Asked by: Jon Trickett (Labour - Hemsworth)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how much their Department has spent on advertising in (a) 2020, (b) 2021 and (c) 2022.
Answered by Trudy Harrison
The following table provides the total spend on advertising for the core Department, covering financial years 2019-20 to 2021-22:
Financial Year | Expenditure (£m) |
2019-20 | 14.4 |
2020-21 | 6.4 |
2021-22 | 9.8 |
Note the majority of the above spend has been incurred on the THINK! road safety campaign.
Asked by: Jon Trickett (Labour - Hemsworth)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how much his Department has spent on consultancy fees in (a) 2020, (b) 2021 and (c) 2022; and what the name is of each consultancy contracted.
Answered by Trudy Harrison
The Department publishes information on all tenders and contracts over £10,000 and a list of the consultancy contracts can be found via the link below:
Contracts Finder - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)
The Department is also fully committed to the Government’s transparency agenda and publishes details of expenditure, including consultancy spend, over £25,000 by month. This information can be found via the following link:
https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/dft-departmental-spending-over-25000
Asked by: Jon Trickett (Labour - Hemsworth)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how much their Department and its associated agencies spent on legal disputes in (a) 2020, (b) 2021 and (c) 2022.
Answered by Trudy Harrison
DfT and it’s Executive Agencies have spent the below amounts on Litigation Costs in the last 3 calendar years. The 2022 figure covers up until 8th July 2022.
Calendar years | £ |
2020 | £5.1m |
2021 | £3.8m |
2022 (up until 8th July) | £1.9m |
Asked by: Jon Trickett (Labour - Hemsworth)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what the total value has been of contracts held by their Department with (a) G4S, (b) Serco and (c) Capita in each year since 2020.
Answered by Trudy Harrison
The total value of contracts held since 2020 by DfTc with: -
(a)G4S £0
(b)Serco £0
(c)Capita £152,951
Asked by: Jon Trickett (Labour - Hemsworth)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many contracts that are worth (a) between £1 million and £3 million and (b) over £3 million their (i) Department and (ii) Department’s agencies and non-departmental public bodies (A) have agreed since 2010 and (B) are due to agree within the next 12 months; how much their Department has spent on monitoring each contract in each year since 2010; and how many officials have been working on that monitoring in each year since 2010.
Answered by Wendy Morton
Based on records held within our new sourcing system launched from end of 2019:
(A)From 2020 (i)DfTc have (a)awarded 83 contracts with a value between £1m and £3m, and (b)43 contracts with a value exceeding £3m.
(ii)It is likely that the information requested can only be provided at disproportionate cost as we would have to contact each of the agencies and non-departmental public bodies separately dedicating a resource(s) centrally to co-ordinate the response after identifying the relevant resource(s) within each of the agencies and non-departmental public bodies able to provide the answer; however, from the latest publication of Annual Accounts in terms of proportionality of the Department’s portfolio, the grey section (£0.386bn) of Image1 relates to size of DfTc spend in relation to the rest of its agencies and non-departmental public bodies (£41.887bn).
(B)In the next 12 months DfTc anticipate that 32 contracts shall commence with value between £1m and £3m and that 20 contracts shall commence with value over £3m. There are currently there are 732 contract managers within DfTc of which 452 have completed foundation contract management training with the remaining 280 working towards completion of the accreditation. It would cause a disproportionate cost to calculate the cost of deploying the 732 contract managers.
Asked by: Jon Trickett (Labour - Hemsworth)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what the pay ratio was between the highest paid member of staff in his Department and the lowest in (a) 2020, (b) 2021 and (c) 2022.
Answered by Andrew Stephenson - Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
The highest and lowest value staff remuneration is declared in the Department’s Annual Report and Accounts Remuneration Reports for 2020 and 2021. The values for 2022 will be published in the upcoming 2022 report.
Asked by: Jon Trickett (Labour - Hemsworth)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how much his Department spent on hospitality in (a) 2020, (b) 2021 and (c) 2022.
Answered by Andrew Stephenson - Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
The following table provides the total spend on hospitality for the core Department, covering financial years 2019-20 to 2021-22:
Financial Year | Expenditure (£’000) |
2019-20 | 26 |
2020-21 | 14 |
2021-22 | 6 |
Asked by: Jon Trickett (Labour - Hemsworth)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what recent discussions he has had with Northern Rail on ending the extended use of temporary timetables on (a) the Pontefract Line and (b) all other services between Leeds and Pontefract for which that operator is responsible.
Answered by Wendy Morton
Rail services between Leeds and Pontefract are part of the Leeds-Knottingley and Goole routes. In December 2021, the timetable service level was broadly one train per hour on each route. As a result of Omicron, a number of services were withdrawn to ensure a consistent and reliable service. The Department, along with operators and Network Rail agrees timetables twice a year, ensuring that the level of service is appropriate to passenger demand.
The operator is currently engaging with the Department and the Rail North Partnership on its post-May 2022 timetable. As we recover from the pandemic, we want to provide a reliable and resilient service that has sufficient capacity to meet actual demand and provide value for money to the taxpayer.
Asked by: Jon Trickett (Labour - Hemsworth)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what level of service Northern Rail is required to provide on the Pontefract Line between Leeds and Pontefract as part of its franchise agreement.
Answered by Wendy Morton
Rail services between Leeds and Pontefract are part of the Leeds-Knottingley and Goole routes. In December 2021, the timetable service level was broadly one train per hour on each route. As a result of Omicron, a number of services were withdrawn to ensure a consistent and reliable service. The Department, along with operators and Network Rail agrees timetables twice a year, ensuring that the level of service is appropriate to passenger demand.
The operator is currently engaging with the Department and the Rail North Partnership on its post-May 2022 timetable. As we recover from the pandemic, we want to provide a reliable and resilient service that has sufficient capacity to meet actual demand and provide value for money to the taxpayer.
Asked by: Jon Trickett (Labour - Hemsworth)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether new (a) rail and (b) tram stations will be opened in the Wakefield District, as part of the new West Yorkshire Mass Transit System.
Answered by Andrew Stephenson - Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
The Government wants to work with and support West Yorkshire Combined Authority (WYCA) as they further develop and start work on their plans for a West Yorkshire Mass Transit System. The development of route options will be led by WYCA.