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Written Question
Electric Vehicles: Charging Points
Wednesday 25th March 2020

Asked by: Richard Fuller (Conservative - North Bedfordshire)

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how much funding will be available to the On-Street Residential Chargepoint Grant Scheme in the financial year 2020-21 and in each of the subsequent five financial years.

Answered by Baroness Maclean of Redditch

We have already doubled the funding available for the On-Street Residential Grant Scheme (ORCS) over the last two years (to £5m in August 19, up from £2.5m, and to £10m for 2020/21, up from £5m) to ensure that more local authorities and residents can benefit from the scheme.

We have approved 73 grant applications since the scheme began, including one successful application from Luton Borough Council in 2018/19. We have not received any other applications from local authorities within Bedfordshire.

The scheme has supported over 60 local authorities to deliver over 2,000 chargepoints for residents who do not have off-street parking. Uptake of the scheme increased rapidly in 2019/20. In October, the Secretary of State wrote to all local authorities encouraging them to send their strategies for infrastructure deployment and to take advantage of ORCS funding.

We are currently consulting on bringing forward an end to the sale of new petrol, diesel and hybrid cars and vans from 2040 to 2035, or earlier if a faster transition appears feasible. This includes looking at the package of measures that are required to support an earlier date, such as support required for those who do not have off-street parking. Budgets for ORCS beyond 2020/21 have not yet been set, but responses to the consultation, especially from local authorities, will help to inform our understanding of what might be required.

Written Question
Railway Stations: East of England
Tuesday 25th February 2020

Asked by: Richard Fuller (Conservative - North Bedfordshire)

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will list the accessibility improvements that have been made to train stations in (a) the East of England and (b) Bedfordshire in each of the last five years.

Answered by Chris Heaton-Harris

In Control Period 5 (2014-2019), the Access for All programme delivered step free routes at 6 stations in the East of England, including Leighton Buzzard. In Control Period 6 (2019-2024) 8 of the 73 stations due to benefit from Access for All funding are in the East, including Luton and Biggleswade.

This is in addition to access improvements delivered as part of other major projects, and by the industry itself, which must meet current accessibility standards whenever it installs, replaces or renews station infrastructure.

Details of all of this work is held by the individual organisations and the information on the facilities available at stations is collected and held by the Rail Delivery Group, who you can contact using info@raildeliverygroup.com.

Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 30 Jan 2020
Oral Answers to Questions

"The Secretary of State will be aware of the implications of his announcement a few minutes ago about the preferred route of East West Rail for housing growth in the east of my constituency. Will his Department commit to looking once again at realignment of the A1?..."
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Speech in Public Bill Committees - Tue 21 Mar 2017
Vehicle Technology and Aviation Bill (Sixth sitting)

"I am grateful, Ms Ryan, for your permission to say a few words to encourage the Minister not to be persuaded by the well-meaning nonsense being peddled by Opposition Members, with this re-bubbling commitment to the all-seeing omniscience of Soviet or socialist planning that ascribes to Government powers that, I …..."
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Speech in Public Bill Committees - Thu 16 Mar 2017
Vehicle Technology and Aviation Bill (Fourth sitting)

"I am grateful to my hon. Friend for his dissertation on software systems, but can he advise me? We want to avoid the problem that we were talking about earlier in trying to define what might happen in the future. New software systems might be created that were unknown at …..."
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Speech in Public Bill Committees - Thu 16 Mar 2017
Vehicle Technology and Aviation Bill (Third sitting)

"The hon. Gentleman draws my attention to the word “monitored” in clause 1(1)(b). It is an interesting word to use in relation to whether a vehicle is autonomous. I can monitor myself driving but not be in control. Is not the essential point whether the individual controls the vehicle? I …..."
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Speech in Public Bill Committees - Thu 16 Mar 2017
Vehicle Technology and Aviation Bill (Third sitting)

"I just want to get absolute clarity. The example that my right hon. Friend the Minister provided of the automatic pilot would be an example where oversight would not be required but might be provided by the pilot. Therefore, is that an example of something that would fall within or …..."
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Speech in Public Bill Committees - Thu 16 Mar 2017
Vehicle Technology and Aviation Bill (Third sitting)

"Will the Minister therefore accept that including in this definition the principle of oversight and not restricting it to control provides a much wider ambit for what this list will be required to provide? Indeed, we would find situations where self-parking vehicles would be included in the list, because it …..."
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Speech in Public Bill Committees - Thu 16 Mar 2017
Vehicle Technology and Aviation Bill (Third sitting)

"It is an honour to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Gray, and to have listened to the opening speeches. I will focus on the intent of clause 1 and how it relates to the title and ambitions of the Bill. As you know, it is entitled the Vehicle Technology and …..."
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Speech in Public Bill Committees - Thu 16 Mar 2017
Vehicle Technology and Aviation Bill (Third sitting)

"I am very grateful to my hon. Friend. I have no wish whatever to demean one of the most important export earners for our country. Insurance is indeed important, but when it comes to the issue of the word “monitoring”, what my hon. Friend and other colleagues on the Committee …..."
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