Asked by: Jerome Mayhew (Conservative - Broadland and Fakenham)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what information her Department holds on how many passenger services operated by each train operating company were affected by defective passenger doors in each month since July 2024.
Answered by Keir Mather - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Transport)
The Department does not hold a centrally collated dataset showing how many passenger services operated by each train operating company were affected by defective passenger doors in each month since July 2024. Information on rolling stock defects, including door-related faults, data are recorded and managed by Network Rail and train operators.
Asked by: Jerome Mayhew (Conservative - Broadland and Fakenham)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, which train operating company had the highest proportion of passenger services that were (a) cancelled because of rolling stock failures and (b) operated with fewer carriages than planned in the latest 12-month period for which data is available.
Answered by Keir Mather - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Transport)
The Department does not hold data on the number of services cancelled because of rolling stock failures. The Department does hold information on short formations. However, the data is recorded differently across operators and is not sufficiently comparable to enable a robust assessment of which operator had the highest proportion of services operated with fewer carriages than planned. The Department expects train operators to provide appropriate capacity to meet anticipated passenger demand, including through the effective deployment and maintenance of rolling stock.
Asked by: Jerome Mayhew (Conservative - Broadland and Fakenham)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many passenger services were cancelled due to rolling stock failure by each train operating company in each month since July 2024.
Answered by Keir Mather - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Transport)
The Department expects train operators to provide appropriate capacity to meet anticipated passenger demand, including through the effective deployment and maintenance of rolling stock. While the Department does not hold data on rolling stock availability, or the number of services cancelled because of rolling stock failure, it does hold information on short formations. However, this data is recorded differently across operators, and is not sufficiently comparable to enable a robust assessment of which operator had the highest proportion of services operated with fewer carriages than planned.
Asked by: Jerome Mayhew (Conservative - Broadland and Fakenham)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 10 July 2026 to Question 15380 on South Eastern Main Line: Mobile Broadband, what the names and locations are of the (a) 57 railway tunnels and (b) 12 Network Rail-managed stations included in the current phase of Project Reach.
Answered by Keir Mather - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Transport)
The 12 Network Rail-managed stations included in the current phase of Project Reach are Birmingham New Street, Bristol Temple Meads, Edinburgh Waverley, Glasgow Central, Leeds, Liverpool Lime Street, London Euston, London King’s Cross, London Liverpool Street, London Paddington, London Waterloo and Manchester Piccadilly.
The locations of the 57 tunnels included in the programme are located on the East Coast, West Coast, Great Western, Thameslink, Kent, North West and Wales.
The full list of tunnels is as follows –
| Tunnel |
1 | Ardsley Tunnel |
2 | Potters Bar East Tunnel |
3 | Potters Bar West Tunnel |
4 | Wood Green Centre Tunnel |
5 | Wood Green East Tunnel |
6 | Wood Green West Tunnel |
7 | Barnet West Tunnel |
8 | Barnet East Tunnel |
9 | Barnet Centre Tunnel |
10 | Hadley Wood South East Tunnel |
11 | Hadley Wood South West Tunnel |
12 | Beechwood Tunnel |
13 | Polperro Tunnel |
14 | Buckshead Tunnel |
15 | Farnworth Tunnel (Up Line) |
16 | Farnworth Tunnel (Down Line) |
17 | Clerkenwell No. 1 Tunnel |
18 | Copenhagen Centre Tunnel |
19 | Copenhagen West Tunnel |
20 | Gasworks Centre Tunnel |
21 | Gasworks West Tunnel |
22 | Ludgate Tunnel |
23 | Harecastle New Tunnel |
24 | Primrose Hill Slow Lines Tunnel |
25 | Primrose Hill Fast Lines Tunnel |
26 | Kensal Green Fast Lines Tunnel |
27 | Kensal Green Slow Lines Tunnel |
28 | Kilsby Tunnel |
29 | Stowe Hill Tunnel |
30 | Linslade Up Slow Tunnel |
31 | Linslade Centre Bore (Up Fast / Down Slow) |
32 | Linslade Down Fast Tunnel |
33 | Macclesfield Tunnel |
34 | Prestbury Tunnel |
35 | Marley Tunnel |
36 | Monument Lane Tunnel |
37 | New Street North Western Lines Tunnel |
38 | New Street Midland Lines Tunnel |
39 | Newport New Tunnel |
40 | Newport Old Tunnel |
41 | Northchurch Fast Line Tunnel |
42 | Northchurch Up Slow Tunnel |
43 | Northchurch Down Slow Tunnel |
44 | Parsons Tunnel |
45 | Patchway Up New Tunnel |
46 | Shugborough Tunnel |
47 | Sodbury Tunnel |
48 | Alderton Tunnel |
49 | Peascliffe Tunnel |
50 | Stoke Tunnel |
51 | Treverin Tunnel |
52 | Watford Tunnel Slow Lines |
53 | Watford Tunnel Fast Lines |
54 | Welwyn North Tunnel |
55 | Welwyn South Tunnel |
56 | Whiteball Tunnel |
57 | Wiveliscombe Tunnel |
Asked by: Jerome Mayhew (Conservative - Broadland and Fakenham)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether the Euston Masterplan will set out the anticipated number of (a) homes and (b) affordable homes to be delivered.
Answered by Simon Lightwood - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Transport)
We are working at pace with our Master Development Partner, Lendlease, on a Masterplan for Euston, with an emphasis on growth and delivering much needed housing. The number of homes and affordable homes is subject to the development of the Masterplan.
Asked by: Jerome Mayhew (Conservative - Broadland and Fakenham)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what the estimated annual operating cost of the Euston Delivery Company will be once established as a public body.
Answered by Simon Lightwood - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Transport)
Currently the Euston Delivery Company sits as a business unit within the Department for Transport as its capability is built. We expect EDC to be stood up as a public body in the Autumn, and its administrative operating budget will be confirmed at that point.
Asked by: Jerome Mayhew (Conservative - Broadland and Fakenham)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, when she expects the outline planning application for the redevelopment of Euston to be submitted.
Answered by Simon Lightwood - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Transport)
We are working with our Master Development Partner Lendlease on a Masterplan and outline planning application to deliver high-quality mixed-use development around the new HS2 Station and renewed Network Rail station. Lendlease is aiming to submit a planning application in 2027.
Asked by: Jerome Mayhew (Conservative - Broadland and Fakenham)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how much each arm's length body sponsored by her Department has spent on (a) in-house external affairs or public affairs functions and (b) external public affairs or lobbying consultants since 4 July 2024.
Answered by Simon Lightwood - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Transport)
The table below shows how much each arm’s length body (ALB) sponsored by the Department for Transport has spent on (a) in-house external affairs or public affairs functions and (b) external public affairs or lobbying consultants since 4 July 2024. The figures relate to engagement with political stakeholders unless it has not been possible to disaggregate from wider spend. In relation to part (b) of the question, DfT ALBs have not spent money on lobbying consultants.
ALB | How much ALB has spent on (a) in-house external affairs or public affairs functions since July 2024 | How much ALB has spent on (b) external public affairs or lobbying consultants since July 2024 |
Active Travel England
| N/a – it has not been possible to disaggregate engagement with political stakeholders from wider spend | N/a – it has not been possible to disaggregate engagement with political stakeholders from wider spend |
Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency | £0 | £0 |
Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency | £0 | £0 |
Maritime Coastguard Agency | £0 | £0 |
Vehicle Certification Agency | £0 | £0 |
British Transport Police Authority | £0 | £0 |
Traffic Commissioners for Great Britain | £0 | £0 |
National Highways | N/a – it has not been possible to disaggregate engagement with political stakeholders from wider spend | N/a – it has not been possible to disaggregate engagement with political stakeholders from wider spend |
Network Rail | £325,174 | £600,580 |
| ||
East West Rail Company Ltd
| N/a – it has not been possible to disaggregate engagement with political stakeholders from wider spend | N/a – it has not been possible to disaggregate engagement with political stakeholders from wider spend |
HS2 | N/a – it has not been possible to disaggregate engagement with political stakeholders from wider spend | N/a – it has not been possible to disaggregate engagement with political stakeholders from wider spend |
Northern Lighthouse Board | £0 | £0 |
Transport Focus | N/a – it has not been possible to disaggregate engagement with political stakeholders from wider spend | N/a – it has not been possible to disaggregate engagement with political stakeholders from wider spend |
Trinity House | £0 | £0 |
Office of Rail and Road | £223,635 | £15,940 |
Asked by: Jerome Mayhew (Conservative - Broadland and Fakenham)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether her Department has considered introducing powers for the courts to impose an interim driving disqualification on individuals charged with specified drug driving offences pending the outcome of criminal proceedings.
Answered by Lilian Greenwood - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Work and Pensions)
The Department has recently consulted on possible reforms to strengthen enforcement against drink and drug driving, including temporary licence suspension-type measures for suspected offenders before a case is concluded. The consultation has now closed and responses are being analysed.
Existing legislation already provides for courts to impose disqualification in appropriate cases, including as part of sentence. It also provides for interim disqualification in specified circumstances after conviction where an offence involving obligatory or discretionary disqualification has not yet been finally dealt with. Sentencing and disqualification decisions in individual cases are matters for the independent courts.
For drug-driving offences, the current evidential framework relies on blood analysis for specified-limit offences. The Department has also consulted on possible future changes to drink and drug-driving enforcement and has supported exploratory work on roadside evidential drug-testing capability, including the Mobile Evidential Drug Testing Instrument (MEDTI) Demonstrator. Any change to evidential testing arrangements would require further scientific, legal and operational consideration.
Asked by: Jerome Mayhew (Conservative - Broadland and Fakenham)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether her Department is assessing the potential use of Home Office-approved roadside evidential drug testing devices to replace laboratory analysis for specified drug driving offences.
Answered by Lilian Greenwood - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Work and Pensions)
The Department has recently consulted on possible reforms to strengthen enforcement against drink and drug driving, including temporary licence suspension-type measures for suspected offenders before a case is concluded. The consultation has now closed and responses are being analysed.
Existing legislation already provides for courts to impose disqualification in appropriate cases, including as part of sentence. It also provides for interim disqualification in specified circumstances after conviction where an offence involving obligatory or discretionary disqualification has not yet been finally dealt with. Sentencing and disqualification decisions in individual cases are matters for the independent courts.
For drug-driving offences, the current evidential framework relies on blood analysis for specified-limit offences. The Department has also consulted on possible future changes to drink and drug-driving enforcement and has supported exploratory work on roadside evidential drug-testing capability, including the Mobile Evidential Drug Testing Instrument (MEDTI) Demonstrator. Any change to evidential testing arrangements would require further scientific, legal and operational consideration.