Speech in Westminster Hall - Tue 05 Jun 2018
Stonehenge: Proposed Road Alterations
"Does my hon. Friend acknowledge that it is not just local MPs in Wiltshire who want the dual carriageway to be built, but MPs from across the south-west, particularly in Cornwall, Devon and Somerset, where we rely heavily on tourism? The fact that we have only one main trunk road …..."Steve Double - View Speech
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Tue 05 Jun 2018
Stonehenge: Proposed Road Alterations
"My hon. Friend is making a powerful and well thought out speech. Does he agree that we have got to come to a balanced position, where we balance preservation against progress, and protecting the past against allowing the future to take place? The one option we cannot allow is doing …..."Steve Double - View Speech
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Tue 05 Jun 2018
Stonehenge: Proposed Road Alterations
"I am listening very carefully to what the hon. Lady is saying, but can she clarify whether the Labour party supports the development of this new road and the solution of the tunnel under Stonehenge? It is important that those of us in the south-west understand what the Labour party’s …..."Steve Double - View Speech
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Tue 05 Jun 2018
Stonehenge: Proposed Road Alterations
"Just to clarify, is the hon. Lady saying that the Labour party does not support the current plans and would not support the development of this road?..."Steve Double - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 04 Jun 2018
Rail Timetabling
"I welcome the Secretary of State’s statement and his commitment to investigate what has gone wrong and to take appropriate action as soon as possible. Does he believe that part of the answer to ensuring that this situation never happens again is combining the operation of track and train under …..."Steve Double - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 24 May 2018
Oral Answers to Questions
"For the first time in decades, the people of Cornwall are enjoying brand-new buses on our roads. They offer facilities that people used to think were available only in big cities, such as contactless payment, on-board wi-fi and charging points, and they have been delivered thanks to a partnership between …..."Steve Double - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 16 May 2018
East Coast Main Line
"I suspect the Secretary of State is of a similar age to me and therefore remembers the last time our railways were nationalised. Is he therefore bemused by the somewhat romantic image that the Labour party portrays of what the railways were like? My recollection is that they were dirty, …..."Steve Double - View Speech
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Written Question
Friday 23rd March 2018
Asked by:
Steve Double (Conservative - St Austell and Newquay)
Question
to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if his Department will list the (a) names and (b) ICAO identifiers of all current Civil Aviation Authority-licensed airfields in the UK.
Answered by Jesse Norman
- Shadow Leader of the House of Commons
123 aerodromes in the United Kingdom currently have either an aerodrome certificate or license. These are set out in the table attached.
Written Question
Tuesday 30th January 2018
Asked by:
Steve Double (Conservative - St Austell and Newquay)
Question
to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what discussions he has had with Network Rail on improving safety at level crossings in Cornwall; and what steps are being taken to improve such safety.
Answered by Lord Johnson of Marylebone
My Department has frequent discussions with Network Rail about level crossing safety across the UK.
In 2018, Network Rail will be delivering a number of safety improvements in Cornwall as part of its Capacity Enabling Scheme. These enhancements include upgrading seven high-risk level crossings located on the mainline railway. This will see the installation of overlay miniature stop lights (OMSL) systems at user-worked, footpath and bridleway crossings, and the enhancement of a half barrier public road crossing to full barrier protection with obstacle detection.
Written Question
Tuesday 23rd January 2018
Asked by:
Steve Double (Conservative - St Austell and Newquay)
Question
to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of bringing forward proposals to increase minimum tyre depth treads to prevent used tyre imports and improve road safety.
Answered by Jesse Norman
- Shadow Leader of the House of Commons
The Department for Transport does not monitor the number of imported part-worn tyres and has made no estimate of the numbers entering the country.
Tyres used on light-duty vehicles must have a minimum tread depth of 1.6 mm through a continuous band across the central three-quarters of the tread width and around the whole circumference of the tyre. The value of 1.6 mm was introduced in 1992 following a review of the effectiveness of worn tyres in the context of safety performance; there are no plans to review this requirement. Part-worn tyres are required to exceed these safe limits, and to have a minimum of 2 mm tread depth across the whole tread width and around the whole circumference of the tyre.
The assessment of tyres during roadside inspection follows the guidance applied during the annual MOT test. The following table provides details on the total number of vehicles checked by the Department’s Agencies in each of the last three years, and the number which failed to meet the required standard for one or more tyres.
Tyre condition roadside assessment
Number of Vehicles checked and number of vehicles with one or more failure
2015/16 |
Number Checked | Number Defective | Percentage Defective |
88861 | 7770 | 8.74 |
2016/17 |
Number Checked | Number Defective | Percentage Defective |
134275 | 7383 | 5.5 |
2017/18 (to date) |
Number Checked | Number Defective | Percentage Defective |
108344 | 5746 | 5.3 |