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Written Question
Public Transport: Greater London
Thursday 3rd September 2020

Asked by: Meg Hillier (Labour (Co-op) - Hackney South and Shoreditch)

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, when he plans to publish the Equalities Impact Assessment on the decision to remove free travel for under-18s in London.

Answered by Baroness Maclean of Redditch

Any changes made to under 18s concessions in London will ensure that any child eligible for free home to school travel under the Education Act 1996 will still receive this. The Department is carrying out an Equalities Impact Assessment which will help consider categories of children that should continue to receive free transport.

My officials are working with the Department for Education, the Ministry for Housing, Communities and Local Government, Transport for London and London Boroughs on the Equalities Impact Assessment which will be published in due course.

Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 08 Jul 2020
Free Travel for Under-18s: London

"I thank my hon. Friend for securing this vital debate. Does she agree, further to the point made by the hon. Member for Twickenham (Munira Wilson), that this is effectively a tax on education? Many parents will already have chosen schools and have their children in secondary schools or colleges …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 08 Jul 2020
Free Travel for Under-18s: London

"I thank my hon. Friend for being generous in giving way again. One of the benefits of this project when it was introduced was that it got whole generations of young people to realise that public transport was there and was useable. It got them in the habit. Does she …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 08 Jul 2020
Free Travel for Under-18s: London

"The Minister quotes the Mayor of London. I wonder whether she can tell me the date on which he made that comment about children not travelling on buses?..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 08 Jul 2020
Free Travel for Under-18s: London

"In my constituency, sadly we have a problem with gangs, and a parent has written to me saying that she does not want her son to be another statistic. She chose a school on a safe bus route to make sure he was safe. Switching to what the Minister describes …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 25 Sep 2019
Thomas Cook

"It would be helpful if the Secretary of State set out the cost to the taxpayer of Operation Matterhorn so far and what likelihood there is, realistically, of getting money back from individual people’s travel insurance...."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 11 Apr 2019
East Midlands Rail Franchise

"The Public Accounts Committee has repeatedly highlighted the problems with the franchising system, and the fact that we were whittled down to a single bidder underlines that. I thank the Minister’s Department for sending me details of the franchise. The interesting point is the extension of the Govia contract, which …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 11 Apr 2019
East Midlands Rail Franchise

"indicated assent...."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 14 Feb 2019
Oral Answers to Questions

"We know that the contract with Seaborne was, in the words of the Secretary of State’s own permanent secretary, a “novel and exceptional” proposition, but she revealed yesterday to the Public Accounts Committee that the only confirmation that the Department had about the arrangements with Arklow were from Seaborne itself. …..."
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Written Question
Seaborne Freight
Thursday 10th January 2019

Asked by: Meg Hillier (Labour (Co-op) - Hackney South and Shoreditch)

Question to the Department for Transport:

What due diligence was undertaken by his Department in advance of its award of a contract to Seaborne Freight.

Answered by Lord Grayling

Thorough checks were undertaken by my Department in December. This had the support of professional advisers, including Slaughter and May, Deloitte and Mott Macdonald.