Asked by: Chris Stephens (Scottish National Party - Glasgow South West)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what his plans are for the Government's 49 per cent stake in NATS; and if he will make a statement.
Answered by Robert Goodwill
The Government is currently committed to exploring the sale of its 49% shareholding in NATS and maximising returns to the taxpayer.
We have not yet set a timetable for the sale.
Asked by: Chris Stephens (Scottish National Party - Glasgow South West)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what discussions his Department has had with the Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency on (a) that agency's staff survey results and (b) recent industrial action affecting that agency; and if he will make a statement.
Answered by Robert Goodwill
Initial discussions on the 2015 People Survey results for the Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA) have taken place in senior management fora. Further discussions are planned, including within existing DVSA governance arrangements.
The Department for Transport officials have been working closely with the management side at DVSA to try to resolve the industrial dispute, and to help ensure that the disruption to public services is kept to a minimum. The Permanent Secretary for Transport has written twice to the unions since the dispute began urging them to suspend their action and return to discussions with DVSA management.
Asked by: Chris Stephens (Scottish National Party - Glasgow South West)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what meetings (a) Ministers and (b) officials in his Department have had with representatives of (i) the Taxpayers' Alliance, (ii) the Confederation of British Industry, (iii) the Institute of Economic Affairs, (iv) the Adam Smith Institute, (v) the Freedom Association, (vi) the Politics and Economics Research Trust and (vii) the Midlands Industrial Council in the last 12 months.
Answered by Robert Goodwill
Details of Ministers' meetings andPermanentSecretaries with external organisations are published up to 31March 2015 and can be accessed on Gov.uk at:
https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/ministers-transparency-publications.
Further publications of Ministerial and Permanent Secretaries meetings will be published in due course.