Asked by: Stephanie Peacock (Labour - Barnsley East)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, which of the recommendations in the Report of the Task and Finish Group on Taxi and Private Hire Vehicle Licensing the Government plans to adopt.
Answered by Nusrat Ghani - Minister of State (Minister for Europe)
The Government response to the Task and Finish Group on Taxi and Private Hire Vehicle Licensing advised which of the recommendations made to government will be taken forward; this includes several which will require legislation to enact, such as the introduction of national minimum standards and national enforcement powers. The Government will legislate for these and other commitments when time allows.
Asked by: Stephanie Peacock (Labour - Barnsley East)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what the cost to the public purse is for electric vehicle charging infrastructure through grants from the Office of Low Emissions Vehicles' in, (a) Barnsley, (b) South Yorkshire, (c) Yorkshire and the Humber and (d) the UK in each year since 2010.
Answered by Michael Ellis
Information on the distribution of total costs to the public purse of all current charging infrastructure grants and competitions from the Office of Low Emissions Vehicles for the requested areas is set out below:
Workplace Charging Scheme
| a) Barnsley | b) South Yorkshire | c) Yorkshire and the Humber | d) UK |
2017 | £1,200 | £1,200 | £9,900 | £101,400 |
2018 | £12,000 | £23,700 | £79,100 | £742,400 |
2019* | £0 | £15,500 | £55,000 | £449,000 |
*figure for 2019 up to the start of April.
Electric Vehicle Homecharge Scheme.
| a) Barnsley | b) South Yorkshire | c) Yorkshire and the Humber | d) UK |
September 2014 | £3,498 | £9,738 | £89,409 | £1,407,563 |
2015 | £12,600 | £95,900 | £262,982 | £3,924,383 |
2016 | £24,887 | £122,887 | £582,937 | £7,458,224 |
2017 | £22,500 | £136,900 | £678,732 | £8,943,624 |
2018 | £31,000 | £167,500 | £758,799 | £10,423,724 |
2019* | £6,500 | £28,000 | £168,500 | £2,360,240 |
*figure for 2019 up to the start of April.
Competitions:
Barnsley: Total: £0
ULEV Taxi Infrastructure Scheme: Nil
Low Emission Bus Scheme: Nil
Ultra-Low Emission Bus Scheme: Nil
Go Ultra Low City Scheme: Nil
South Yorkshire: Total: £1.808m
ULEV Taxi Infrastructure Scheme:
Sheffield City Council awarded £488k.
Low Emission Bus Scheme:
Sheffield City Region Combined Authority awarded £1.32m;
Ultra-Low Emission Bus Scheme: Nil
Go Ultra Low City Scheme: Nil
Yorkshire and the Humber: Total: £12.755m
ULEV Taxi Infrastructure Scheme:
Sheffield City Council awarded £488k;
WYCA awarded £1.98m.
Low Emission Bus Scheme:
City of York awarded £3.3m.
Sheffield City Region Combined Authority awarded £1.32m;
Transdev Blazefield awarded £2.25m.
West Yorkshire Combined Authority (WYCA) awarded £234k.
Ultra-Low Emission Bus Scheme:
First West Yorkshire awarded £1.75m;
WYCA awarded £617k;
Go Ultra Low City Scheme:
City of York awarded £816k.
UK: Total: £160m
ULEV Taxi Infrastructure Scheme: £20.8m
Low Emission Bus Scheme: £42m
Ultra-Low Emission Bus Scheme: £48m
Go Ultra Low City Scheme: £40m
London chargepoint Scheme: £10m
Asked by: Stephanie Peacock (Labour - Barnsley East)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what the (a) total number and (b) number of publicly available charge-points for electric vehicles there were in (i) Barnsley, (ii) South Yorkshire, and (iii) Yorkshire and the Humber in each year since 2010.
Answered by Michael Ellis
Figures on the total number and number of publicly available electric vehicle chargepoints are unavailable. Members of the public and businesses are able to install chargepoints without government support, and information on these are not routinely collected. As at 8th July 2019 the charging point platform Zap-map reports that there are 1,216 public chargepoint connectors available in Yorkshire and the Humber.
Asked by: Stephanie Peacock (Labour - Barnsley East)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what the total amount of funding through the Office of Low Emission Vehicles' workplace charging scheme was in (a) Barnsley, (b) South Yorkshire, (c) Yorkshire and the Humber and (d) the UK in each year since 2010.
Answered by Michael Ellis
The Workplace Charging Scheme (WCS) was introduced in 2017, whereby businesses, charities and public sector organisations can apply for grants to help roll-out chargepoints at workplaces. The estimated amount of funding awarded through the WCS, based upon the known number of grants for each of the requested areas, is as follows:
| a) Barnsley | b) South Yorkshire | c) Yorkshire and the Humber | d) UK |
2017 | £1,200 | £1,200 | £9,900 | £101,400 |
2018 | £12,000 | £23,700 | £79,100 | £742,400 |
2019* | £0 | £15,500 | £55,000 | £449,000 |
*figure for 2019 up to the start of April.
Asked by: Stephanie Peacock (Labour - Barnsley East)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how much in grant funding the Government has made available through the on-street residential chargepoint grant scheme in (a) Barnsley, (b) South Yorkshire, (c) Yorkshire and the Humber and (d) the UK in each year since 2010.
Answered by Michael Ellis
No proposals have been received from, and therefore no awards have been made to, local authorities in (a) Barnsley, (b) South Yorkshire, (c) Yorkshire and the Humber under the On-street Residential Chargepoint Scheme to date.
The Government has allocated grant funding through the On-street Residential Chargepoint Scheme in the UK in each year since 2010 as follows:
2016/17 - £1,000,000.00
2017/18 - £1,500,000.00
2018/19 - £2,000,000.00
2019/20 - £2,500,000.00
Asked by: Stephanie Peacock (Labour - Barnsley East)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what the total amount of funding through the Office of Low Emission Vehicles' electric vehicle homecharge scheme was in (a) Barnsley, (b) South Yorkshire, (c) Yorkshire and the Humber and (d) the UK in each year since 2010.
Answered by Michael Ellis
The Electric Vehicle Homecharge Scheme (EVHS) was introduced in 2015. The total amount of funding awarded through the EVHS to applications from private plug-in vehicle owners for each of the requested areas is as follows:
| a) Barnsley | b) South Yorkshire | c) Yorkshire and the Humber | d) UK |
September 2014 | £3,498 | £9,738 | £89,409 | £1,407,563 |
2015 | £12,600 | £95,900 | £262,982 | £3,924,383 |
2016 | £24,887 | £122,887 | £582,937 | £7,458,224 |
2017 | £22,500 | £136,900 | £678,732 | £8,943,624 |
2018 | £31,000 | £167,500 | £758,799 | £10,423,724 |
2019* | £6,500 | £28,000 | £168,500 | £2,360,240 |
*figure for 2019 up to the start of April.
Asked by: Stephanie Peacock (Labour - Barnsley East)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many official visits (a) he and (b) Ministers in his Department made to (i) Barnsley and (ii) South Yorkshire in each year since their respective appointments.
Answered by Michael Ellis
The Secretary of State and the current Ministerial team have visited South Yorkshire in the following years since their respective appointments:
2016 – 1
2017 – 1
2018 – 0
2019 - 2
Previous Departmental Ministers have also visited South Yorkshire since 2016 and Ministers have met with MPs and officials from South Yorkshire in London during this time.
Asked by: Stephanie Peacock (Labour - Barnsley East)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment his Department has made of the financial effect on business of decreases in rail punctuality.
Answered by Andrew Jones
The Department’s general approach to appraising the impact of delays and cancellations is published in the Department’s Transport Appraisal Guidance (https://www.gov.uk/guidance/transport-analysis-guidance-webtag). There is a particular approach to appraising punctuality impacts for business users that takes into account the impact that the delay has on the business as well as the individual who is delayed. Unit A1.3 of the guidance explains how impacts on business users are assessed.
Asked by: Stephanie Peacock (Labour - Barnsley East)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how much of the pothole fund has been allocated to Barnsley in each year since 2010.
Answered by Jesse Norman
Barnsley Metropolitan Borough Council is a constituent member of the Sheffield City Region Combined Authority. Since 2015 highway maintenance block funding has been paid directly to Sheffield City Region Combined Authority.
The funding provided by the Department for Transport for highway maintenance, including pothole repair, to Barnsley Metropolitan Borough Council and the Sheffield City Region Combined Authority since 2010 is shown in the table below.
Year | Funding Stream £m | Barnsley | Sheffield City Region |
2010/11 | Highways Maintenance Block |
| 17.333 |
June 2010 | Severe Weather | 0.330 |
|
March 2011 | Severe Weather | 0.788 |
|
2011/12 | Highways Maintenance Block |
| 15.932 |
2012/13 * | Highways Maintenance Block |
| 12.394 |
2013/14 | Highways Maintenance Block (including top up) |
| 11.075 |
March 2014 | Wet Weather | 0.606 |
|
2014/15 | Highways Maintenance Block (including top up) |
| 10.082 |
2014/15 | Pothole Fund | 0.503 |
|
2015/16 | Highways Maintenance Block |
| 12.568 |
2016/17 | Highways Maintenance Block (including incentive element) |
| 12.226 |
2016/17 | Pothole Action Fund | 0.218 |
|
2017//18 | Highways Maintenance Block (including incentive element) |
| 12.248 |
2017/18 | Pothole Action Fund |
| 1.660 |
2017/18 | Flood Resilience Fund |
| 0.665 |
2018/19 | Highways Maintenance Block (including incentive element) |
| 11.791 |
2018/19 | Pothole Action Fund |
| 0.700 |
2018/19 | Budget £420 million | 1.683 |
|
Total |
| 4.128 | 118.674 |
Note: In August 2012 Sheffield City Council entered into a 25-year Highway Maintenance Private Finance Initiative. The Department provides Sheffield City Council with a fixed payment of £47.664 million per annum to fund the contract, and in consequence the Council is no longer eligible for separate highway maintenance funding.
Asked by: Stephanie Peacock (Labour - Barnsley East)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how much of the pothole fund has been allocated to South Yorkshire in each year since 2010.
Answered by Jesse Norman
Barnsley Metropolitan Borough Council is a constituent member of the Sheffield City Region Combined Authority. Since 2015 highway maintenance block funding has been paid directly to Sheffield City Region Combined Authority.
The funding provided by the Department for Transport for highway maintenance, including pothole repair, to Barnsley Metropolitan Borough Council and the Sheffield City Region Combined Authority since 2010 is shown in the table below.
Year | Funding Stream £m | Barnsley | Sheffield City Region |
2010/11 | Highways Maintenance Block |
| 17.333 |
June 2010 | Severe Weather | 0.330 |
|
March 2011 | Severe Weather | 0.788 |
|
2011/12 | Highways Maintenance Block |
| 15.932 |
2012/13 * | Highways Maintenance Block |
| 12.394 |
2013/14 | Highways Maintenance Block (including top up) |
| 11.075 |
March 2014 | Wet Weather | 0.606 |
|
2014/15 | Highways Maintenance Block (including top up) |
| 10.082 |
2014/15 | Pothole Fund | 0.503 |
|
2015/16 | Highways Maintenance Block |
| 12.568 |
2016/17 | Highways Maintenance Block (including incentive element) |
| 12.226 |
2016/17 | Pothole Action Fund | 0.218 |
|
2017//18 | Highways Maintenance Block (including incentive element) |
| 12.248 |
2017/18 | Pothole Action Fund |
| 1.660 |
2017/18 | Flood Resilience Fund |
| 0.665 |
2018/19 | Highways Maintenance Block (including incentive element) |
| 11.791 |
2018/19 | Pothole Action Fund |
| 0.700 |
2018/19 | Budget £420 million | 1.683 |
|
Total |
| 4.128 | 118.674 |
Note: In August 2012 Sheffield City Council entered into a 25-year Highway Maintenance Private Finance Initiative. The Department provides Sheffield City Council with a fixed payment of £47.664 million per annum to fund the contract, and in consequence the Council is no longer eligible for separate highway maintenance funding.