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Written Question
Electric Vehicles: Charging Points
Monday 7th December 2020

Asked by: Lord Judd (Labour - Life peer)

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask Her Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to ensure a comprehensive, UK-wide interoperable vehicle charging network to improve consumer take-up of electric vehicles.

Answered by Baroness Vere of Norbiton - Parliamentary Secretary (HM Treasury)

The Department is committed to ensuring consumers have reliable access to a comprehensive vehicle charging network so that they can easily and conveniently charge their cars wherever they live and travel. The Government will invest £1.3 billion to accelerate the roll out of charging infrastructure, targeting support on rapid charge points on motorways and major roads to dash any anxiety around long journeys, and installing more on-street charge points near homes and workplaces to make charging as easy as refuelling a petrol or diesel car. To increase confidence in the charging network and reduce range anxiety, the Department will work with industry to make?chargepoint?data available so that drivers can easily locate and access available?chargepoints. Government will consult on using its powers under the Automated Electric Vehicles Act to mandate minimum requirements to improve people’s experience when using a public chargepoint.

Written Question
Railways: North of England
Wednesday 13th December 2017

Asked by: Lord Judd (Labour - Life peer)

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the remarks by Baroness Sugg on 31 October (HL Deb, col 1360) on future railway investment, what steps they intend to take to improve rail services in West Cumbria and on the Newcastle to Carlisle line.

Answered by Baroness Sugg

The following train service improvements will be delivered by December 2019:-

  • More frequent trains will be provided from Carlisle to MetroCentre and Newcastle (2tph), at least 10 of which per day will be high-quality Northern Connect services using fully refurbished trains.

  • Up to six extra services will be provided per day to stations on the Cumbria Coast route between Barrow-in-Furness and Carlisle, with more capacity on the busiest services and the timetable better suited to employees at Sellafield and Whitehaven.

  • Sunday services from Carlisle to Whitehaven will be extended to Barrow-in-Furness and frequency enhanced, providing a Sunday service on the full length of the Cumbria Coast route.

Written Question
West Coast Railway Line
Wednesday 13th December 2017

Asked by: Lord Judd (Labour - Life peer)

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the remarks by Baroness Sugg on 31 October (HL Deb, col 1360) on railway investment, what assessment they have made of the cost-effectiveness and impact on reliability of investments in signalling on the West Coast Mainline.

Answered by Baroness Sugg

Network Rail regularly monitors the reliability of its infrastructure, and this monitoring indicates a broad improvement in signalling asset reliability across the West Coast Main Line resulting from the ongoing replacement and modernisation of the infrastructure. Network Rail’s monitoring indicates overall reductions in delays from track circuit, signalling system and power supply failures following resignalling and other measures.

The Office of Rail and Road undertakes yearly reviews of Network Rail’s expenditure and efficiency, to help customers, funders and other interested parties gain a better understanding of Network Rail’s financial performance. This is published in the Annual Efficiency and Finance Assessment of Network Rail.