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Written Question
Roads: Chesterfield
Monday 29th July 2024

Asked by: Toby Perkins (Labour - Chesterfield)

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether she has had discussions with Derbyshire County Council on a timetable for commencing investigations to ensure the viability of the proposed Chesterfield Staveley Regeneration route.

Answered by Lilian Greenwood - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Transport)

I am grateful to the Honorable Member for his continued support for the scheme and I look forward to meeting with you to discuss it in the future if this would be beneficial to you. I can confirm that discussions on the viability of the proposed Chesterfield Regeneration route are ongoing between my officials and Derbyshire County Council. The timetable has yet to be confirmed on the commencement of the investigations; however, additional information has been submitted by Derbyshire council to help ministers with their considerations.


Written Question
Roads: Chesterfield
Thursday 25th July 2024

Asked by: Toby Perkins (Labour - Chesterfield)

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what the status is of the Chesterfield Staveley Regeneration route.

Answered by Lilian Greenwood - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Transport)

I am grateful to the Honorable Member for his continued support for the scheme and I would be very happy to meet him to discuss it. The Outline Business Case submitted by Derbyshire County Council has been assessed in detail by officials, who have obtained additional information from Derbyshire County Council to help Ministers in their considerations.


Written Question
Members: Correspondence
Tuesday 21st May 2024

Asked by: Toby Perkins (Labour - Chesterfield)

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, when the Minister for Roads and Local Transport plans to respond to requests made by the hon. Member for Chesterfield dated 21 March, 26 April and 13 May 2024 on a potential meeting to discuss the Staveley-Chesterfield regeneration route.

Answered by Guy Opperman

I met with the Honorable Member to discuss this scheme on the 14th of May The Outline Business Case submitted by Derbyshire County Council has been assessed in detail by officials, who have recently obtained additional information from Derbyshire County Council to help Ministers in their considerations. A decision will be announced as soon as possible.


Written Question
Roads: Chesterfield
Monday 20th May 2024

Asked by: Toby Perkins (Labour - Chesterfield)

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to the oral contribution of the Minister for Roads and Local Transport in response to the question from the hon. Member for Chesterfield of 21 March 2024, Official Report, column 1047, which Members the Minister has met to discuss the Chesterfield to Staveley regeneration route; and if he will meet the the hon. Member for Chesterfield to discuss that matter.

Answered by Guy Opperman

I met with the Honorable Member on the 14th of May and discussed this scheme in detail. The Outline Business Case submitted by Derbyshire County Council has been assessed by Department for Transport officials, who have recently obtained additional information from Derbyshire County Council to help Ministers in their considerations. A decision will be announced as soon as possible.


Written Question
Members: Correspondence
Monday 20th May 2024

Asked by: Toby Perkins (Labour - Chesterfield)

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to the oral contribution of the Minister for Roads and Local Transport in response to the question from the hon. Member for Chesterfield of 21 March 2024, Official Report, column 1047, when the Minister plans to write to the hon. Member for Chesterfield.

Answered by Guy Opperman

I met with the Honorable Member on the 14th of May and discussed this scheme in detail. The Outline Business Case submitted by Derbyshire County Council has been assessed by Department for Transport officials, who have recently obtained additional information from Derbyshire County Council to help Ministers in their considerations. A decision will be announced as soon as possible.


Written Question
Roads: Chesterfield
Monday 20th May 2024

Asked by: Toby Perkins (Labour - Chesterfield)

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether he has had discussions with Members on the Chesterfield to Staveley regeneration route.

Answered by Guy Opperman

I met with the Honorable Member on the 14th of May and discussed this scheme in detail. The Outline Business Case submitted by Derbyshire County Council has been assessed by Department for Transport officials, who have recently obtained additional information from Derbyshire County Council to help Ministers in their considerations. A decision will be announced as soon as possible.


Written Question
Roads: Chesterfield
Monday 20th May 2024

Asked by: Toby Perkins (Labour - Chesterfield)

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of the Chesterfield to Staveley regeneration route.

Answered by Guy Opperman

I met with the Honorable Member on the 14th of May and discussed this scheme in detail. The Outline Business Case submitted by Derbyshire County Council has been assessed by Department for Transport officials, who have recently obtained additional information from Derbyshire County Council to help Ministers in their considerations. A decision will be announced as soon as possible.


Written Question
Logistics: Vacancies
Tuesday 7th February 2023

Asked by: Toby Perkins (Labour - Chesterfield)

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will make an estimate of the (a) number of vacancies and (b) level of skill shortages in each occupation within the logistics industry.

Answered by Richard Holden

The latest ONS data estimates vacancies in the Transport and Storage sector to be 47,000 between October-December 2022, down 15.3% on the previous quarter. We are taking forward initiatives to ensure the sector has the skills it needs, including the introduction of HGV skills bootcamps.


Written Question
Electric Vehicles: Grants
Monday 11th July 2022

Asked by: Toby Perkins (Labour - Chesterfield)

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what recent assessment he has made of the effectiveness of financial incentives provided by the electric car grant before its withdrawal.

Answered by Trudy Harrison

The Government’s approach to supporting the uptake of electric cars is clearly working – while the Government slowly reduced the grant over time, the sale of electric vehicles soared. The sales of fully electric cars grew from less than 1,000 in 2011 to almost 100,000 in the first 5 months of 2022 alone.

An independent report commissioned by the Office for Zero Emission Vehicles to assess the impact of the grant scheme, found that the grant has had a material impact on demand for new EVs, but also that the importance of it has reduced as the market has matured and price has become less of a barrier to vehicle uptake.


Written Question
Electric Vehicles: Grants
Monday 11th July 2022

Asked by: Toby Perkins (Labour - Chesterfield)

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to the cessation of the electrical vehicle grant, what additional steps his Department is taking to help encourage the public to purchase electric vehicles.

Answered by Trudy Harrison

This Government has committed £2.5 billion since 2020 to support the transition to zero emission vehicles, with funding to offset their higher upfront cost, and to accelerate the rollout of chargepoint infrastructure.

Although Government has recently closed the plug-in car grant to new orders, Plug-in Grants will continue until at least financial year 2023/24 for taxis and motorcycles, and 2024/25 for vans, trucks and wheelchair accessible vehicles.

Plug-in Grants are just one way in which Government supports electric vehicle uptake. We have put in place favourable benefit in kind tax rates for zero emission vehicles out to 2025: company car tax was 1% in 2021/22 and 2% in 2022/23 through to 2024/25. Further, all zero emission cars are exempt from vehicle excise duty (VED) and zero emissions vans pay a nil rate of tax on the van benefit charge.

In addition, we announced in the Net Zero Strategy that we will introduce a zero-emission vehicle mandate, setting targets for a percentage of manufacturers' new car and van sales to be zero emission each year from 2024.

In March we published our ambitious electric vehicle infrastructure strategy, backed by £1.6 billion of funding, setting out our vision and commitments to make electric vehicle charging cheaper and more convenient than refueling at a petrol station, supporting drivers across the whole country to make the transition to a cleaner, greener vehicle.