Asked by: Mary Creagh (Labour - Wakefield)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will publish a breakdown by firm of expenditure by his Department on (a) consultants and (b) consultancy firms in each of the last four years.
Answered by Stephen Hammond
Information requested will be deposited in the library and provides the spend details per financial year for the period 2010 to 2014.
Asked by: Mary Creagh (Labour - Wakefield)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what criteria he used to select which stations would receive funding under the Access for All scheme from 2015 to 2019.
Answered by Stephen Hammond
The rail industry were asked to nominate stations for Access for All at the end of 2013 and 278 stations were put forward. These were assessed using the same criteria that have been used since the programme was launched in 2006.
Stations were selected based on their annual footfall figures (using data from the Office of Rail Regulation), weighted by the incidence of disability in the area (using Census data). We also took into account the preferences of the train operating companies, local factors such as proximity to a hospital and the availability of any third party funding. A number of stations were also selected to ensure a fair geographical spread across the country. Stations that already had step free routes, or which were due to be upgraded as part of other programmes, were not considered for funding.
Asked by: Mary Creagh (Labour - Wakefield)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, which stations in each region (a) applied for and (b) received funding under the extension of the Access for All scheme from 2015 to 2019.
Answered by Stephen Hammond
The breakdown of successful stations against nominations by region is as follows:
Region
| Nominated
| Successful
|
London
| 63
| 12
|
South East
| 49
| 6
|
East
| 16
| 4
|
West Midlands
| 10
| 2
|
East Midlands
| 9
| 3
|
North West
| 29
| 3
|
North East
| 30
| 3
|
South West
| 43
| 2
|
Wales
| 14
| 4
|
Scotland
| 15
| 3
|
Asked by: Mary Creagh (Labour - Wakefield)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, when the document Annual Bus Statistics: Revenue, Costs and Government Support Great Britain 2012-13 will be published.
Answered by Stephen Hammond
The statistics on bus revenue, costs and government support were updated in March 2014 and can be found on the Department's website at
https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/bus-statistics
in the statistical datasets section.
Asked by: Mary Creagh (Labour - Wakefield)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how much in each (a) funding stream and (b) region his Department has provided in subsidy to each bus operator in each of the last four years.
Answered by Stephen Hammond
In the last four years, the Department for Transport has paid funding directly to bus operators in England through the Bus Service Operators Grant (BSOG) and the Green Bus Fund.
Details of BSOG funding paid to bus operators in the last three financial years is available online. It is not possible to provide this data broken down by region or for earlier years. The data are available at:
Details of funding paid to bus operators through the Department's Green Bus Fund, broken down by bus operator and region, for all four rounds of the Green Bus Fund (which ran from 2009 to 2013) are available online at:
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/details-of-the-green-bus-fund
Asked by: Mary Creagh (Labour - Wakefield)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what the amount of (a) net franchise payment and (b) revenue support is for the extension of the Greater Anglia franchise from July 2014 to October 2016.
Answered by Stephen Hammond
The Net franchise premium payment contracted for the Greater Anglia Direct Award from July 2014 to October 2016 is c. £266m payment to the Department for Transport. Premium is quoted in January 2014 price.
There will be no Revenue support for the Greater Anglia Direct Award from July 2014 to October 2016.
Asked by: Mary Creagh (Labour - Wakefield)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many foreign-registered cars received a parking penalty charge in each year since 2010; how many parking penalty charges for foreign-registered vehicles went unpaid in each year; and what the value was of these unpaid parking charges.
Answered by Robert Goodwill
This is a matter for individual local authorities who are required to keep records of all penalty charge notices issued including those issued to drivers of foreign-registered vehicles. The Department for Transport does not record this information centrally.
Asked by: Mary Creagh (Labour - Wakefield)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 31 March 2014, Official Report, column 411W, on transport: schools, how many (a) schools and (b) pupils took part in Bikeability cycle training in each year since 2005.
Answered by Robert Goodwill
Funding provided by the Department for Transport (DfT) for Bikeability cycle training began in financial year 2006/7.
Data collection since then has consisted mainly of the number of places delivered by each Bikeability grant recipient. Therefore it is not possible to fully answer (A), however, the current estimate is that 8,177 schools take part in training delivered by either their Local Highway Authority or School Games Organiser Host School.
The number of places delivered using DfT grant funding until 31st March 2013 is available and the totals are as follows:
| 2006/07 | 7,983 |
| 2007/08 | 26,894 |
| 2008/09 | 92,579 |
| 2009/10 | 133,984 |
| 2010/11 | 199,197 |
| 2011/12 | 293,969 |
| 2012/13 | 255,833 |
| TOTAL | 1,010,439 |
Asked by: Mary Creagh (Labour - Wakefield)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, which airports meet the eligibility criteria for the Regional Air Connectivity Fund; and how much each such airport has been awarded in each of the last 10 years.
Answered by Robert Goodwill
The Department for Transport is in detailed discussions with regional councils regarding two air routes that might qualify for support through a Public Service Obligation under financial provisions announced by the Chief Secretary to the Treasury in the 2013 Spending Round last July, to maintain regional air access to London. Of these, Dundee Council is currently tendering for an airline to operate a service between Dundee Airport and London.
The Chancellor announced in this year's Budget that support will also be made available for start-up aid for new air routes from UK regional airports. European Union aviation State aid guidelines allow for start-up aid to be provided under certain conditions to facilitate development of new routes from Member State airports which handle fewer than five million passengers per year.
The Department for Transport is working with the Treasury to develop guidance clarifying how the Government will ordinarily expect to interpret the European Union State aid guidelines, and explain how the funding process will operate.
Asked by: Mary Creagh (Labour - Wakefield)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many drivers have had their licence revoked by the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency in each year since 2010.
Answered by Stephen Hammond
The table below provides the number of driving licences that have been revoked by the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA) since 2010:
Year | Number of licences revoked |
2010 | 96,551 |
2011 | 126,263 |
2012 | 117,565 |
2013 | 112,725 |
2014 (up to 29 March) | 28,199 |
Total | 481,303 |