Asked by: Mary Glindon (Labour - Newcastle upon Tyne East and Wallsend)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many DVSA staff have reported incidents of bullying and harassment by senior management since October 2017; and what steps DVSA have taken in response to those reported incidents.
Answered by Jesse Norman - Shadow Leader of the House of Commons
Since October 2017 to the end of November 2017, there has been one case of alleged bullying and harassment reported to the Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA) involving a senior manager (Grade 7 or above). This case is being dealt with formally in accordance with DVSA’s policy and procedures with support from Civil Service Human Resources, who provide a casework service to DVSA.
Asked by: Mary Glindon (Labour - Newcastle upon Tyne East and Wallsend)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what representations he has received on funding of Wheels to Work schemes: and if he will make a statement.
Answered by Jesse Norman - Shadow Leader of the House of Commons
The Department’s Access Fund in 2016 was promoted as funding access to new and existing employment, training, and education. During the competition, the Department welcomed bids for funding that supported or developed Wheels to Work schemes in their area. Schemes which benefited from the Access Fund include Wheels 2 Work Leicestershire and Rutland.
Asked by: Mary Glindon (Labour - Newcastle upon Tyne East and Wallsend)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many bus services have been withdrawn in the top 10 most (a) rural and (b) urban parliamentary constituencies.
Answered by Andrew Jones
The Department does not collect any information on the number of bus services that have been withdrawn in each parliamentary constituency.
Asked by: Mary Glindon (Labour - Newcastle upon Tyne East and Wallsend)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what recent discussions his Department has had with the authorities at Heathrow Airport on ensuring that construction of the proposed third runway leaves an employment and skills legacy for the UK.
Answered by John Hayes
Heathrow Airport Limited has made a public commitment to double the number of apprenticeships to 10,000 by the time a new runway is operational. This commitment was also set out in the Statement of Principles, agreed between the Secretary of State for Transport and Heathrow Airport Limited, published in October 2016.
Additionally Heathrow Airport recently announced the development of the Heathrow Skills Task Force. Chaired by the Rt Hon, the Lord Blunkett, to identify the skills and training required to support both expansion at the airport and ensure that construction leaves a national skills legacy for future infrastructure projects.
The Government will shortly publish a draft Airports National Policy Statement for public consultation and scrutiny by Parliament setting out the planning framework for any future Development Consent Order (DCO) for additional airport capacity in the South East.