Asked by: Ben Bradshaw (Labour - Exeter)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether the Great Western Rail and South Western franchises will be included in his Department's proposals for shared responsibility with Network Rail.
Answered by Paul Maynard - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Work and Pensions)
The Secretary of State outlined his vision for the future alignment of track and train in the Written Ministerial Statement issued on 6 December. The current Great Western Direct Award franchise is assumed to expire March 2020. The Department is exploring a range of delivery options for the Great Western Franchise beyond March 2020 with the aim of closer integration between track and train. The Department is running a competition to award the next South Western franchise, which is expected to start in August 2017. In the Invitation to Tender the Department required the next franchisee to collaborate with Network Rail to improve performance, project delivery and service to passengers. Bidders were required to demonstrate how they had engaged with Network Rail in the development of aligned objectives for the Franchise going forward, including areas for joint working.
Asked by: Ben Bradshaw (Labour - Exeter)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will publish a statement of funds available for the Cycling and Walking Investment Strategy.
Answered by Robert Goodwill
The Department will publish a statement of funds available for the Cycling and Walking Investment Strategy in Spring 2016.
Asked by: Ben Bradshaw (Labour - Exeter)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how much his Department plans to spend in Local Growth Deals announced from 5 December 2014 to 29 January 2015 on (a) roads, (b) public transport, (c) cycling and walking and (d) mixed mode schemes in each Local Enterprise Partnership area in each year from 2015-16 to 2020-21.
Answered by Robert Goodwill
The Government announced an expansion of Growth Deals for Local Enterprise Partnerships (LEPs) on 29 January 2015. This confirmed a total amount of additional funding for each LEP but, unlike the previous announcement in July 2014, did not specify the funding for individual projects that LEPs plan to deliver with this money. This is because many of the projects are at early stages of development and further work is required to finalise business cases, cost estimates and additional funding sources. For that reason it is not possible to provide the precise breakdown requested.
Asked by: Ben Bradshaw (Labour - Exeter)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how much his Department spent on the purchase of televisions in (a) 2013 and (b) 2014 to date.
Answered by Claire Perry
The requested information is provided below.
Organisational Unit | (a) 2013 | (b) 2014 to date. |
London headquarters | - | £2,788 |
Rail Accident Investigation Branch | - | £96 |
Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency1 | £3,120 | £2,729 |
Maritime and Coastguard Agency | £4,423 | - |
Notes: 1) Includes data for former Driving Standards Agency and Vehicle Operator Services Agency
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Asked by: Ben Bradshaw (Labour - Exeter)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many officials employed by his Department, of each grade, have remained at that grade since 2010 but received a pay rise; and how much of a rise each such person at each such grade has received.
Answered by Claire Perry
11,449 officials employed by the Department remained at the same grade and received a pay rise since 2010. The average pay rise over the period for these staff was 6.6%.
Asked by: Ben Bradshaw (Labour - Exeter)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many mobile telephones, BlackBerrys and laptops were lost by his Department in (a) 2013 and (b) 2014 to date.
Answered by Robert Goodwill
The number of mobile telephones, blackberrys and laptops that were reported as lost in 2013 and 2014 to date is set out in the tables. The figures provided are for the entire Department including its executive agencies.
2013
Item | Lost |
Mobile telephones | 22 |
Blackberrys | 33 |
Laptops | 6 |
Total | 61 |
2014
Item | Lost |
Mobile telephones | 12 |
Blackberrys | 13 |
Laptops | 1 |
Total | 26 |
Asked by: Ben Bradshaw (Labour - Exeter)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will estimate the total value of compensation paid out of the public purse for damage to cars by poorly conditioned local roads in (a) 2008-09 and (b) 2009-10.
Answered by Robert Goodwill
The Department for Transport has made no formal estimate of the total value of compensation for cars damaged on the local road network. Local highway authorities are responsible for maintaining local roads in their area and therefore are also responsible for compensation.