Asked by: Peter Fortune (Conservative - Bromley and Biggin Hill)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if she will make an assessment of the adequacy of the accessibility of the consultation entitled RVAR 2010 exemption: Chiltern Railways passenger information system, published on 3 December 2024.
Answered by Simon Lightwood - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Transport)
The Department for Transport considers the ‘RVAR 2010 exemption: Chiltern Railways passenger information system’ consultation to be accessible.
Rail vehicle accessibility public consultations are published on GOV.UK in a format known as HTML which is accessible by default and easier for most people to use. The consultation offers two mechanisms, email and post, for consultees to respond via.
Asked by: Peter Fortune (Conservative - Bromley and Biggin Hill)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what plans her Department has for Southeastern.
Answered by Simon Lightwood - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Transport)
Southeastern’s service level will be increasing with the introduction of an additional 44 services per day when the timetable is updated in December. We will continue to work with Southeastern, as we do with all train operators, to drive further improvements in performance and passenger experience while at the same time ensuring we maximise value for money for the taxpayer.
Asked by: Peter Fortune (Conservative - Bromley and Biggin Hill)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether she plans to reallocate £8.3 billion of HS2 funding for road repairs.
Answered by Lilian Greenwood - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Transport)
The additional £500 million that the Chancellor has announced at the Budget for local highway maintenance for the 2025/26 financial year represents an increase of nearly 50% in comparison to the current financial year. This goes above and beyond the funding that had been provisionally earmarked for 2025/26 as part of the previous Government’s Network North programme and shows that this Government is serious about tackling the maintenance backlog on local roads.
Asked by: Peter Fortune (Conservative - Bromley and Biggin Hill)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what funding for pothole repairs is available to London boroughs.
Answered by Simon Lightwood - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Transport)
Transport policy is devolved to the Mayor of London and Transport for London. It is up to the Mayor to decide how much of the wider funding for London’s transport is passed down to the boroughs, who are also able to use other sources of locally raised income to fund highway maintenance activities in their areas.
This Government takes the condition of local roads very seriously and is committed to maintaining and renewing the local highway network. As part of this, it has a commitment to enable local highway authorities in England to fix up to a million more potholes a year.
The Government will confirm funding allocations for 2025/26 to English local highway authorities in due course.
Asked by: Peter Fortune (Conservative - Bromley and Biggin Hill)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how much new funding is available for pothole repairs excluding funding previously allocated following the cancellation of HS2.
Answered by Lilian Greenwood - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Transport)
The additional £500 million that the Chancellor has announced at the Budget for local highway maintenance for the 2025/26 financial year represents an increase of nearly 50% in comparison to the current financial year. This goes above and beyond the funding that had been provisionally earmarked for 2025/26 as part of the previous Government’s Network North programme and shows that this Government is serious about tackling the maintenance backlog on local roads.
Asked by: Peter Fortune (Conservative - Bromley and Biggin Hill)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment she has made of the potential impact on motorists of pay-per-mile road charges.
Answered by Lilian Greenwood - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Transport)
The Department has not undertaken any such assessment since the conclusion of the road pricing demonstrations project in 2011.