Asked by: Andrea Jenkyns (Conservative - Morley and Outwood)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment he has made of the implication for his policies of the report by Oxford Economics on behalf of the Railway Industry Association, published in February 2018.
Answered by Lord Johnson of Marylebone
The Government welcomes the report by Oxford Economics on behalf of the Railway Industry Association, entitled “The Economic Contribution of UK Rail 2018”. My officials will be reviewing the report in detail, to consider how and where it might be used to inform future policies.
Asked by: Andrea Jenkyns (Conservative - Morley and Outwood)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what progress has been made in introducing Pothole Spotter systems.
Answered by Andrew Jones
The Department for Transport announced in January 2017 that we were undertaking a new innovative trial on the way potholes are identified and managed.
The Department for Transport is working in partnership with Thurrock, York and Wiltshire councils and two private sector SME’s, Soenecs and Gaist, to undertake this trial which allows high-definition cameras to be mounted to refuse collection vehicles and by deploying innovative intelligent software will identify road surface problems before they become potholes.
The trial has now commenced in Thurrock and Wiltshire and is expected to commence shortly in York once we have finalised the programme with the council.