Asked by: Emily Thornberry (Labour - Islington South and Finsbury)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to Cabinet Office statistics on Permanent and temporary civil servants by sex, age band and department: 2023, published on 31 October 2023; how many permanent civil servants other than those working in agencies worked for his Department on 31 March (a) 2011, (b) 2016 and (c) 2020.
Answered by Anthony Browne
The headcount for permanent civil servants working for the core Department for Transport in March 2011 was 1822, in March 2016 it was 2065, and in March 2020 it was 2937.
The full data sets are published on gov.uk under DfT workforce management information.
Asked by: Emily Thornberry (Labour - Islington South and Finsbury)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 6 December 2022 to Question 97597 on Department for Transport: Incentives, what the total value was of non-cash vouchers awarded to staff working for his core Department as performance-related bonuses in 2022-23.
Answered by Jesse Norman - Shadow Leader of the House of Commons
Issuing non-cash vouchers is a standard practice across Government and is part of DfT’s reward and recognition scheme.
The total value of non-cash vouchers awarded to staff working for DfT’s core department in 2022-23 is £181,020.
Asked by: Emily Thornberry (Labour - Islington South and Finsbury)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 11 September 2023 to Question 197747, whether the equivalent surveys undertaken in October and December 2021 by Faithful and Gould Ltd. at a cost of £97,472.78 to the DVSA were considered insufficient to assess the use of reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete across the DVSA estate.
Answered by Richard Holden - Shadow Secretary of State for Transport
The Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA), like other Government Departments, has been asked to report on RAAC in their estates as soon as possible.
For now, the focus is on bringing together the information we hold about the Government estate into one place. The Office for Government Property are coordinating this work.
Asked by: Emily Thornberry (Labour - Islington South and Finsbury)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 7 September to Question 197409, how many and what proportion of the violence against the person offences recorded in (a) 2021-22 and (b) 2022-23 were committed against women.
Answered by Huw Merriman
| 2021-22 | 2022-23 |
Violence against the person where victim is recorded as female | 3,276 (28%) | 3,847 (30%) |
Asked by: Emily Thornberry (Labour - Islington South and Finsbury)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many buildings used by the Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency have been surveyed to assess the presence of reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete; over what period that work took place; and what the results were of that survey.
Answered by Richard Holden - Shadow Secretary of State for Transport
DVSA is currently undergoing a review of the use of RAAC across the estate as a priority. Once this is concluded, they will supply their findings to the Department.
Asked by: Emily Thornberry (Labour - Islington South and Finsbury)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to the British Transport Police Authority publication entitled British Transport Police Fund Annual Report and Accounts for the year ending 31 March 2023, page 16, published on 14 August 2023, whether the reported figures for (a) sexual offences and (b) crimes involving harassment exclusively relate to crimes against women and girls.
Answered by Huw Merriman
The reported figures for (a) sexual offences and (b) crimes involving harassment do not exclusively relate to crimes against women and girls although the majority of both offences are against females.
Asked by: Emily Thornberry (Labour - Islington South and Finsbury)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to the British Transport Police Authority publication entitled British Transport Police Fund Annual Report and Accounts for the year ending 31 March 2023, page 16, published on 14 August 2023, what were the equivalent figures for the crimes in reference 3 for financial years (a) 2018-19, (b) 2019-20 and (c) 2020-21.
Answered by Huw Merriman
The crime types include Sexual Offences, Violence Against Women and Girls and Sexual Harassment. However, please note that Sexual Harassment figures were not recorded by British Transport Police until 2021/22.
Sexual Offences
2018-2019 | 2,612 |
2019-2020 | 2,419 |
2020-2021 | 1,021 |
Violence Against Women and Girls
2018-2019 | 8,914 |
2019-2020 | 8,831 |
2020-2021 | 4,314 |
Asked by: Emily Thornberry (Labour - Islington South and Finsbury)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to the British Transport Police Authority publication entitled British Transport Police Fund Annual Report and Accounts for the year ending 31 March 2023, page 16, published on 14 August 2023, whether the reported figures for (a) sexual offences and (b) crimes involving harassment are each a subset of the total reported figures for violent crimes against women and girls; and whether the reported figures for violent crimes against women and girls used in footnote 3 is a subset of the figures referenced in footnote 2 for violence against the person.
Answered by Huw Merriman
It is correct that the reported figures for (a) sexual offences and (b) crimes involving harassment are each a subset of the total reported figures for violent crimes against women and girls.
In regard to footnote 3, the figures are not a subset of footnote 2. These include violent crimes against women and girls including violence against the person offences, alongside sexual and public order offences, where the victim stated is female.
Asked by: Emily Thornberry (Labour - Islington South and Finsbury)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 18 July 2023 to Question 193064 on Aviation: Security, which UK airports (a) installed Next Generation Security Checkpoints before 15 December 2022, (b) installed Next Generation Security Checkpoints between 15 December 2022 and 18 July 2023 and (c) are expected to install Next Generation Security Checkpoints before 1 August 2023.
Answered by Jesse Norman - Shadow Leader of the House of Commons
A number of airports have been trialling the Next Generation Security Checkpoint (NGSC) technology and operational processes since 2018 and therefore have had this technology in place in trial lanes prior to 15 December 2022. In addition to these trials, two airports installed some NGSC equipment between 15 December 2022 and 18 July 2023 which they now use across all their passenger security lanes. Airports are currently rolling out the new technology, but none has completed full installation between 18 July 2023 and 1 August 2023.
Asked by: Emily Thornberry (Labour - Islington South and Finsbury)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to sub-target two of the Greening Government Commitments reporting requirements for 2021 to 2025 last updated on 15 December 2022, whether his Department follows the encouragement in that guidance to (a) monitor and (b) report on the number of domestic flights for which her Department is responsible each year; and how many domestic flights were taken by Ministers in his Department in (i) 2021 and (ii) 2022.
Answered by Jesse Norman - Shadow Leader of the House of Commons
The Department for Transport is COVERED BY the Government Greening Commitments and reports its performance against the targets quarterly to DEFRA. Department for Transport policy supports the limited use of domestic air travel.
The 2022-23 accounts published on Thursday 20 July 2023 outline the latest data on actual emissions concerning domestic flights undertaken by DfT officials and report a 55% reduction on 2017-18.
Ministers took 3 domestic flights in 2021 and 3 flights in 2022.