Asked by: Peter Dowd (Labour - Bootle)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, for what reason his Department has not published the transparency data entitled Dft: Spending over £25,000 for the months of (a) October, (b) November and (c) December 2018; and when he plans to publish those documents.
Answered by Jesse Norman - Shadow Leader of the House of Commons
The transparency data for financial transactions over £25,000 for October, November and December 2018 was published on 28 March 2019 on GOV.UK
Asked by: Peter Dowd (Labour - Bootle)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many consultants his Department has hired since 2016; and at what cost to the taxpayer.
Answered by Jesse Norman - Shadow Leader of the House of Commons
The Department does not hold information on the number of consultants hired in any one year as this work is often commissioned as part of an outcomes based contract to ensure value for money.
The amount spent on consultants each year since 2016 is:
2016-17 - £49.59m
2017-18 - £55.22m
Asked by: Peter Dowd (Labour - Bootle)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many consultations by his Department (a) are open, (b) are closed awaiting a Government response and (c) have been initiated since 2016.
Answered by Jesse Norman - Shadow Leader of the House of Commons
The Department for Transport (DfT) currently has 9 consultations open on GOV.UK
There are 30 consultations awaiting a Government response.
Since 2016, 176 DfT consultations have been published on GOV.UK.
Asked by: Peter Dowd (Labour - Bootle)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 21 March 2018 to Question 133023 on Department for Transport: Assets and with reference to the Answers of 21 March 2018 to Questions 133017, 133018, 133020, 133022 and 133029 on Government Departments: Assets, for what reason the information requested can only be provided at disproportionate cost.
Answered by Nusrat Ghani
The Department for Transport has delegated estate management matters to Executive Agencies for reasons of operational effectiveness. The information requested is not held in the format sought and obtaining this for the central department and Executive Agencies would require a manual trawl through local systems and individual transactions which would exceed the cost limit. In addition, owing to organisational changes former Executive Agencies would be brought into scope which would require further analysis of historic records.
Asked by: Peter Dowd (Labour - Bootle)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how much money his Department has raised from the sale of (a) assets, (b) land and (c) buildings in each year since 2010.
Answered by Nusrat Ghani
The information requested can only be provided at disproportionate cost.
Asked by: Peter Dowd (Labour - Bootle)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many people received an exemption from the vehicle excise duty for historic cars in (a) 2014-15, (b) 2015-16 and (c) 2016-17.
Answered by Jesse Norman - Shadow Leader of the House of Commons
The information is not recorded in the format requested. The Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency’s vehicle records change constantly as vehicle licensing and registration transactions are processed, so that the information requested can only be provided as a snapshot at a particular time. The table below provides the number of vehicles in the historic and disabled tax classes in February 2015, 2016 and 2017:
Tax Class | Feb-15 | Feb-16 | Feb-17 |
Historic | 532,239 | 570,430 | 604,174 |
Disabled | 1,345,446 | 1,315,103 | 1,266,523 |
Asked by: Peter Dowd (Labour - Bootle)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many disabled motorists received an exemption from the vehicle excise duty in (a) 2014-15, (b) 2015-16 and (c) 2016-17.
Answered by Jesse Norman - Shadow Leader of the House of Commons
The information is not recorded in the format requested. The Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency’s vehicle records change constantly as vehicle licensing and registration transactions are processed, so that the information requested can only be provided as a snapshot at a particular time. The table below provides the number of vehicles in the historic and disabled tax classes in February 2015, 2016 and 2017:
Tax Class | Feb-15 | Feb-16 | Feb-17 |
Historic | 532,239 | 570,430 | 604,174 |
Disabled | 1,345,446 | 1,315,103 | 1,266,523 |