Asked by: Sarah Olney (Liberal Democrat - Richmond Park)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will make an estimate of the potential impact of (a) inflation and (b) wider trends in the cost of (i) concrete, (ii) steel and (iii) other building materials on the cost of Hammersmith Bridge strengthening works.
Answered by Richard Holden - Minister without Portfolio (Cabinet Office)
The London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham is the asset owner of Hammersmith Bridge and the project lead for its repair and restoration.
The Department for Transport is providing every assistance to the Council and TfL in helping them resolve the issues the bridge faces.
Asked by: Sarah Olney (Liberal Democrat - Richmond Park)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, when he will publish the travel time measures for the Strategic Road Network and local A roads: January to December 2022.
Answered by Richard Holden - Minister without Portfolio (Cabinet Office)
The travel time measures for the Strategic Road Network and Local ‘A’ roads: January to December 2022 publication is released Thursday 9th March 2023 at 9.30 am as per the forthcoming release schedule.
Asked by: Sarah Olney (Liberal Democrat - Richmond Park)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many crimes have been committed on (a) buses and (b) trains in each region of England in each of the last five years.
Answered by Richard Holden - Minister without Portfolio (Cabinet Office)
Information on crimes committed on buses is collected by local police forces. The Government wants bus services to be safe and perceived to be safe by all. The National Bus Strategy required local authorities to set out in their Bus Service Improvement Plans, how local authorities and bus operators will ensure this is delivered.
Rail crime data is recorded by the British Transport Police (BTP) and they publish statistical bulletins each year which can be found on their website.
Asked by: Sarah Olney (Liberal Democrat - Richmond Park)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many domestic flights have been taken by officials in tis Department in each of the last 5 years.
Answered by Jesse Norman
The information on domestic flights booked by Central Department officials since January 2018, through the Department’s travel booking supplier is:
Period | Domestic Flights Booked |
2018 | 436 |
2019 | 281 |
2020 | 146 |
2021 | 92 |
2022 | 230 |
Asked by: Sarah Olney (Liberal Democrat - Richmond Park)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether he has plans to improve public transport in order to ensure a viable alternative means of transport to electric cars once petrol vehicles are banned after 2030.
Answered by Richard Holden - Minister without Portfolio (Cabinet Office)
This department supports a range of choices in transport and expects to do so into the future.
Asked by: Sarah Olney (Liberal Democrat - Richmond Park)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether he plans to take steps to ensure that all public electric vehicle chargers must (a) allow for direct card payment and (b) not require the use of an app.
Answered by Jesse Norman
In coming months, the Government expects to pass regulations to mandate that contactless payment is available at all newly installed chargepoints capable of charging over 7.1kW. This requirement will extend to all existing chargepoints at 50kW and over, one year after the legislation comes into effect.
The Government has also announced its intention to mandate payment roaming to enable streamlined payment without the need for numerous apps. All chargepoint operators will need to offer roaming at all of their public chargepoints by connecting to a third party roaming provider. Consumers will be able to pay to charge across multiple networks using a single app or RFID (radio frequency identity) card.
Asked by: Sarah Olney (Liberal Democrat - Richmond Park)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many electric vehicles were purchased in London in each of the last five years; and what proportion of all electric vehicles purchased in that period in England were purchased in London.
Answered by Jesse Norman
The number of battery electric vehicles registered for the first time in London and England are outlined below:
Year | London | England | London / England (%) |
2017 | 2,892 | 14,031 | 21% |
2018 | 2,918 | 16,336 | 18% |
2019 | 5,345 | 39,187 | 14% |
2020 | 10,143 | 104,974 | 10% |
2021 | 21,863 | 191,826 | 11% |
Year to Sep-2022 | 19,536 | 175,977 | 11% |
Source: DfT and DVLA
Asked by: Sarah Olney (Liberal Democrat - Richmond Park)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many electric vehicle charging points there has been in each region of the UK in each of the last five years.
Answered by Jesse Norman
The Department holds data on the number of publicly available electric vehicle charging devices in the UK as provided by the electric vehicle and charging point platform Zap-Map.
It also holds information on chargepoints and sockets that have been applied for and installed under one of the Office for Zero Emission Vehicles (OZEV) provided grant schemes in public, residential and workplace locations. Information on chargepoints that have been privately installed are not held, therefore the total count of charging devices in the UK will be higher than the figures given below.
DfT began collecting the number of publicly available chargepoints at midnight on 01 October 2019. This data is given in the table below:
Table 1: Total number of publicly available charging devices, as at midnight 01 October 2022 from 2019 onwards
Region Name | October 2019 | October 2020 | October 2021 | October 2022 |
United Kingdom | 15,116 | 19,487 | 25,927 | 34,637 |
North East | 738 | 849 | 916 | 1142 |
North West | 1,204 | 1,403 | 1,725 | 2,188 |
Yorkshire and the Humber | 664 | 996 | 1,327 | 1,839 |
East Midlands | 743 | 1,029 | 1,413 | 1,842 |
West Midlands | 815 | 1,141 | 1,723 | 2,516 |
East of England | 909 | 1,229 | 1,667 | 2,269 |
London | 4,360 | 5,655 | 7,865 | 11,028 |
South East | 1,966 | 2,649 | 3,416 | 4,562 |
South West | 1,150 | 1,505 | 1,873 | 2,388 |
Wales | 529 | 675 | 994 | 1249 |
Scotland | 1,743 | 2,038 | 2,676 | 3,272 |
Northern Ireland | 295 | 318 | 332 | 342 |
Data on electric vehicle charging devices installed under each OZEV funded grant scheme are given in the following tables.
Table 2a: Electric Vehicle Homecharge Scheme (EVHS) charging devices installed each year, as of 1 October 2022
Region | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 |
United Kingdom | 21,614 | 25,993 | 54,197 | 115,799 | 70,682 |
North East | 690 | 681 | 2,188 | 4,842 | 2,535 |
North West | 1,982 | 2,199 | 6,005 | 13,034 | 8,269 |
Yorkshire and the Humber | 1,564 | 1,859 | 4,614 | 9,566 | 5,774 |
East Midlands | 1,703 | 1,959 | 4,143 | 9,783 | 5,983 |
West Midlands | 1,795 | 2,067 | 4,747 | 10,499 | 6,597 |
East of England | 2,464 | 2,964 | 5,893 | 12,958 | 7,808 |
London | 2,018 | 2,902 | 4,168 | 8,120 | 4,778 |
South East | 4,509 | 5,431 | 10,167 | 21,057 | 12,117 |
South West | 2,011 | 2,481 | 4,982 | 9,929 | 5,751 |
Scotland | 1,729 | 2,060 | 3,728 | 8,439 | 5,942 |
Wales | 661 | 664 | 1,985 | 4,605 | 2,903 |
Northern Ireland | 397 | 350 | 807 | 1,871 | 1,288 |
Unknown | 91 | 376 | 770 | 1,096 | 937 |
Table 2b: Electric Vehicle Chargepoint Grant (EVCG) which launched in April 2022: Charging sockets installed, as of 1 October 2022
Year | Charging Sockets Installed |
2022 | 972 |
Note: regional breakdowns of these figures are not yet available.
Table 3: On-Street Residential Scheme (ORCS) number of completed installations each financial year, from the scheme start date in 2019, as of 1 October 2022
Region | Financial Year Ending (FYE) 2018 | FYE 2019 | FYE 2020 | FYE 2021 | FYE 2022 | Grand Total |
North East | 0 | 6 | 5 | 25 | 0 | 36 |
North West | 0 | 74 | 94 | 22 | 1 | 191 |
Yorkshire and the Humber | 0 | 0 | 41 | 38 | 0 | 79 |
East Midlands | 0 | 27 | 47 | 125 | 14 | 213 |
West Midlands | 0 | 72 | 171 | 229 | 155 | 627 |
East of England | 0 | 44 | 34 | 112 | 0 | 190 |
London | 50 | 77 | 496 | 536 | 44 | 1,203 |
South East | 0 | 96 | 250 | 107 | 27 | 480 |
South West | 0 | 1 | 0 | 11 | 21 | 33 |
Wales | 0 | 10 | 105 | 5 | 0 | 120 |
Scotland | 0 | 22 | 28 | 18 | 41 | 109 |
Northern Ireland | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Grand Total | 50 | 429 | 1,271 | 1,228 | 303 | 3,281 |
Table 4a: Workplace Charging Scheme (WCS) total number of sockets installed by region, as of 1 October 2022. Yearly installations by region are not available due to the small size of the data set.
Region | Sockets Installed |
United Kingdom | 36,275 |
North East | 1,644 |
North West | 4,131 |
Yorkshire and the Humber | 3,789 |
East Midlands | 3,403 |
West Midlands | 3,710 |
East of England | 4,519 |
London | 2,225 |
South East | 5,308 |
South West | 3,272 |
Scotland | 2,212 |
Wales | 1,376 |
Northern Ireland | 686 |
Table 4b: Workplace Charging Scheme (WCS) total number of sockets installed each year, as of 1 October 2022
Year | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022* |
Sockets Installed | 1,656 | 4,522 | 6,257 | 11,093 | 11,891 |
* 2022 only includes data up to 1 October.
Data from the tables above cannot be combined to create a total, as charging devices from Table 3 are within public areas and there could already be included within the public charging devices dataset provided by Zap-Map.
Asked by: Sarah Olney (Liberal Democrat - Richmond Park)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many of his Department's (a) laptops, (b) mobile phones, (c) memory sticks and (d) external hard drives have been lost or stolen in each of the last five years.
Answered by Jesse Norman
DfT has recorded the total number for all agencies of devices reported lost/stolen from 2018 – 2022 as below.
| Laptops | Mobiles | Memory Sticks | External Hard Drive |
2018 | 14 | 50 | 1 | 0 |
2019 | 39 | 80 | 0 | 0 |
2020 | 13 | 30 | 0 | 0 |
2021 | 12 | 33 | 1 | 0 |
2022 | 34 | 46 | 4 | 0 |
If a member of staff reports a device as lost or stolen, DfT will try and issue a remote wipe of the device and request that the IMEI is blocked. Laptops are fully encrypted.
Asked by: Sarah Olney (Liberal Democrat - Richmond Park)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many and what proportion of train stations in (a) Surrey, (b) Hampshire, (c) Buckinghamshire and (d) Cambridgeshire have contactless pay-as-you go ticketing as of 1 November 2022.
Answered by Huw Merriman - Minister of State (Department for Transport)
Whilst we do not hold data by county, contactless pay-as-you-go ticketing extends to many stations around London, including Epsom in Surrey and Amersham in Buckinghamshire, via Transport for London’s Contactless system.
Pay-as-you-go is also available via smartcard products, such as KeyGo and Tap2Go, which cover some of Surrey and Cambridgeshire, and the majority of Hampshire.