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Written Question
Hedgehogs: Conservation
Thursday 10th April 2014

Asked by: Joan Walley (Labour - Stoke-on-Trent North)

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many vehicles have been crushed as a result of Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency database errors since July 2013.

Answered by Stephen Hammond

The Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA) does not hold the information requested.

If the DVLA is made aware of any enforcement action taken as a result of an error, officials consider compensating for any losses incurred. Each case is considered individually.

Written Question
Access to Work Programme: Arthritis
Thursday 10th April 2014

Asked by: Joan Walley (Labour - Stoke-on-Trent North)

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will request the Driving Standards Agency and Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency to waive charges arising from car seizures as a result of database classification errors.

Answered by Stephen Hammond

The Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency does not seize and impound cars.

The Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA) adopts a compliance and enforcement approach to ensuring vehicle excise duty is paid. This includes reminder letters and late licensing penalties as well as court prosecutions and the wheelclamping and/or removal of unlicensed vehicles.

If the DVLA is made aware of any action taken as a result of an error, officials will consider refunding any charges incurred. Each case is considered individually.

Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 24 Mar 2014
High-speed Rail

"In view of the Secretary of State’s commitment on Government funding to look at the prospects for opening up the line to Crewe that much earlier, what are the implications for the alternative proposal made by Stoke-on-Trent?..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 06 Feb 2014
Oral Answers to Questions

"3. What support is available to people with disabilities at railway stations with no disabled access...."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 06 Feb 2014
Oral Answers to Questions

"The policy of East Midlands Trains, which runs trains through Kidsgrove station in my constituency, is that

“if you want to travel to and from stations which are inaccessible, you can do so at no extra cost.”

But would it not make far more sense for the Government to approve …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 10 Oct 2013
Kidsgrove Railway Station

"I am grateful for the opportunity to debate disabled access to Kidsgrove railway station. It is no disrespect to you, Mr Deputy Speaker, if I say that I had rather hoped that Mr Speaker would be in the Chair, because he visited Kidsgrove recently and attended the Kidsgrove youth parliament. …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 10 Oct 2013
Kidsgrove Railway Station

"The hon. Lady’s intervention is helpful because she makes the point to the Minister that the campaign is supported by Members on both sides of the House. The criteria state that it is important that the investment, when it comes, should not be concentrated in London and the south-east. I …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 10 Oct 2013
Kidsgrove Railway Station

"Will the Minister tell us how the process will work? Who will submit the bid: local delivery groups, operating companies or local authorities?..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 10 Oct 2013
Kidsgrove Railway Station

"Will the Minister acknowledge that using small scheme funding for Kidsgrove will not really work? It is at a junction and two lines come through it, and which was constructed in such a way that it has overhead cables, it greatly puts up the potential costs, probably beyond what would …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 15 Oct 2012
West Coast Main Line

"Is not the most shocking part of this the fact that had Richard Branson not made the legal challenge, we would not even have known about this fiasco? Given the importance of the train services through Stoke-on-Trent, the lifeblood of our local economy rests on the future of the west …..."
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