Asked by: Shabana Mahmood (Labour - Birmingham, Ladywood)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment his Department has made of the vilability of proposals to reintroduce Birmingham Snow Hill Platform 4 as part of the Midlands Rail Hub.
Answered by Chris Heaton-Harris - Secretary of State for Northern Ireland
Reinstatement of Snow Hill Platform Four is being considered as part of the Outline Business Case (OBC) for Midlands Rail Hub, following consideration and approval of the SOBC in 2020. I expect Network Rail to complete this work by late-2022.
Asked by: Shabana Mahmood (Labour - Birmingham, Ladywood)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 10 March 2021 to Question 163196 on Clean Air Zones, if his Department will review the £2 charge levied by his Department on access to the central services unit for clean air zones if evidence shows a delay between required payment to his Department and the collection of the fee to road users by local authorities.
Answered by Rachel Maclean
Motorists that are required to pay a Clean Air Zone charge must pay the charge no later than one week from the day of travel. Clean Air Zone charges collected by local authorities are available within 7 days of payment.
Invoicing terms are subject to agreements between local authorities and the department but local authorities will be required to pay to use the CAZ Central Service no more frequently than every quarter. Invoices will cover use of the CAZ central services in the previous quarter and will be required to be paid approximately two months after end of the same quarter.
Asked by: Shabana Mahmood (Labour - Birmingham, Ladywood)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 10 March 2021 to Question 163196 on Clean Air Zones, what steps he has taken to estimate the time delay between local authorities collecting the clean air zone fee on road users and the payment of the £2 charge levied by his Department on access to the central services unit for clean air zones.
Answered by Rachel Maclean
Motorists that are required to pay a Clean Air Zone charge must pay the charge no later than one week from the day of travel. Clean Air Zone charges collected by local authorities are available within 7 days of payment.
Invoicing terms are subject to agreements between local authorities and the department but local authorities will be required to pay to use the CAZ Central Service no more frequently than every quarter. Invoices will cover use of the CAZ central services in the previous quarter and will be required to be paid approximately two months after end of the same quarter.
Asked by: Shabana Mahmood (Labour - Birmingham, Ladywood)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 10 March 2021 to Question 163196 on Clean Air Zones, what assessment he has made of the effect of the period of time between collecting the clean air zone fee on road users and the payment of the £2 charge levied by his Department to access the central services unit for clean air zones on local authorities’ budgets.
Answered by Rachel Maclean
Motorists that are required to pay a Clean Air Zone charge must pay the charge no later than one week from the day of travel. Clean Air Zone charges collected by local authorities are available within 7 days of payment.
Invoicing terms are subject to agreements between local authorities and the department but local authorities will be required to pay to use the CAZ Central Service no more frequently than every quarter. Invoices will cover use of the CAZ central services in the previous quarter and will be required to be paid approximately two months after end of the same quarter.
Asked by: Shabana Mahmood (Labour - Birmingham, Ladywood)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether additional financial support will be made available to local authorities in response to the £2 charge levied by the Department for Transport on access to the central services unit for clean air zones.
Answered by Rachel Maclean
There will be no impact on local authority budgets. All implementation and operational costs are either covered by central Government funding or from revenues raised from the charges that local authorities collect from customers that pay to drive in the clean air zone.
Asked by: Shabana Mahmood (Labour - Birmingham, Ladywood)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what impact assessments have been undertaken by his Department on the effect of costs associated with accessing the Department for Transport’s central services unit for clean air zones on local authority budgets.
Answered by Rachel Maclean
There will be no impact on local authority budgets. All implementation and operational costs are either covered by central Government funding or from revenues raised from the charges that local authorities collect from customers that pay to drive in the clean air zone.
Asked by: Shabana Mahmood (Labour - Birmingham, Ladywood)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what discussions he has had with Birmingham City Council on the £2 charge for using the central services unit for clean air zones.
Answered by Rachel Maclean
There will be no impact on local authority budgets. All implementation and operational costs are either covered by central Government funding or from revenues raised from the charges that local authorities collect from customers that pay to drive in the clean air zone.
Asked by: Shabana Mahmood (Labour - Birmingham, Ladywood)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, which councils currently access the central services unit for clean air zones; and what the cost applied to each council using the central services unit for clean air zones has been to date.
Answered by Rachel Maclean
There will be no impact on local authority budgets. All implementation and operational costs are either covered by central Government funding or from revenues raised from the charges that local authorities collect from customers that pay to drive in the clean air zone.
Asked by: Shabana Mahmood (Labour - Birmingham, Ladywood)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what discussion he has had with the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government on the effect of the £2 charge for access to the central services unit for clean air zones on local authority budgets.
Answered by Rachel Maclean
There will be no impact on local authority budgets. All implementation and operational costs are either covered by central Government funding or from revenues raised from the charges that local authorities collect from customers that pay to drive in the clean air zone.
Asked by: Shabana Mahmood (Labour - Birmingham, Ladywood)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what estimate he has made of the effect of the £2 charge for access to the central services unit for clean air zones on local authority budgets.
Answered by Rachel Maclean
There will be no impact on local authority budgets. All implementation and operational costs are either covered by central Government funding or from revenues raised from the charges that local authorities collect from customers that pay to drive in the clean air zone.