Speech in Westminster Hall - Tue 29 Oct 2019
Bus Services: Cumbria
"Thank you, Dame Cheryl.
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 24 Oct 2019
Oral Answers to Questions
"HS2 is an investment for the north of England, but it would be a lot more popular in the north of England if the trains actually stopped somewhere in the far north of England. At present, there are no plans whatsoever for HS2 trains to stop in Cumbria, even though …..."Tim Farron - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 18 Jul 2019
Oral Answers to Questions
"In places such as Sedbergh and Dent, community bus services have become a lifeline for people who would otherwise be isolated from the communities around them, and I am massively grateful to the volunteers who make those services possible. Community bus services have become essential because over the past 30 …..."Tim Farron - View Speech
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Written Question
Wednesday 20th February 2019
Asked by:
Tim Farron (Liberal Democrat - Westmorland and Lonsdale)
Question
to the Department for Transport:
To ask the hon. Member for Houghton and Sunderland South, representing the Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission, what the timetable is for the full Boundary Review of local councils.
Answered by Bridget Phillipson
- Minister for Women and Equalities
The Local Government Boundary Commission for England has no current plans to carry out a single programme of electoral reviews for all local authorities in England.
The Commission administers a rolling programme of electoral reviews and can include local authorities if they meet one or more of the following criteria:
- If a council has high levels of electoral inequality, where some councillors represent many more, or many fewer, voters than the average for the local authority area. The Commission targets authorities where the number of electors in 30% or more wards or divisions varies from the average of the council by 10% or more. Where one ward or division varies by 30% or more, the Commission will also consider carrying out a review. In both cases, the Commission will carry out a review if it believes the variances will not be corrected, without a review, within a reasonable period of time.
- If a council has not undergone an electoral review in more than 12 years.
- Where the Commission has been asked to carry out an electoral review.
In the financial year 2019/20, the Commission plans to initiate electoral reviews in 25 English local authorities selected through the criteria set out above.
Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 14 Feb 2019
Oral Answers to Questions
"New rolling stock will of course be welcome, but is the Minister aware that there will be no stock rolling at all north of Preston over the busy Easter weekend because Network Rail is closing the line for maintenance? Does he not know that the Lake district is Britain’s biggest …..."Tim Farron - View Speech
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Written Question
Friday 14th September 2018
Asked by:
Tim Farron (Liberal Democrat - Westmorland and Lonsdale)
Question
to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to his Department's news story of 28 June 2018, Rail passengers in the north to start being compensated in early July, what plans he has for compensation to be provided for passengers who are not season ticket holders affected by recent disruptions to train services in Cumbria.
Answered by Lord Johnson of Marylebone
All passengers are entitled to and encouraged to apply for Delay Repay compensation from their train operator. Both train operators, Northern and TransPennine Express will also be opening an additional compensation scheme to ensure that people who travelled regularly on the disrupted routes, but without a season ticket, will be eligible for compensation. This was announced at the end of July by Transport for the North, which is leading on the design of the scheme. Further details will be announced shortly by Transport for the North and the train operators.
Written Question
Friday 14th September 2018
Asked by:
Tim Farron (Liberal Democrat - Westmorland and Lonsdale)
Question
to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many operational bus services have been running in Cumbria in each of the last 20 years.
Answered by Nusrat Ghani
Bus operators must register their services with a traffic commissioner in the traffic area in which the service operates. The traffic commissioner operates a live system. The number of bus services at a local authority level is only provided for the current point in time. However, data is held for previous years at a regional level.
Whilst the data is not held to the level and time period requested, the table below shows the number of live local bus registrations in the North Western Traffic Area as at 31 March of each year.
Live local bus service registrations in the North Western Traffic Area, as at 31 March, 2008 to 2018
Year | Live local bus registrations |
2008 | 4,241 |
2009 | 4,268 |
2010 | 4,159 |
2011 | 4,256 |
2012 | 4,144 |
2013 | 3,926 |
2014 | 3,404 |
2015 | 3,490 |
2016 | 3,274 |
2017 | 3,544 |
2018 | 3,353 |
Source: Traffic Commissioners' annual reports
Local authorities are best placed to manage changes in their local bus network. The Bus Services Act 2017 gives them additional powers to do so through partnership working with commercial operators. It also gives Mayoral Combined authorities the automatic right to franchise their bus network and the Department for Transport can also grant these powers to other local authorities who make a satisfactory business case. The Department is also developing regulations to require bus operators and local transport authorities to provide data, in open formats, about local bus services including routes and timetable data; fares and ticket data; and real time information. We are working closely with industry to develop the regulations and it is intended the requirements will be phased in over the next few years.
Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 19 Jun 2018
Confidence in the Secretary of State for Transport
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 19 Jun 2018
Confidence in the Secretary of State for Transport
"That is very decent of the hon. Gentleman, and I am grateful to him. He is making an important speech. Does he agree that there is something of the red herring about conversations suggesting the new timetable is the source of the current calamity? Does he also agree that strategic …..."Tim Farron - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 19 Jun 2018
Confidence in the Secretary of State for Transport
"The Secretary of State will be aware that for two weeks in my constituency, there were no services at all along the Lake district—the service into Britain’s second biggest visitor destination. It took a heritage charter train to provide any service over the past few days, and I very much …..."Tim Farron - View Speech
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