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Written Question
Carbon Emissions: Finance
Thursday 21st March 2024

Asked by: Louise Haigh (Labour - Sheffield, Heeley)

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 11 March 2024 to Question 17164 on Carbon Emissions: Finance, how much funding has been allocated for the continuation of his Department's 2024-25 net zero policies in the 2025-26 financial year.

Answered by Anthony Browne - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Transport)

Departmental budgets are set at Spending Reviews. The previous Spending Review (SR21) set departmental budgets until 24-25. Funding for the continuation of net zero policies in 25-26 will be allocated as part of the next Spending Review.


Written Question
Carbon Emissions: Finance
Thursday 21st March 2024

Asked by: Louise Haigh (Labour - Sheffield, Heeley)

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 11 March 2024 to Question 17165 on Carbon Emissions: Finance, how much funding each of the policies listed will receive in the financial year 2025-26.

Answered by Anthony Browne - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Transport)

Departmental budgets are set at Spending Reviews. The previous Spending Review (SR21) set departmental budgets until 2024-25. Funding for the continuation of net zero policies in 2025-26 will be allocated as part of the next Spending Review.


Written Question
Department for Transport: Defamation
Tuesday 12th March 2024

Asked by: Louise Haigh (Labour - Sheffield, Heeley)

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to paragraphs 7.16 and 7.17 of the Ministerial Code, on how many occasions Ministers in his Department have informed the Law Officers that they are the defendants in a libel action in (a) their personal capacity, (b) their official position and (c) both since 19 December 2019.

Answered by Anthony Browne - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Transport)

The Ministerial Code also states, at paragraph 2.13: “The fact that the Law Officers have advised or have not advised and the content of their advice must not be disclosed outside Government without their authority.” Paragraph 2.13 covers whether a minister has notified the Law Officers of a personal role in litigation.


Written Question
Department for Transport: Written Questions
Tuesday 12th March 2024

Asked by: Louise Haigh (Labour - Sheffield, Heeley)

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, when he plans to respond to Question 15694 on Department for Transport: DP World and P&O Ferries ,tabled by the Hon. Member for Sheffield, Heeley on 26 February 2024 for answer on 29 February 2024.

Answered by Guy Opperman - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Transport)

A response to PQ 15694 was provided on 8 March 2024.


Written Question
Shipping: Crew
Monday 11th March 2024

Asked by: Louise Haigh (Labour - Sheffield, Heeley)

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will make an estimate of the number of non-qualifying seafarers working on vessels in scope of the Seafarers Wages Act 2023; and when he plans to publish the updated impact assessment.

Answered by Guy Opperman - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Transport)

In 2023, the Government passed the Seafarers’ Wages Act to address this issue. Based on data and assumptions used in the Seafarers’ Wages Act 2023 impact assessment (https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/62e2aa8ed3bf7f75af0923d5/seafarers-wages-impact-assessment.pdf), the Department for Transport estimates that there are 9,400 non-qualifying seafarers working on vessels in scope of the Seafarers Wages Act 2023. A non-qualifying seafarer is defined as all other seafarers on vessels within scope of The Seafarers’ Wages Act 2023, that do not directly benefit from the policy, because it is estimated that they are not currently at risk of being paid below the National Minimum Wage equivalent (NMWe).

An updated version of the impact assessment will be published in due course.


Written Question
Shipping: Minimum Wage
Monday 11th March 2024

Asked by: Louise Haigh (Labour - Sheffield, Heeley)

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what recent estimate he has made of the number of seafarers working on ships that regularly use UK ports who are paid less than the national minimum wage.

Answered by Guy Opperman - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Transport)

In 2023, the Government passed the Seafarers’ Wages Act to address this issue. Based on data and assumptions used in the Seafarers’ Wages Act 2023 impact assessment (https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/62e2aa8ed3bf7f75af0923d5/seafarers-wages-impact-assessment.pdf), the Government’s most recent estimate is that 4,400 individuals working on services in scope of the Act (i.e. those working on international services calling at a UK port at least 120 times a year) may be being paid less than the UK national minimum wage. The secondary legislation that the Department is consulting on currently will bring the Act into force to address this issue.


Written Question
Carbon Emissions: Finance
Monday 11th March 2024

Asked by: Louise Haigh (Labour - Sheffield, Heeley)

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to page 73 of the Autumn Budget and Spending Review, which policies were identified for receipt of core net zero spend funding from the £1 billion allocated to fund decarbonisation of cars and vans in the financial year 2024-25 at the time that Budget was published; how much funding each of those policies was due to receive; and whether any of those policies have been discontinued since 2021.

Answered by Anthony Browne - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Transport)

The £1 billion allocated to fund the decarbonisation of cars and vans for the financial year 2024-25 in the 2021 Spending Review was allocated to a range of policies across the Department for Transport and the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (now the Department for Business and Trade).

For the Department for Transport, HM Treasury allocated £619m for policies relating to zero emission vehicles, electric vehicle (EV) charging infrastructure and air quality.

This sum was subsequently allocated by the Department to specific policies, including the Local Electric Vehicle Infrastructure Fund, the Rapid Charging Fund, the Plug-in Vehicle Grants, EV Homecharging Schemes, the Workplace Charging Scheme and the Joint Air Quality Unit’s NO2 programme. All grants are kept under continual review to ensure best value for money for the taxpayer.

The remaining funding (£333m) was allocated for the Department for Business, Energy and Industry Strategy, for the electrification of UK vehicles and their supply chain, including through the Automotive Transformation Fund Programme. This aims to support the creation of an internationally competitive EV supply chain in the UK, through research and development and capital investments.


Written Question
Carbon Emissions: Finance
Monday 11th March 2024

Asked by: Louise Haigh (Labour - Sheffield, Heeley)

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to page 73 of the Autumn Budget and Spending Review 2021, which policy areas will receive funding from the £1.8 billion allocated to core net zero spend relating to the Department for Transport for the 2024-25 financial year; and how much funding as been issued to each of those policy areas for the 2024-25 financial year.

Answered by Anthony Browne - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Transport)

The £1.8 billion allocated to the Department for Transport for the financial year 2024-25 in the 2021 Spending Review supports net zero policies across zero emission vehicles (including buses) and electric vehicle charging infrastructure, the bus transformation funding to support local authority Bus Service Improvement Plans, air quality improvement measures, active travel policies, City Region Sustainable Transport Settlements, Nexus Metrofleet in Newcastle, rail electrification, and the UK’s production of sustainable aviation fuel.

£333 million of the £1.8 billion was reallocated to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, (now the Department for Business and Trade), for the electrification of UK vehicle manufacturing and their supply chains, including through the Automotive Transformation Fund Programme.

The Department’s business planning process for 2024-25 financial year remains ongoing and final plans will be published in due course as per standard practice.


Written Question
Shipping: Crew
Monday 11th March 2024

Asked by: Louise Haigh (Labour - Sheffield, Heeley)

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to the Seafarers in the UK Shipping Industry statistics, published by his Department on 22 February 2024, how many vessels belonging to members of the UK Chamber of Shipping were surveyed as part of the data collection process.

Answered by Guy Opperman - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Transport)

The Department of Transport commission the UK Chamber of Shipping to carry out the Seafarer Employment Survey of its membership, collecting information on the seafarers the companies employ. The survey is about seafarers, therefore data on the number of vessels belonging to members of the UK Chamber of Shipping was not collected as part of this survey.


Written Question
Re-employment: Appeals
Monday 11th March 2024

Asked by: Louise Haigh (Labour - Sheffield, Heeley)

Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what information his Department holds on the number of employment tribunals in relation to fire and rehire practices that have found in favour of employees in (a) 2021, (b) 2022, (c) 2023 and (d) 2024.

Answered by Mike Freer - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Ministry of Justice)

Fire and rehire claims are usually recorded under an unfair dismissal coding. From 01 January 2021 to date, there are more than 17,000 unfair dismissal judgments on the Employment Tribunal decisions register. To provide the information requested it would be at a disproportionate cost.