Asked by: Sharon Hodgson (Labour - Washington and Sunderland West)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many ultra low emission vehicles of what models have been registered under the Plug-in Car Grant.
Answered by Robert Goodwill
17601 plug-in car grant payments have been made between the start of the scheme and 31 December 2014.
These were for the following models:
Manufacturer | Model | No. of claims paid |
Nissan | Leaf | 6398 |
Mitsubishi | Outlander | 4354 |
Toyota | Plug-in Prius | 1206 |
Vauxhall | Ampera | 1139 |
Renault | Zoe | 873 |
BMW | i3 REV | 624 |
BMW | i3 BEV | 535 |
Tesla | Model S | 515 |
Peugeot | iOn | 343 |
Mercedes | Smart Fortwo | 268 |
Mitsubishi | i-Miev | 206 |
BMW | i8 | 194 |
Citroen | C-Zero | 193 |
Porsche | Panamera | 191 |
Volvo | v60 | 177 |
Chevrolet | Volt | 130 |
VW | e-Up | 89 |
Renault | Fluence | 82 |
VW | e-Golf | 46 |
Audi | E-tron | 37 |
MIA | Mia | 1 |
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The total number of PICG claims to end December 2014 is 22125. The difference between this figure, and the total payments figure above, represents claims currently being processed in the system.
The Department for Transport also publishes registration data per model. The latest annual data is available here:
https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/veh01-vehicles-registered-for-the-first-time
Asked by: Sharon Hodgson (Labour - Washington and Sunderland West)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many and what proportion of (a) his Department's staff and (b) staff working for companies contracted by his Department who are paid less than the Living Wage are (i) women and (ii) men.
Answered by Claire Perry
The Department for Transport does not pay any staff less than the living wage. The Department does not hold information about rates of pay for staff working for companies contracted out by the Department.
Asked by: Sharon Hodgson (Labour - Washington and Sunderland West)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many members of his Department's executive board are disabled.
Answered by Claire Perry
There are 17 executive and non-executive members of the Department’s executive board and we are not aware of any who have declared themselves to be disabled.
All Civil Servants are encouraged to declare their protected characteristics on the department’s equality monitoring database. This information is only accessed for statistical purposes and cannot be accessed on an individual basis. Other members of the Board are not required to declare their protected characteristic.
Asked by: Sharon Hodgson (Labour - Washington and Sunderland West)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many members of his Department's executive board are (a) white British and (b) from any other ethnic background.
Answered by Claire Perry
There are 17 executive and non-executive members of the Department’s executive board and we are not aware of any who have declared themselves to be from any other ethnic background.
All Civil Servants are encouraged to declare their protected characteristics on the department’s database. This information is only accessed for statistical purposes and cannot be accessed on an individual basis. Other members of the Board are not required to declare their protected characteristics.
Asked by: Sharon Hodgson (Labour - Washington and Sunderland West)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many members of his Department's executive board are (a) male and (b) female.
Answered by Claire Perry
There are 17 executive and non-executive members of the Department’s executive board of whom (a) 11 are male and (b) 6 are female.
Asked by: Sharon Hodgson (Labour - Washington and Sunderland West)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many and what proportion of (a) his Department's staff and (b) staff working for companies contracted by his Department who are paid less than the Living Wage are (i) white British and (ii) from an ethnic minority background.
Answered by Claire Perry
The Department for Transport does not pay any staff less than the living wage.
The Department does not hold information about rates of pay for staff working for companies contracted out by the Department.
Asked by: Sharon Hodgson (Labour - Washington and Sunderland West)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many and what proportion of (a) his Department's staff and (b) staff working for companies contracted by his Department are paid less than the Living Wage.
Answered by Claire Perry
The Department for Transport does not pay any staff less than the living wage.
The Department does not hold information about rates of pay for staff working for companies contracted out by the Department.
Asked by: Sharon Hodgson (Labour - Washington and Sunderland West)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment he has made of recent trends in reported road casualties.
Answered by Robert Goodwill
The figures for 2013 show the lowest number of road deaths since records began.
The Government is working on a range of measures to continue to improve road safety including introducing a new drug driving offence, cycle proofing roads, and removing the “statutory option” to ensure more drink drivers are brought to justice.
Asked by: Sharon Hodgson (Labour - Washington and Sunderland West)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what proportion of staff within his Department who have been dismissed following formal disciplinary proceedings in each of the last five financial years classed themselves as white British.
Answered by Stephen Hammond
I refer the honourable Member to the answer given by my Right Honourable Friend the Minister for the Cabinet Office, the Hon Member for Horsham, on 16 June 2014 [Official Report, column 433W].
Asked by: Sharon Hodgson (Labour - Washington and Sunderland West)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what proportion of staff within his Department who have been subject to formal disciplinary proceedings in each of the last five financial years classed themselves as white British.
Answered by Stephen Hammond
I refer the honourable Member to the answer given by my Right Honourable Friend the Minister for the Cabinet Office, the Hon Member for Horsham, on 16 June 2014 [Official Report, column 433W].