Asked by: Patrick Grady (Scottish National Party - Glasgow North)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether he has met with representatives of the SCL group or Cambridge Analytica.
Answered by Nusrat Ghani - Minister of State (Minister for Europe)
Departments publish quarterly details of Ministers’ meetings with external organisations on GOV.UK. These can be found at the following link:
https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/dft-ministerial-gifts-hospitality-travel-and-meetings
Asked by: Patrick Grady (Scottish National Party - Glasgow North)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether (a) his Department and (b) agencies of his Department have had contracts with (a) SCL Group, (b) Cambridge Analytica.
Answered by Nusrat Ghani - Minister of State (Minister for Europe)
The central Department and its four executive agencies – Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency, Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency, Maritime and Coastguard Agency and Vehicle Certification Agency - have no record of entering into any contracts with SCL Group or Cambridge Analytica since 2010.
Asked by: Patrick Grady (Scottish National Party - Glasgow North)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will respond to Early Day Motion 827 on HIV and UK aviation.
Answered by Jesse Norman
The Department welcomes the Civil Aviation Authority’s (CAA) call for a change in the current regulations and their decision to issue initial Class 1 Medical certificates with a restriction to multi-pilot operations to applicants wishing to become commercial pilots, subject to the applicants passing their Class 1 Medical assessment. The CAA has often led aviation regulatory changes that have enabled pilots with medical conditions to keep flying, and I welcome their continued efforts to see a permanent change to the current regulations at the European level.
Asked by: Patrick Grady (Scottish National Party - Glasgow North)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps his Department is taking to protect ancient woodland along the route of High Speed 2.
Answered by Robert Goodwill
HS2 Ltd has sought to design HS2 to avoid environmental impacts, including those on ancient woodlands, wherever reasonably practicable. Where this is not possible mitigation or compensation measures will be undertaken.
High Speed Two Information paper E2: Ecological Impact, outlines how ecological impacts have been assessed and how they will be mitigated or compensated for during construction of the proposed scheme. To compensate for the unavoidable loss of ancient woodland, the nominated undertaker will use best practice measures such as re-using the ancient woodland soils. Furthermore, we are extending the Chilterns Tunnel to avoid impacts on the ancient woodlands at Mantles Wood, Farthings Wood and Sibley’s Coppice.
Asked by: Patrick Grady (Scottish National Party - Glasgow North)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what discussions he has had with Transport for London on the ability of its ticket machines to accept banknotes issued by Scottish banks.
Answered by Robert Goodwill
The Secretary of State has not had any discussions with Transport for London (TfL) on the ability of its ticket machines to accept banknotes issued by Scottish banks.