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Written Question
Electric Vehicles: Insurance
Thursday 26th October 2023

Asked by: Andrea Jenkyns (Conservative - Morley and Outwood)

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will make an assessment of the potential impact of the Government's net zero policies on the cost of insurance for electric vehicles.

Answered by Jesse Norman

The transition to zero emission vehicles is crucial to the decarbonisation of the transport sector. Electric vehicles offer most drivers savings in terms of lower running and maintenance costs. The Government is working closely with the insurance sector to ensure that the transition to zero emission vehicles is sustainable and cost effective. The insurance sector will continue to evolve in line with the growing EV market, and as data becomes more available to inform insurance premiums.


Written Question
Buses: Exhaust Emissions
Monday 24th April 2023

Asked by: Andrea Jenkyns (Conservative - Morley and Outwood)

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will make an assessment of the impact of the Zero Emission Bus Regional Areas scheme on West Yorkshire.

Answered by Richard Holden - Minister without Portfolio (Cabinet Office)

We are committed to supporting the introduction of 4,000 zero emission buses and achieving an all zero-emission bus fleet across the entire UK. Across the UK, an estimated 3,400 zero emission buses have been funded so far.

The West Yorkshire Combined Authority received £30.3 million from the Zero Emission Bus Regional Areas scheme which will support the introduction of 136 zero emission buses.

We will publish the first report from the Department’s monitoring and evaluation project for the ZEBRA scheme, covering process evaluation of the pre-implementation phase of the project, in due course.


Written Question
Trains: Morley and Outwood
Tuesday 7th September 2021

Asked by: Andrea Jenkyns (Conservative - Morley and Outwood)

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps he is taking to upgrade trains which travel through Morley and Outwood constituency.

Answered by Chris Heaton-Harris - Secretary of State for Northern Ireland

All Northern’s fleet travelling through Morley and Outwood constituency will either be new or refurbished trains with the digital upgrades due to be completed by 31 December 2021.


Written Question
Commuters: Morley and Outwood
Tuesday 7th September 2021

Asked by: Andrea Jenkyns (Conservative - Morley and Outwood)

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps his Department is taking to reduce the average commuter time for residents in the Morley and Outwood constituency.

Answered by Chris Heaton-Harris - Secretary of State for Northern Ireland

The Transpennine Route Upgrade (TRU) programme is a multi-billion-pound investment and the Government’s largest single investment in upgrading the country’s existing railway in the next five years. TRU will deliver extensive reliability, capacity and journey time improvements across the key east to west route, from Manchester Victoria to York, via Morley. Network Rail continue to progress development and design of the programme.


Written Question
Roads: Yorkshire and the Humber
Monday 6th September 2021

Asked by: Andrea Jenkyns (Conservative - Morley and Outwood)

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps his Department is taking to reduce the number of fatalities on roads in Yorkshire.

Answered by Rachel Maclean

Road safety is a priority for the Government and the Department for Transport is working with road safety stakeholders to reduce the number of people killed or seriously injured on our roads. We have some of the safest roads in the world, but the Government is not complacent and there is more work to be done.

As part of our in Safer Roads funding to help reduce the number of deaths and serious injury on England’s 50 most dangerous roads, North Yorkshire County Council benefitted from a total of £11.5 million to improve four roads.

The Government is also currently progressing a review into roads policing and traffic enforcement. This review will not only highlight where police forces are doing good work, it will show what more can be done to improve road safety.


Written Question
Transport: Young People
Tuesday 27th July 2021

Asked by: Andrea Jenkyns (Conservative - Morley and Outwood)

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps his Department is taking to encourage young people to enter the transport industry.

Answered by Andrew Stephenson - Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)

The Department for Transport is leading efforts to promote training and career opportunities for young people in the transport sector. This will help ensure we can deliver the huge investment we are making in our transport system and help build the skilled workforce for the coming decades. Some of the steps we are taking include:

  • Continuing to work with the Department for Education to ensure that Adult Education policy and Further Education reform proposals reflect the needs of the transport industry, and will work with our stakeholders to use the Department for Work and Pensions Kickstart scheme.

  • Supporting science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) activity including by being a founding signatory of the Department for Educations ‘Tomorrow’s Engineers Code’, which aims to increase and support the number of young people taking up STEM subjects, making careers in engineering accessible and a reality for future generations.

In the coming months we also plan to publish a Transport Labour Market and Skills Discussion Paper. This will set out the labour market and skills challenges and opportunities for the transport sector post Covid and how we plan to build a pipeline of talent for the future. We will use this as the basis of consultation with industry and other stakeholders to find out what more we can do to make progress in this vital area.


Written Question
Large Goods Vehicle Drivers: Qualifications
Tuesday 27th July 2021

Asked by: Andrea Jenkyns (Conservative - Morley and Outwood)

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether his Department has made an assessment of the potential merits of providing grants to people wishing to undertake large goods vehicle driving qualifications.

Answered by Rachel Maclean

We know that the costs of training can be a barrier both to new entrants and business. We are already supporting the industry train new drivers, including through apprenticeships and support for jobseekers.

The new apprenticeship which includes training for a Category C+E licence, which is available from 2 August, will attract £7,000 in funding. There is also an incentive payment of £3,000 available for new apprentices who have an employment start date of 1 April 2021 to 30 September 2021.

A number of proposals to further support the training of heavy goods vehicle drivers have been put forward by industry sources and we are reviewing these proposals. We wish to support the sector in overcoming these barriers to joining this vital industry.


Written Question
Large Goods Vehicle Drivers: Driving Licences
Tuesday 27th July 2021

Asked by: Andrea Jenkyns (Conservative - Morley and Outwood)

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment his Department has made of the potential merits of reducing the number of steps in the process for a driver to become licensed to operate a large goods vehicle.

Answered by Rachel Maclean

The government has just announced there is to be a consultation on a series of measures designed to help increase the number of HGV drivers, this includes the potential removal of the requirement to hold a full rigid lorry licence before taking a test in an articulated vehicle. The forthcoming consultation will help to inform the merits of the proposals.


Written Question
Large Goods Vehicle Drivers: Driving Tests
Tuesday 27th July 2021

Asked by: Andrea Jenkyns (Conservative - Morley and Outwood)

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what estimate his Department has made of when the backlog of large good vehicles licence testing will be cleared.

Answered by Rachel Maclean

DVSA meet regularly with the vocational training industry to understand the current and future demand for vocational driving tests so that the Agency can better plan the additional capacity that is needed. DVSA are currently making available an average of 3,000 vocational tests per week compared to 2,000 pre-pandemic.

Operational steps to further increase capacity have been recently announced and, subject to a forthcoming consultation, additional regulatory measures will significant add further to test capacity. Regular progress updates will be made available.


Written Question
Large Goods Vehicles: Parking
Tuesday 27th July 2021

Asked by: Andrea Jenkyns (Conservative - Morley and Outwood)

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that overnight parking facilities for large vehicle drivers are reopened following the easing of covid-19 restrictions.

Answered by Rachel Maclean

Motorway Service Areas in England, which are privately owned and operated, remained open during COVID restrictions, and overnight parking therefore remained available at these sites. In addition, other lorry parks are also privately owned and operated businesses, and decisions on opening are a matter for them.

Although most legal restrictions have been lifted, the Government continues to provide guidance for businesses in managing the continuing risk of the pandemic.