Asked by: Siân Berry (Green Party - Brighton Pavilion)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps she plans to take to (a) reduce emissions of harmful air pollutants from ships at ports in England and (b) incorporate the requirements of the environmental principles policy statement into maritime policy.
Answered by Mike Kane - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Transport)
Greening transport, which includes tackling air pollution, is a key priority for the Secretary of State. The UK has consistently supported ambitious international efforts to limit air pollutant emissions from global shipping at the International Maritime Organization, including adopting the North Sea ECA for SOx emissions in 2005 which was expanded to include NOx emissions in 2021. Since April 2010, the UK has also applied equivalent SOx regulations to inland-water vessels and ships at berth in all ports.
The Department considers the environmental principles policy statement across all policy areas, in line with our legal duty.
Asked by: Siân Berry (Green Party - Brighton Pavilion)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps she plans to take to improve (a) step-free and (b) disabled access at railway stations; whether the Access for All funding scheme will continue; and what her planned timeline is to tackle access issues within the rail network.
Answered by Simon Lightwood - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Transport)
We are carefully considering the best approach to the Access for All programme. This Government is committed to improving the accessibility of the railway and recognises the social and economic benefits this brings to communities.
Asked by: Siân Berry (Green Party - Brighton Pavilion)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, when she plans to publish an updated Road Safety Statement; and whether that update will include a Vision Zero approach.
Answered by Lilian Greenwood - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Transport)
The Government has announced that it intends to publish a new Road Safety Strategy, the first in over a decade. Work is already underway on this and further details will be set out in due course.
Asked by: Siân Berry (Green Party - Brighton Pavilion)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how much (a) revenue and (b) capital funding her Department has provided for (i) walking, (ii) cycling, (iii) healthy and safer streets, (iv) disabled access and (v) other ways to support active travel in England in each financial year since 2010-11.
Answered by Simon Lightwood - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Transport)
The table below outlines Departmental funding for active travel for the period 2011/12 to 2023/24. It is not possible to disaggregate this into separate amounts for walking, cycling, healthy streets and so forth. Comparable data for 2010/11 is unavailable. The figures do not include funding from wider sources within the Department such as the City Region Sustainable Transport Settlements (CRSTS) or the Levelling Up Fund.
Year | Capital (£ million) | Revenue (£ million) | Combined* (£ million) |
2011-12 | 39 | 64 | 54 |
2012-13 | 72 | 59 | 54 |
2013-14 | 131 | 63 | 54 |
2014-15 | 50 | 54 | 54 |
2015-16 | 74 | 57 | 54 |
2016-17 | 43 | 44 | 0 |
2017-18 | 72 | 30 | 0 |
2018-19 | 29 | 36 | 0 |
2019-20 | 3 | 37 | 0 |
2020-21 | 187 | 118 | 0 |
2021-22 | 205 | 74 | 0 |
2022-23 | 200 | 73 | 0 |
2023-24 | 54 | 58 | 0 |
*Local Sustainable Transport Fund including wider sustainable transport spend.