Asked by: Mary Creagh (Labour - Wakefield)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will publish the memorandum of understanding sent from the Cabinet Office to his Department governing the sharing of GOV.UK user data with the Government Digital Service.
Answered by Chris Heaton-Harris - Secretary of State for Northern Ireland
The Government Digital Service (GDS) is implementing end-to-end performance monitoring so that GOV.UK can be designed to ensure that people can access the information and services they need as easily as possible. Departments are enabling GDS to centrally collect data on site usage across the GOV.UK estate, to provide an end to end, anonymised view of how people interact with government online. In developing this project, both GDS and departments have taken into account both the data protection regime and other guidance like the Government’s Data Ethics Framework.
Clear and robust Memorandums of Understanding set out the terms of the project. The MOUs outline the responsibilities of both the GDS and departments in a number of areas, including handling the relevant data to ensure there is no unauthorised access, loss, misuse, modification or disclosure.
The MoUs will be regularly updated in line with the government’s commitment to continuous improvement in digital services and best practice in data and privacy standards. It is a long standing government policy to operate in the spirit of full transparency, and GDS plan to publish the document in due course.
Asked by: Mary Creagh (Labour - Wakefield)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 27 February 2019 to Question 223798 on International Convention for the Control and Management of Ships' Ballast Water and Sediments, what progress his Department has made on compliance with the Ballast Water Management Convention in order to accede to the Convention in Autumn 2019.
Answered by Nusrat Ghani - Minister of State (Minister for Europe)
Good progress is being made on the development of UK regulations in order to accede to the Ballast Water Management Convention. This work was rescheduled in order to ensure that the legislation reflects the newest amendments to the Convention which were accepted by the International Maritime Organization in April 2019.
We are committed to completing the regulations and acceding to the Convention in 2020.
Asked by: Mary Creagh (Labour - Wakefield)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what progress has been made on increasing the number of plug-in cars and vans in each government department’s fleet since 2014; how many plug-in cars and vans were in each fleet as of April 2019; and what proportion that is of the total number of vehicles owned and rented by each government department.
Answered by Jesse Norman
This information is not currently held centrally. However, the Government has committed to electrify 25% of central government cars by 2022, and 100% by 2030. As part of delivering this commitment, from 2019/20 statistics on the share of electric vehicles in each Department’s fleet will be included in the Greening Government Commitments annual report.
Asked by: Mary Creagh (Labour - Wakefield)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what comparative estimate he has made of the number of vehicles (a) used, (b) owned and (c) rented by each Government department and their agencies in London that comply with the Ultra Low Emission Zone standards and the total number of vehicles (i) used, (ii) owned and (iii) rented by each Government department.
Answered by Jesse Norman
The information for each Government Department is not held centrally.
The information for the Government Car Service (GCS), a division of the Department for Transport which operates in London, is below.
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86 | 85 | 1 | 68 | 18 |
Asked by: Mary Creagh (Labour - Wakefield)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many Ultra Low Emission Zone (ULEZ) penalty charge notices that have been issued for non-compliant vehicles used by each government department and their agencies in London since the ULEZ came into force on 8 April 2019.
Answered by Jesse Norman
In London, transport is devolved to the Mayor and delivered by Transport for London (TfL) – this includes the ULEZ.
Since it was introduced on April 8th, the Department does not yet expect TfL to hold any complete data sets on penalty charge notices.
Asked by: Mary Creagh (Labour - Wakefield)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether an environmental impact assessment was conducted prior to establishing Operation Brock.
Answered by Jesse Norman
The contingency traffic management measures of Operation Brock consist of three phases: a queuing and contraflow system between junctions 8 and 9 of the M20 (Brock M20); temporary holding areas at Manston Airport; and, if necessary, temporary holding areas on the M26 (Brock M26), if capacity has been exceeded elsewhere within the Brock suite of measures.
As part of the design process of the Operation Brock measures, Highways England undertook legally required environmental screening exercises. These determined that full Environmental Impact Assessments were not required for either the Brock M20 or Brock M26 measures. The formal Notices of Determination were published in The Gazette on 24 May 2018 and 15 November 2018 respectively.
For Manston Airport, environmental and habitat assessments were carried out to inform the conditions of the Town and Country Planning (Manston Airport) Special Development Order 2019 (SDO), which was laid before Parliament on 23 January 2019.
Asked by: Mary Creagh (Labour - Wakefield)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what environmental impact assessment his Department has made of the plastic road trial in Cumbria.
Answered by Jesse Norman
The Department for Transport announced on 31 January 2019 it was allocating £22.9 million for research and trials on new surface materials for pothole repair. This includes providing £1.6 million to extend an existing trial of the use of plastic roads in Cumbria which is being taken forward by Cumbria County Council, as local highway authority.
As part of this trial, research into both the technology and the environmental impacts of using such materials will be undertaken by Gaist Ltd, the University of Nottingham, the University of Central Lancashire, the University of the Sunshine Coast in Australia, and the University of California, USA.
Asked by: Mary Creagh (Labour - Wakefield)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what Environment Impact Assessment has been undertaken by Seaborne Freight prior to the dredging of the port of Ramsgate.
Answered by Nusrat Ghani - Minister of State (Minister for Europe)
Work undertaken at ports, including compliance with any regulatory standards, is a matter for the relevant port authorities.