliver on our record investment in the rail network. In this case Network Rail is collaborating with Local Enterprise Partnerships to ensure the scheme is delivered.