Written Question
Thursday 21st July 2016
Asked by:
James Cartlidge (Conservative - South Suffolk)
Question
to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what progress he has made on providing a further round of accessibility funding for (a) lifts and (b) other accessibility devices at mainline railway stations; and if he will make a statement.
Answered by Paul Maynard
The Access for All programme has delivered accessible step-free routes at over 150 stations since 2006, with smaller scale access improvements at more than 1,500 stations. To build on this success, we made a further £160m available to extend the programme, providing step-free routes at a further 68 stations. This is in addition to access improvements delivered as part of other major projects, such as Crossrail which will deliver step-free routes at another 40 stations. No decision has been made on the overall rail funding package, including funding for accessibility improvements, for Control Period 6 (2019-2024).
Written Question
Wednesday 4th May 2016
Asked by:
James Cartlidge (Conservative - South Suffolk)
Question
to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how much revenue was raised from fines levied on heavy goods vehicles for exceeding weight restrictions on weight restricted roads in the last year for which figures are available.
Answered by Andrew Jones
Penalties related to heavy goods vehicles exceeding weight restrictions on weight restricted roads in England outside London are applied under the criminal justice system. I have been advised by the Ministry of Justice that this specific information is not held. Collating this information would incur a disproportionate cost, because individual cases would need to be looked at. My Department does not hold figures for the civil enforcement fines for this infringement applied by local authorities in London.
Speech in Westminster Hall - Tue 22 Mar 2016
GPS and Heavy Goods Vehicles
"I congratulate my hon. Friend, who is making an excellent speech on a subject that is important to my constituency. He mentions the wizardry involved. He may be interested to learn—I will talk about this later—that one of the houses in my constituency that is most frequently damaged by HGVs …..."James Cartlidge - View Speech
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Tue 22 Mar 2016
GPS and Heavy Goods Vehicles
"I want to go back to the point that my hon. Friend the Member for High Peak (Andrew Bingham) made. My hon. Friend the Member for South Thanet (Craig Mackinlay) is talking a lot about technology, and I must admit that I do not have the same level of expertise …..."James Cartlidge - View Speech
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Tue 22 Mar 2016
GPS and Heavy Goods Vehicles
"It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Sir Alan. Again, I congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for South Thanet (Craig Mackinlay) on securing this timely debate. I am here because I receive constant email correspondence on the subject, which I regard as one of the biggest issues …..."James Cartlidge - View Speech
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Tue 22 Mar 2016
GPS and Heavy Goods Vehicles
"Obviously, I agree with the Minister about not wanting to regulate if we do not need to, and I am aware of the point about signs. However, my experience is that signs often do not work with HGVs. If, as the years progress, we continue to have these problems, if …..."James Cartlidge - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 10 Mar 2016
Flexible Ticketing: Rail Transport
"It is a great privilege to be called to speak in my first Adjournment debate, Mr Deputy Speaker, and for it to arrive early, which is not something we can always say about trains on the great eastern main line.
The great eastern main line is a massive issue for …..."James Cartlidge - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 10 Mar 2016
Flexible Ticketing: Rail Transport
"Calm down. It is from Deborah Adams of Sudbury. Sudbury is the main town in my constituency—a beautiful market town; the home of the great Thomas Gainsborough. She writes:
“A few years ago David Cameron announced the phased introduction of flexible season tickets for rail travel. As someone that commutes …..."James Cartlidge - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 10 Mar 2016
Flexible Ticketing: Rail Transport
"My hon. Friend makes an excellent point. I will talk about technology later in my remarks.
Another email that hits on some other points is from Russell Badrick, a solicitor who works in London but lives in Nayland, a beautiful village on the Suffolk-Essex border by the river Stour. He …..."James Cartlidge - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 10 Mar 2016
Flexible Ticketing: Rail Transport
"My hon. Friend makes an excellent point. When I had the pleasure of campaigning in his by-election, I remarked that I was in a beautiful part of his constituency.
Before turning to the points made by my commuting constituents, I want to set the context of South Suffolk. In many …..."James Cartlidge - View Speech
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