Speech in Westminster Hall - Wed 27 Apr 2022
Public Transport Authority for South Yorkshire
"I am with the hon. Gentleman on the arguments he has mounted so far. However, does he recognise that we had the sort of cheap, reliable, popular and well-used service that he aspires to in South Yorkshire until a Conservative Government took it apart in the 1980s?..."Paul Blomfield - View Speech
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Wed 27 Apr 2022
Public Transport Authority for South Yorkshire
"I am fascinated that the focus of the hon. Member’s speech on bus improvement is on structure. Would he not agree that investment is critical, and therefore that it was deeply regrettable that the Government turned down the £474 million bid for bus improvements that we made?..."Paul Blomfield - View Speech
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Wed 27 Apr 2022
Public Transport Authority for South Yorkshire
"Will the hon. Gentleman give way?..."Paul Blomfield - View Speech
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Wed 27 Apr 2022
Public Transport Authority for South Yorkshire
"I thank the hon. Gentleman for giving way one more time. He talks ambitiously and grandly about the need for investment, and he is absolutely right, but how does he think that sits alongside the practical experience of this Government, who have cut spending on public transport from £3.9 billion …..."Paul Blomfield - View Speech
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Written Question
Monday 21st February 2022
Asked by:
Paul Blomfield (Labour - Sheffield Central)
Question
to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment his Department has made of the potential merits of publishing vehicle type data as part of detailed crash data currently published by his Department.
Answered by Trudy Harrison
Information on the type of vehicles involved in reported road accidents is included in the Department’s Reported Road Casualty statistics and the detailed datasets which are made available on data.gov.uk alongside this publication.
This information comes from the STATS19 dataset of accidents reported by the police, including via the Collision Recording and Sharing (CRaSH) system.
Written Question
Monday 8th November 2021
Asked by:
Paul Blomfield (Labour - Sheffield Central)
Question
to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what the timeframe is for returning passports to foreign nationals applying for provisional driving licences; and what steps he is taking to help ensure those timeframes are met.
Answered by Trudy Harrison
The latest information on turnaround times for paper driving licence applications the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency is currently processing can be found here. The DVLA is changing its procedures to return identity documents to customers earlier in the process, given the importance of these documents to applicants.
Written Question
Monday 13th September 2021
Asked by:
Paul Blomfield (Labour - Sheffield Central)
Question
to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 23July 2021 to Question 34070 on Pavement Parking, when the result of the Government’s consultation on pavement parking is planned to be published.
Answered by Baroness Maclean of Redditch
We are giving careful consideration to the large volume of responses to this consultation and will publish the outcome as soon as possible.
Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 09 Sep 2021
Oral Answers to Questions
"Two of my constituents, a Danish national and a British citizen with Danish residence, were denied boarding a BA flight by the airline’s staff because they did not accept my constituent’s proof of Danish residence even though it was consistent with Danish travel advice. Despite a letter that I received …..."Paul Blomfield - View Speech
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Written Question
Wednesday 28th July 2021
Asked by:
Paul Blomfield (Labour - Sheffield Central)
Question
to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what progress he has made on negotiations to extend the quarantine-free covid-19 travel rules for double-vaccinated travellers from Amber list countries to include people who have received their full WHO-recognised vaccinations in a country other than the UK.
Answered by Robert Courts
We are working closely with international partners on reopening travel and will provide an update in due course on how to safely reopen travel for fully vaccinated people from overseas.
Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 29 Apr 2021
Oral Answers to Questions
" The Secretary of State will know that the consultation on Manchester’s rail services is considering the removal of the direct link between Sheffield and Manchester airport. Our chamber of commerce is deeply concerned about the damage that axing this service would do to local business and jobs, and our …..."Paul Blomfield - View Speech
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