Asked by: David Davis (Conservative - Goole and Pocklington)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what plans he has to ensure Yorkshire has good transport links to the proposed HS2 route.
Answered by Nusrat Ghani
Officials are working closely with Leeds City Council and the city region and Sheffield City Region to ensure Yorkshire has good transport links to the proposed HS2 route.
To support this, I provided Leeds and Sheffield city regions with funding to prepare Growth Strategies. These growth strategies cover how transport links will spread the benefit of HS2 across Yorkshire.
Furthermore, Yorkshire will be at the heart of the proposed Northern Powerhouse Rail network with stations in Leeds, Sheffield, York and Hull boosting connectivity across the north of England.
Asked by: David Davis (Conservative - Goole and Pocklington)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how much funding his Department has allocated for road improvement works in (a) Yorkshire and the Humber and (b) the Haltemprice and Howden constituency.
Answered by Jesse Norman - Shadow Leader of the House of Commons
The funding provided by the Department for Transport for local highway maintenance to East Riding of Yorkshire Council and for highway authorities which fall within the Yorkshire and the Humber area since 2010 is shown in the table below. This includes an additional £4.8 million allocated this financial year to East Riding and a further £42 million for Yorkshire and the Humber for local highways maintenance.
Year | Funding Stream | East Riding £M | Yorkshire and Humber £M |
2010/11 | Highways Maintenance Block | 9.264 | 95.490 |
June 2010 | Severe Weather | 1.011 | 8.670 |
March 2011 | Severe Weather | 2.420 | 20.900 |
2011/12 | Highways Maintenance Block | 9.921 | 87.562 |
2012/13 | Highways Maintenance Block | 9.479 | 84.412 |
2013/14 | Highways Maintenance Block (including top up) | 10.832 | 93.739 |
March 2014 | Wet Weather | 1.302 | 10.356 |
2014/15 | Highways Maintenance Block (including top up) | 9.899 | 82.756 |
2014/15 | Pothole Fund | 2.565 | 15.802 |
2015/16 | Highways Maintenance Block | 11.047 | 93.596 |
2016/17 | Highways Maintenance Block (including incentive element) | 10.746 | 91.049 |
2016/17 | Pothole Action Fund | 0.690 | 5.220 |
2017//18 | Highways Maintenance Block (including incentive element) | 10.766 | 91.118 |
2017/18 | Pothole Action Fund | 1.526 | 12.442 |
2017/18 | Flood Resilience Fund | 0.610 | 4.981 |
2018/19 | Highways Maintenance Block (including incentive element) | 10.755 | 90.677 |
2018/19 | Pothole Action Fund | 0.642 | 5.243 |
2018/19 | Budget £420 million | 4.897 | 42.090 |
Total |
| 108.372 | 936.103 |
Asked by: David Davis (Conservative - Goole and Pocklington)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what estimate he has made of the cost to the public purse of ensuring that all railways stations are fully accessible to disabled passengers.
Answered by Claire Perry
Many of our stations date from the Victorian era when accessibility was not considered and, although we have made no detailed assessment of the likely cost, we do not underestimate the scale of the problem. We have therefore continued with the Access for All programme and extended it to 2019. By then more than £500m will have been spent providing an accessible route at over 220 stations and smaller scale access improvements at nearly half of the UK’s stations. In addition, any infrastructure work carried out at stations must meet current UK and EU accessibility standards.
Asked by: David Davis (Conservative - Goole and Pocklington)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what estimate he has made of the number of stations that will be only partially accessible to disabled passengers in 2020.
Answered by Claire Perry
The 2020 end date applies to rolling stock accessibility and not stations. However, when infrastructure work is carried out at stations it must meet EU and UK accessibility standards. In addition, the Access for All programme will have provided step free routes at more than 220 stations by 2019 and has already delivered smaller scale access improvements at more than 1,100 stations.
Asked by: David Davis (Conservative - Goole and Pocklington)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many railway stations in (a) England, (b) East Riding of Yorkshire and (c) Haltemprice and Howden constituency do not have disability access.
Answered by Claire Perry
Information on the accessibility of individual railway stations is collected by the Association of Train Operating Companies and published as part of the Stations Made Easy facility on the National Rail Enquiries website at:
http://www.nationalrail.co.uk/stations_destinations/default.aspx
Asked by: David Davis (Conservative - Goole and Pocklington)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether he plans to extend the Access for All funding to Gilberdyke Railway Station.
Answered by Claire Perry
In 2013 the rail industry was asked to nominate stations for the additional £160m made available to extend Access for All until 2019. Gilberdyke was not put forward and could not therefore be considered for funding.
Asked by: David Davis (Conservative - Goole and Pocklington)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what estimate he has made of the number of railway stations in (a) England, (b) East Riding of Yorkshire and (c) Haltemprice and Howden constituency that will have full disability access by 2020.
Answered by Claire Perry
Information on the accessibility of individual railway stations is collected by the Association of Train Operating Companies and published as part of the Stations Made Easy facility on the National Rail Enquiries website at:
http://www.nationalrail.co.uk/stations_destinations/default.aspx
Asked by: David Davis (Conservative - Goole and Pocklington)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what plans he has to improve disability access to Gilberdyke Railway Station.
Answered by Claire Perry
All of the available Access for All funding is now committed until 2019 and Gilberdyke station was not nominated by the industry for the programme. We are not aware of any industry or third party plans to improve access at the station.
Asked by: David Davis (Conservative - Goole and Pocklington)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what recent meetings he has had with representatives of First Hull Trains on the extension of their track-access arrangements beyond December 2016.
Answered by Claire Perry
Open Access operators apply to the Office of Rail Regulation for the necessary access rights and to Network Rail for paths in the timetable.The Department for Transport has no say in this regulatory process.
Therefore, there have been no recent meetings with representatives of First Hull Trains on the extension of their track-access arrangements beyond December 2016.