Question to the Home Office:

To ask His Majesty's Government what work they are undertaking with London St Pancras Highspeed and Eurostar to review border controls at St Pancras station following the introduction of the UK electronic travel authorisation scheme, and the phased roll-out of the EES and ETIAS.

Answered by Lord Hanson of Flint - Minister of State (Home Office)

The Government continues to engage with the French Ministry of the Interior and Police aux Frontieres about border control at St Pancras, including on plans for EES and ETIAS. We are working closely with Eurostar and London St Pancras Highspeed to support them in mitigating any disruption. Ultimately outbound border control, including pre-registration for EES and automation at St Pancras is a matter for the French authorities and industry.

For inbound travel to St Pancras, the UK Electronic Travel Authorisation check takes place ahead of travel to the UK, therefore this has no impact on outbound border control at St Pancras.

Question to the Home Office:

To ask His Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to allow greater automation of border controls at St Pancras station to support increased services through the Channel Tunnel, including to Germany and Switzerland.

Answered by Lord Hanson of Flint - Minister of State (Home Office)

The Government continues to engage with the French Ministry of the Interior and Police aux Frontieres about border control at St Pancras, including on plans for EES and ETIAS. We are working closely with Eurostar and London St Pancras Highspeed to support them in mitigating any disruption. Ultimately outbound border control, including pre-registration for EES and automation at St Pancras is a matter for the French authorities and industry.

For inbound travel to St Pancras, the UK Electronic Travel Authorisation check takes place ahead of travel to the UK, therefore this has no impact on outbound border control at St Pancras.

Question to the Home Office:

To ask His Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to increase the use of pre-registration services to enable passengers to complete immigration processes before arriving at St Pancras station.

Answered by Lord Hanson of Flint - Minister of State (Home Office)

The Government continues to engage with the French Ministry of the Interior and Police aux Frontieres about border control at St Pancras, including on plans for EES and ETIAS. We are working closely with Eurostar and London St Pancras Highspeed to support them in mitigating any disruption. Ultimately outbound border control, including pre-registration for EES and automation at St Pancras is a matter for the French authorities and industry.

For inbound travel to St Pancras, the UK Electronic Travel Authorisation check takes place ahead of travel to the UK, therefore this has no impact on outbound border control at St Pancras.

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask His Majesty's Government what support they are providing to Oxfordshire County Council to develop and build the proposed Greenway route between Thame and Haddenham and Thame Parkway Station.

Answered by Lord Hendy of Richmond Hill - Minister of State (Department for Transport)

The Spending Review in June 2025, which covers multiple years from 2026/27 onwards, allocated £616 million for Active Travel England to support local authorities to build and maintain walking, wheeling, and cycling infrastructure including dedicated cycling routes. This comes on top of £222.5 million announced in February 2025 for local authorities over 2024/25-25/26.

Active Travel funding supports local transport authorities with developing and constructing walking, wheeling and cycling facilities. Oxfordshire County Council has received £2,650,279 from the Consolidated Active travel fund 2025/6. However, it is up to local authorities to determine and put forward their local active travel infrastructure priorities for funding. As yet, ATE has not been asked to provide design assurance for this potential scheme.

ATE work closely with local authorities to ensure walking, wheeling and cycling routes are safe and accessible. ATE regularly provide design assurance services to local authorities who are planning and designing improvements to new or existing active travel facilities.

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask His Majesty's Government what is the cost to date of the installation of new emergency areas on smart motorways, broken down by motorway.

Answered by Lord Hendy of Richmond Hill - Minister of State (Department for Transport)

A total of £390 million was previously committed for National Highways to construct over 150 additional Emergency Areas across the All Lane Running smart motorway network through the National Emergency Area Retrofit programme. Work was completed at the end of March 2025, and all Emergency Areas are now open with no permanent traffic management in place.

National Highways is continuing close-out activities in relation to this programme and final costs, broken down on a scheme-by-scheme basis, are expected to be available by end of June 2026.

Found: Coles (The Chair); Lord Blencathra; Baroness Cass; Baroness Coffey; Lord Laming; Lord Mott; Baroness Pidgeon