Written questions

1,018 written questions tabled, most recent first.

12 Apr 2021 · Department for Transport

Cycling: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how much funding has been provided under the Bikeability grant scheme on average per child in each of the last 10 years.

12 Apr 2021 · Department for Transport

Cycling: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, when the Bikeability grant was last put out to contract.

12 Apr 2021 · Department for Transport

Motorways: Safety

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether smart motorway schemes referenced the Road Investment Strategy 2: 2020 - 2025 that have not yet started main works will (a) include emergency refuge areas no more than a mile apart and (b) be built to t

12 Apr 2021 · Department for Transport

DfT OLR Holdings

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to the DfT OLR Holdings Limited Annual Report and Financial Statements for the year ended 31 March 2020, what assessment he has made of the value for money for the public purse of the Company ope

12 Apr 2021 · Department for Transport

High Speed 2 Line: Rolling Stock

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, when will the preferred bidder of the HS2 rolling stock procurement process will be announced.

18 Mar 2021 · Department for Transport

Roads: Oxford-Cambridge Arc

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what the cost to the public purse was of the Oxford to Cambridge expressway project before it was cancelled.

17 Mar 2021 · Department for Transport

Motorways: Accidents

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to his oral contribution of 11 March 2021, Official Report, column 995, how many deaths there have been on smart motorways to date.

15 Mar 2021 · Department for Transport

Civil Servants: Location

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what estimate his Department has made of the cost of the relocation of his Department's civil servants to (a) Birmingham and (b) Leeds in each forthcoming financial year.

15 Mar 2021 · Department for Transport

Roads

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many miles of road in England are (a) conventional motorways, (b) controlled motorways, (c) dynamic hard shoulder, (d) all-lane running and (e) strategic road network.

3 Mar 2021 · Department for Transport

Motorways: Accidents

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will publish the total number of driving deaths on smart motorways in each of the last five years.

3 Mar 2021 · Department for Transport

Motorways: Road Traffic Offences

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many fines were handed out to motorists for offences committed on smart motorways in each of the last five years.

26 Feb 2021 · Department for Transport

Motorways

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 24 February 2021 to Question 154650, how many (a) Traffic Officers and (b) control room staff across Highways England’s regional operations have responsibility for managing the SRN, in

19 Feb 2021 · Department of Health and Social Care

Travel: Quarantine

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many staff are working in hotels used for hotel quarantine; and of those how many have been vaccinated against covid-19.

19 Feb 2021 · Department for Transport

Motorways

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many staff at Highways England have been dedicated to recovering broken down vehicles on smart motorways in each of the last five years.

27 Jan 2021 · Department for Transport

Railway Stations: Access

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many and what proportion of UK railway stations have steps but no lift access.

25 Jan 2021 · Department for Transport

Department for Transport: Coronavirus

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many confirmed cases of covid-19 there have been among his Department's (a) employed staff and (b) sponsored agency staff; and how many of those staff have had to self-isolate as a result of covid-19.

14 Jan 2021 · Department of Health and Social Care

Coronavirus: Vaccination

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, which private companies are involved with the logistics and transportation of covid-19 vaccines; and what role each such company has in that process.

14 Jan 2021 · Department for Transport

Ferries: Freight

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, which ferry routes have been affected by the redeployment of ferries to support the transportation of freight since the UK left the EU.

14 Jan 2021 · Department for Transport

Railways: Infrastructure

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment he has made of the (a) environmental and (b) economic benefits to (i) passengers and (ii) taxpayers of taking a whole life asset approach to rail infrastructure including rolling stock.

11 Jan 2021 · Department for Transport

Business Travel: Coronavirus

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, when the Government last reviewed the merits of its decision to exempt high value business travellers from existing covid-19 quarantine restrictions for international arrivals in England.

14 Dec 2020 · Department for Transport

Railways: Standards

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 21 January 2019 to Question 208287 on Railways: Standards, what progress has been made on learning and sharing the lessons on the introduction of new rolling stock.

11 Dec 2020 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Cooperatives

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what plans he has to extend the provisions made under the Corporate Insolvency and Governance Act 2020 to cover (a) the holding of AGMs and (b) other aspects co-operative society

9 Dec 2020 · Department for Transport

Airports and Railway Stations: Coronavirus

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether his Department has made an assessment of the effect of the decision to provide financial support to airports but not international railway stations during the covid-19 outbreak.

7 Dec 2020 · Department for Transport

Railways: Coronavirus

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to his announcement of 3 December 2020 of a Christmas travel plan, how many train operating companies are suspending their peak travel times on 23 and 24 of December 2020.

30 Nov 2020 · Department of Health and Social Care

Coronavirus: Screening

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many completed covid-19 tests have gone missing (a) nationally and (b) by local authority.

25 Nov 2020 · Department for Transport

Network Rail: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to the Spending Review 2020, what revised estimate he has for the (a) total £10.4 billion rail enhancements budget and (b) total £30.9billion operations, maintenance and renewals budget within Ne

19 Nov 2020 · Department for Transport

Highways England: Traffic Officers

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many full-time equivalent traffic officers were employed by Highways England in each region of England in each year since 2010.

2 Nov 2020 · Department for Education

Schools: Greater Manchester

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, for what reason the Regional Schools Commissioner did not engage in the Q1 Serious Case Review conducted by the Manchester Safeguarding Partnership; and whether that decision was based on the policy of his Depa

21 Oct 2020 · Department for Transport

Emergency Recovery Measures Agreements

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what incentives are included in the (a) Emergency Measure Agreements and (b) Emergency Recovery Measure Agreements for train operators to (i) reduce costs and (ii) increase revenues.

21 Oct 2020 · Department for Transport

Railways

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment he has made of the effectiveness of the use of rail industry data in rail (a) operations and (b) infrastructure; and if he will make a statement.

Source: official written-questions record.