Asked by: Marcus Jones (Conservative - Nuneaton)
Question to the Department for Transport:
What assessment he has made of the potential effect of High Speed Two on the economies of the (a) Midlands and (b) North of England.
Answered by Nusrat Ghani
HS2 will transform the UK economy with construction supporting up to 30,000 new jobs, as set out in the HS2 Skills, Employment and Education Strategy, launched last month. 70 percent of construction jobs supported over the entire HS2 programme will be outside of London. It will directly link 8 of the UK’s 10 largest cities and provide a step change in the country’s railway capacity.
Asked by: Marcus Jones (Conservative - Nuneaton)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what information holds on the number of passenger (a) arrivals and (b) departures at Nuneaton railway station in each of the last five years.
Answered by Lord Johnson of Marylebone
Estimates of the number of passengers travelling to and from Nuneaton railway station as estimated by the Office of Rail and Road are as follows:
Year | Station entries | Station exits | Interchanges |
2016/17 | 643,010 | 643,010 | 599,545 |
2015/16 | 618,246 | 618,246 | 423,978 |
2014/15 | 569,041 | 569,041 | 440,061 |
2013/14 | 560,276 | 560,276 | 562,930 |
2012/13 | 520,499 | 520,499 | 277,659 |
Source: Office of Rail and Road, Estimates of Station Usage
Station entries and exits are an estimation of the number of passenger journeys with an origin or final destination of Nuneaton respectively. The methodology applied makes an assumption that the number of station entries and exits are equal.
Journeys in which a passenger changes from one train to another at Nuneaton are included as interchanges. Passengers on trains serving Nuneaton who do not board or alight at this station are not included in these statistics.
Asked by: Marcus Jones (Conservative - Nuneaton)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how much was spent on improvements to the railways in England and Wales in Control Period 4; and what estimate he has made of how much will be spent in Control Period 5.
Answered by Robert Goodwill
Over Control Period 4, the total amount spent on enhancements on the railways in England and Wales, as set out in Network Rail's delivery plan update, was £7.557 billion (2012/13 prices).
Over Control Period 5, it is estimated that £11.446 billion.
Asked by: Marcus Jones (Conservative - Nuneaton)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what funding his Department allocated to projects relating to cycling between (a) 2005 and 2010 and (b) 2010 to 2014.
Answered by Robert Goodwill
During the five financial years 2005/6 to 2009/10, the Department for Transport (DfT) provided funding for cycling through Cycling England, an arm's length organisation set up in 2005; in that period, Cycling England received £105m from the DfT.
During the five financial years 2010/11 to 2014/15, the DfT allocated a final £63m to Cycling England, and has allocated direct funding of £224m for cycling projects, comprising: the £94m Cycling Cities and National Parks fund, £28.5m for Links to Schools / Linking Communities, the £35m cycle safety fund, £14.5m for Cycle Rail, £4.8m to the Highways Agency and £46.8m for Bikeability. In addition, the DfT's Local Sustainable Transport Fund is providing £540m for local authorities to prioritise sustainable transport projects, of which 28% or £151m is being allocated to cycling projects. So total investment by this government in cycling in the five financial years 2010/11 to 2014/15 is £438m.
DfT funding for the LSTF and its Cycling Ambition, Cycle-Rail, and Linking Communities funds is often used to lever matching local contributions. When these other sources are included, spend on cycling in England is equal to £5 per person a year, whilst spend in the eight cycling ambition cities is around £10 per person a year. From 2015/16, the LSTF forms part of the Local Growth Fund, a long-term funding commitment of £2bn a year.