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Written Question
High Speed 2 Railway Line: Stafford
Tuesday 16th January 2018

Asked by: Jeremy Lefroy (Conservative - Stafford)

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many houses in Stafford constituency have been purchased by the (a) Need to Sell scheme, (b) Statutory Blight scheme, (c) Express Purchase scheme and (d) other schemes since each scheme was launched; and what the average cost is of each such purchase.

Answered by Nusrat Ghani

The number and average value of houses purchased in the Stafford constituency broken down by HS2 scheme is as follows

HS2 Scheme

Number of Homes Purchased

Average Value of Purchase

Exceptional Hardship Scheme (Note 1)

15

£404,147

Need to Sell

7

£403,428

Statutory Blight

6

£614,167

Rural Support Zone Voluntary Purchase

2

£420,000

Note 1 - In May 2016 the Exceptional Hardship Scheme was withdrawn for the Phase 2a section of HS2 when the Need to Sell scheme was confirmed for this part of the route.

Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 30 Nov 2017
Oral Answers to Questions

"4. What steps he is taking to maintain the operation of national road infrastructure during the construction of High Speed 2. ..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 30 Nov 2017
Oral Answers to Questions

"At the risk of clogging up my hon. Friend’s diary, will he meet me, other Staffordshire MPs and representatives from Staffordshire County Council, the city of Stoke-on-Trent and Highways England to ensure that preparations that are adequate, or more than adequate, are made so that the construction of this railway, …..."
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Written Question
Railways: Freight
Friday 20th October 2017

Asked by: Jeremy Lefroy (Conservative - Stafford)

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps he plans to take to ensure that new rail freight terminals are appropriately sited to benefit the national economy.

Answered by Paul Maynard

The National Networks National Policy Statement (NN-NPS) sets out Government’s policy for Strategic Rail Freight Interchange (SRFI) development. It states the importance of SRFIs being located near the business markets they will serve – major urban centres, or groups of centres. The NN-NPS states that to facilitate modal shift from road to rail, a network of SRFIs is needed across the regions to serve regional, sub-regional and cross-regional markets with good connectivity with both the road and strategic rail freight network.

Written Question
Transport: Stafford
Monday 11th September 2017

Asked by: Jeremy Lefroy (Conservative - Stafford)

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what recent steps he has taken to (a) tackle traffic congestion and (b) improve public transport in Stafford constituency.

Answered by Jesse Norman - Shadow Leader of the House of Commons

The Stafford area has benefitted from the following Government funded initiatives to tackle congestion and improve public transport:

  • The Department for Transport has allocated over £23m to Staffordshire County Council in 2017/18 for routine road maintenance and small transport projects. That included £3.711m National Productivity Investment Funding for highways and public transport works in 2017/18 to help reduce congestion and improve or upgrade local highway infrastructure assets and unlock economic and job creation opportunities. The Council also succeeded in securing a Challenge Fund award of £5m for the maintenance of Burton upon Trent river crossings.

  • The Government provided £87.5m towards the upgrading of the M6 to Smart Motorway status from Junction 10a (M54 interchange) to Junction 13 (Stafford), which was completed in February 2016.

  • The Stoke-on-Trent and Staffordshire Enterprise Partnership has been awarded £121m over 3 rounds of Local Growth Fund. Funded projects include £24.3m for Stafford Western Access Route to ease congestion into the town centre and £6.5m towards a local sustainable transport package to improve access opportunities to employment, education and training.

  • HS2 trains will serve the current station in Stafford. This will become an integrated high speed station where passengers can benefit from accessing the high speed network towards the South.

  • The Stafford Area Improvement Project has removed a major rail bottleneck through the Stafford area, facilitating the introduction of new timetables, creating the capacity to run two additional trains per hour in each direction between London and the north west of England, and one additional fast service per hour between Manchester and Birmingham in each direction.

Speech in Westminster Hall - Tue 18 Jul 2017
Drones: Risk to Aviation

"I beg to move,

That this House has considered the risk to UK aviation from drones.

It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Sir Roger. On Sunday 2 July, the runway at Gatwick Airport was closed twice—once for nine minutes and once for five minutes—as a result of …..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Tue 18 Jul 2017
Drones: Risk to Aviation

"I am most grateful to the hon. Gentleman for raising that point, and I will come on to it. He is absolutely right. One of the reasons for having this debate is to find out what the Government are doing and urge them to take action quickly where it is …..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Tue 18 Jul 2017
Drones: Risk to Aviation

"I agree with the hon. Gentleman, but I know that the Minister takes the matter extremely seriously and that the Government are looking at it. It is important that it is taken up quickly, because technology moves on. People are buying drones in the thousands every week and they need …..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Tue 18 Jul 2017
Drones: Risk to Aviation

"Does the Minister agree that knowing who the person is who is responsible for a drone is vital? That is the point I made about compulsory registration. There is a story—perhaps apocryphal, but perhaps not—that quite recently a drone was flown into the Shard, in London. People only found out …..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Tue 18 Jul 2017
Drones: Risk to Aviation

"Will the Minister, who is indeed a summery person, undertake to publish the report on the impact of drones on aircraft during the extended summer to which he referred?..."
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