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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 13 Jul 2017
Oral Answers to Questions

"The road to nowhere in Yate was built in the 1970s and was abandoned. It is now used as a film set. Does my right hon. Friend agree that the road should be reopened? What financial assistance is his Department making available for projects such as that, which would dramatically …..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Tue 22 Nov 2016
Great Western Line: Electrification

"It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Hollobone.

I congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Bristol North West (Charlotte Leslie) on securing the debate. She made many of the points that I wished to make, but much more eloquently than I might ever have done. I …..."
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Written Question

Transport: Thornbury and Yate

Tuesday 14th June 2016

Asked by: Luke Hall (Conservative - Thornbury and Yate)

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how much his Department has spent on transport infrastructure projects in Thornbury and Yate constituency in each year from 2010-11 to 2015-16.

Answered by Andrew Jones

Data on spend on transport infrastructure projects is not available at the level of Thornbury and Yate, however figures are available for the South West for total public transport spend, listed in Table 1.

Table 1 Total Public Transport Spend for the South West

£million
	2010-11 outturn	2011-12 outturn	2012-13 outturn	2013-14 outturn	2014-15 outturn
Total	1,115	997	987	928	1,047
Current	442	396	368	295	279
Capital	673	601	619	633	767
Note: includes spend by Central Government, Local Government, and Public Corporations

The figures above include all public transport spending including local transport infrastructure.

South Gloucestershire Council is responsible for local transport infrastructure in Thornbury and Yate, including local roads. The funding allocated to South Gloucestershire Council for local highways infrastructure and other transport schemes between 2010-11 and 2015-16 is listed in Table 2.

Table 2

Year	Integrated Transport block £m	Highways Maintenance block £m
2010/11	1.690	14.334*
2011/12	1.603**	4.373
2012/13	1.466	4.632
2013/14	1.466	5.108***
2014/15	2.061	4.549***
2015/16	1.277	5.080
Total	9.563	38.076*

* in 2010/11 South Gloucestershire formed part of the Greater Bristol (Joint Plan) area and it is not possible to breakdown the maintenance block figure for that year.

** includes the top up announced in the 2011 Autumn Statement.

*** includes the top up announced in the 2011 Autumn Statement.

South Gloucestershire Council have been successful in gaining the following funding for transport infrastructure projects, some of which will have benefitted the Thornbury and Yate constituency:

£13.950m from the Local Highways Maintenance Challenge Fund in March 2015 for major maintenance of the A4174 Avon Ring Road between the A38 at Filton and the A4 at Hicks Gate. The scheme will involve structural maintenance of three significant structures, extending the life of the existing carriageway, as well as providing footways and cycleway maintenance and enhancements.

The Department for Transport has invested £175.8m in six Local Major Transport schemes to provide bus rapid transport across the West of England which included £51.1m in 2015 to provide a route between South Gloucestershire and Bristol, this is now under construction with an estimated opening date of August 2017.

The West of England Partnership has allocated the following from the Local Growth Fund to transport schemes across the West of England, which will benefit the Thornbury and Yate constituency:

Sustainable Transport Programme - £20m for transport capital measures to make it easier to walk, cycle, and travel by public transport

West of England local pinch points programme - £4m for 3 schemes at congestion hotspots and provide new and improved access to key economic sites.

West of England minor transport schemes package £0.5m - to improve highway infrastructure and network management.

MetroWest Phase 1 £53.4m- to reopen the Portishead rail line and provide better local rail services in the West of England.

MetroWest Phases 2 £3.2m towards a rail scheme to reopen the Henbury line, with potential new stations and improved local rail services in the West of England.

Written Question

Transport: Infrastructure

Thursday 26th May 2016

Asked by: Luke Hall (Conservative - Thornbury and Yate)

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how much was spent by the Government on transport infrastructure projects nationally in 2011-12.

Answered by Robert Goodwill

The total capital expenditure of the Department for Transport in the years 2010/11 to 2015/16 is shown in the table below.

£millions	2010/11	2011/12	2012/13	2013/14	2014/15¹	2015/16²
Capital DEL	7,299	7,686	7,828	8,460	5,501	6,119
Capital AME	-	-	-	-	6,695	7,754
Total Capital Expenditure	7,299	7,653	7,767	8,472	12,196	13,872
Notes DEL = Departmental Expenditure Limit AME = Annually Managed Expenditure 1. Network Rail was reclassified into the public sector during the 2014/15 financial year and its Capital spending is reported in full in AME from that year onwards. For earlier years, the department's Capital grant to Network Rail (which funded some but not all of its spending) was reported in DEL. The approximate effect of this change was to increase reported spending by between £2.5bn and £3.0bn per year from 2014/15 onwards, relative to the previous arrangements. 2. Figures for 2015/16 are published budgets for the year. Outturn figures will be available when the 2015/16 annual report and accounts is published later in the year.

These figures do not include spending by Transport for London and other local government bodies, or by the devolved administrations.

This information is taken from the Core Tables of the department’s 2014/15 annual report and accounts, which are published here:

https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/440269/dft-annual-report-and-accounts-2014-to-2015-_web-version_.pdf

Written Question

Transport: Infrastructure

Thursday 26th May 2016

Asked by: Luke Hall (Conservative - Thornbury and Yate)

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how much was spent by the Government on transport infrastructure projects nationally in 2013-14.

Answered by Robert Goodwill

The total capital expenditure of the Department for Transport in the years 2010/11 to 2015/16 is shown in the table below.

£millions	2010/11	2011/12	2012/13	2013/14	2014/15¹	2015/16²
Capital DEL	7,299	7,686	7,828	8,460	5,501	6,119
Capital AME	-	-	-	-	6,695	7,754
Total Capital Expenditure	7,299	7,653	7,767	8,472	12,196	13,872
Notes DEL = Departmental Expenditure Limit AME = Annually Managed Expenditure 1. Network Rail was reclassified into the public sector during the 2014/15 financial year and its Capital spending is reported in full in AME from that year onwards. For earlier years, the department's Capital grant to Network Rail (which funded some but not all of its spending) was reported in DEL. The approximate effect of this change was to increase reported spending by between £2.5bn and £3.0bn per year from 2014/15 onwards, relative to the previous arrangements. 2. Figures for 2015/16 are published budgets for the year. Outturn figures will be available when the 2015/16 annual report and accounts is published later in the year.

These figures do not include spending by Transport for London and other local government bodies, or by the devolved administrations.

This information is taken from the Core Tables of the department’s 2014/15 annual report and accounts, which are published here:

https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/440269/dft-annual-report-and-accounts-2014-to-2015-_web-version_.pdf

Written Question

Transport: Infrastructure

Thursday 26th May 2016

Asked by: Luke Hall (Conservative - Thornbury and Yate)

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how much was spent by the Government on transport infrastructure projects nationally in 2012-13.

Answered by Robert Goodwill

The total capital expenditure of the Department for Transport in the years 2010/11 to 2015/16 is shown in the table below.

£millions	2010/11	2011/12	2012/13	2013/14	2014/15¹	2015/16²
Capital DEL	7,299	7,686	7,828	8,460	5,501	6,119
Capital AME	-	-	-	-	6,695	7,754
Total Capital Expenditure	7,299	7,653	7,767	8,472	12,196	13,872
Notes DEL = Departmental Expenditure Limit AME = Annually Managed Expenditure 1. Network Rail was reclassified into the public sector during the 2014/15 financial year and its Capital spending is reported in full in AME from that year onwards. For earlier years, the department's Capital grant to Network Rail (which funded some but not all of its spending) was reported in DEL. The approximate effect of this change was to increase reported spending by between £2.5bn and £3.0bn per year from 2014/15 onwards, relative to the previous arrangements. 2. Figures for 2015/16 are published budgets for the year. Outturn figures will be available when the 2015/16 annual report and accounts is published later in the year.

These figures do not include spending by Transport for London and other local government bodies, or by the devolved administrations.

This information is taken from the Core Tables of the department’s 2014/15 annual report and accounts, which are published here:

https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/440269/dft-annual-report-and-accounts-2014-to-2015-_web-version_.pdf

Written Question

Transport: Infrastructure

Thursday 26th May 2016

Asked by: Luke Hall (Conservative - Thornbury and Yate)

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how much was spent by the Government on transport infrastructure projects nationally in 2014-15.

Answered by Robert Goodwill

The total capital expenditure of the Department for Transport in the years 2010/11 to 2015/16 is shown in the table below.

£millions	2010/11	2011/12	2012/13	2013/14	2014/15¹	2015/16²
Capital DEL	7,299	7,686	7,828	8,460	5,501	6,119
Capital AME	-	-	-	-	6,695	7,754
Total Capital Expenditure	7,299	7,653	7,767	8,472	12,196	13,872
Notes DEL = Departmental Expenditure Limit AME = Annually Managed Expenditure 1. Network Rail was reclassified into the public sector during the 2014/15 financial year and its Capital spending is reported in full in AME from that year onwards. For earlier years, the department's Capital grant to Network Rail (which funded some but not all of its spending) was reported in DEL. The approximate effect of this change was to increase reported spending by between £2.5bn and £3.0bn per year from 2014/15 onwards, relative to the previous arrangements. 2. Figures for 2015/16 are published budgets for the year. Outturn figures will be available when the 2015/16 annual report and accounts is published later in the year.

These figures do not include spending by Transport for London and other local government bodies, or by the devolved administrations.

This information is taken from the Core Tables of the department’s 2014/15 annual report and accounts, which are published here:

https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/440269/dft-annual-report-and-accounts-2014-to-2015-_web-version_.pdf

Written Question

Transport: Infrastructure

Thursday 26th May 2016

Asked by: Luke Hall (Conservative - Thornbury and Yate)

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how much was spent by the Government on transport infrastructure projects nationally in 2015-16.

Answered by Robert Goodwill

The total capital expenditure of the Department for Transport in the years 2010/11 to 2015/16 is shown in the table below.

£millions	2010/11	2011/12	2012/13	2013/14	2014/15¹	2015/16²
Capital DEL	7,299	7,686	7,828	8,460	5,501	6,119
Capital AME	-	-	-	-	6,695	7,754
Total Capital Expenditure	7,299	7,653	7,767	8,472	12,196	13,872
Notes DEL = Departmental Expenditure Limit AME = Annually Managed Expenditure 1. Network Rail was reclassified into the public sector during the 2014/15 financial year and its Capital spending is reported in full in AME from that year onwards. For earlier years, the department's Capital grant to Network Rail (which funded some but not all of its spending) was reported in DEL. The approximate effect of this change was to increase reported spending by between £2.5bn and £3.0bn per year from 2014/15 onwards, relative to the previous arrangements. 2. Figures for 2015/16 are published budgets for the year. Outturn figures will be available when the 2015/16 annual report and accounts is published later in the year.

These figures do not include spending by Transport for London and other local government bodies, or by the devolved administrations.

This information is taken from the Core Tables of the department’s 2014/15 annual report and accounts, which are published here:

https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/440269/dft-annual-report-and-accounts-2014-to-2015-_web-version_.pdf

Written Question

Transport: Infrastructure

Thursday 26th May 2016

Asked by: Luke Hall (Conservative - Thornbury and Yate)

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how much was spent by the Government on transport infrastructure projects nationally in 2010-11.

Answered by Robert Goodwill

The total capital expenditure of the Department for Transport in the years 2010/11 to 2015/16 is shown in the table below.

£millions	2010/11	2011/12	2012/13	2013/14	2014/15¹	2015/16²
Capital DEL	7,299	7,686	7,828	8,460	5,501	6,119
Capital AME	-	-	-	-	6,695	7,754
Total Capital Expenditure	7,299	7,653	7,767	8,472	12,196	13,872
Notes DEL = Departmental Expenditure Limit AME = Annually Managed Expenditure 1. Network Rail was reclassified into the public sector during the 2014/15 financial year and its Capital spending is reported in full in AME from that year onwards. For earlier years, the department's Capital grant to Network Rail (which funded some but not all of its spending) was reported in DEL. The approximate effect of this change was to increase reported spending by between £2.5bn and £3.0bn per year from 2014/15 onwards, relative to the previous arrangements. 2. Figures for 2015/16 are published budgets for the year. Outturn figures will be available when the 2015/16 annual report and accounts is published later in the year.

These figures do not include spending by Transport for London and other local government bodies, or by the devolved administrations.

This information is taken from the Core Tables of the department’s 2014/15 annual report and accounts, which are published here:

https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/440269/dft-annual-report-and-accounts-2014-to-2015-_web-version_.pdf

Written Question

Roads: Gloucestershire

Thursday 28th April 2016

Asked by: Luke Hall (Conservative - Thornbury and Yate)

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what funding his Department is making available to the South Gloucestershire Unitary Authority for completion of new road projects.

Answered by Robert Goodwill

The Department’s funding for major road projects sits within the Local Growth Fund. The West of England Local Enterprise Partnership, which includes South Gloucestershire, has already been allocated £230.7m from the Local Growth Fund from 2015/16 to 2020/21 to take forward their growth priorities, including transport projects. Up to a further £1.8bn from the Local Growth Fund will be awarded competitively to LEPs later this year, with an additional £475m available for exceptionally large transport projects.