Asked by: Baroness Anderson of Stoke-on-Trent (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many staff are employed by Network Rail to deal with contractual interface issues.
Answered by Claire Perry
Network Rail has 68 positions based across its eight routes with various responsibilities for managing commercial and regulated relationships with industry customers (the various operators). These roles are important in ensuring effective partnerships between Network Rail and the wider industry in order to meet the needs of passengers.
Asked by: Baroness Anderson of Stoke-on-Trent (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how much was spent on road maintenance in Stoke-on-Trent local authority area in the last financial year.
Answered by Andrew Jones
The Department for Transport allocated funding of just under £4 million to Stoke on Trent City Council for local highways maintenance in the last financial year, 2014/15. This includes £1.3 million per annum towards a 25 year street lighting PFI project that commenced in 2003/04.
Local authorities are also able to use revenue funding, allocated by the Department of Communities and Local Government through the Revenue Support Grant for maintaining their local highways.
Neither revenue nor capital highways maintenance block funding is ring-fenced and it is for local highway authorities, such as Stoke on Trent City Council, to decide upon their spending priorities across the whole range of services that they provide.
Asked by: Baroness Anderson of Stoke-on-Trent (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how much vehicle excise duty was collected in Stoke-on-Trent local authority area in 2014-15.
Answered by Andrew Jones
The Department does not hold data on VED receipts directly attributed to local authority areas.