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Written Answers — Department for Transport: Department for Transport: Innovation (21 Mar 2024)

Chi Onwurah: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps his Department is taking to encourage innovation in (a) the Maritime and Coastguard Agency, (b) the DVLA, (c) HS2 Ltd. and (d) National Highways.

Written Answers — Department for Transport: High Speed 2 Line (21 Mar 2024)

Jack Brereton: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many boreholes along the HS2 Phase 2 route have (a) been filled and (b) had land restored since the decision to cancel Phase 2; and when he expects the work of removing boreholes and compounds along the Phase 2 route be completed.

Transport: Bus Services: England (21 Mar 2024)

Guy Opperman: ...investment into buses. Since the pandemic, we have announced more than £4.5 billion of support for bus services in England outside London, including £1 billion recently reallocated from HS2 to improve services in the north and the midlands through Network North. Bus passenger journeys in England increased by 19% to 3.4 billion in the year ending March 2023, and we are seeing patronage...

Transport: Local Transport: West Midlands (21 Mar 2024)

Matt Western: ..., is very poor because the service is diesel-run. Other countries, such as India, have electrified their main networks. Will the Minister electrify the Chiltern route using the budget freed up from HS2?

Transport: Rail Reform Delays: Cost (21 Mar 2024)

Huw Merriman: ...largest public sector land deal in London, which will completely regenerate the area. It will deliver offices, jobs and homes, and will also provide the funding to deliver the station, not just for HS2 but for Network Rail. We are committed to ensuring that Network North delivers that station.

Transport: Rail Services (21 Mar 2024)

Lilian Greenwood: The leader of Nottinghamshire County Council, who has a nice side hustle as the hon. Member for Mansfield (Ben Bradley), once said: “The full delivery of HS2’s Eastern Leg is what the East Midlands needs to support and create highly skilled jobs, link communities to opportunities and decarbonise our transport network.” As he failed to persuade the Prime Minister, who cancelled that...

Transport: North Cotswold Line: Dualling (21 Mar 2024)

Harriett Baldwin: I thank the team of Ministers for the £209 million that has been allocated to Worcestershire County Council from HS2 money, to help with local transport improvements. Will the Minister endorse a project in which we work with Oxfordshire County Council to find ways to redouble sections of the Oxford to Worcester line? That will result in faster, more frequent and more reliable services on the...

Transport: Transport Connectivity: North of England Cities (21 Mar 2024)

Mark Harper: ...available this financial year, and again next financial year. We will set out the allocations in due course. That money is available only because we made the decision to cancel the second phase of HS2. Labour cannot give a straight answer on that question, and it has not committed to spending that £8.3 billion at all. Drivers know that they will only get that investment with a...

Transport: Topical Questions (21 Mar 2024)

Mark Harper: ...council traffic enforcement while speeding up traffic lights across the country. As I just said, that follows our record funding increase for improving our roads, with £8.3 billion of reallocated HS2 funding—something that Opposition Members have refused to support. There is nothing wrong with driving, and the plan for drivers, which was dismissed as nonsense by the shadow Secretary of...

Transport: Bus Services: England (21 Mar 2024)

Guy Opperman: ...investment into buses. Since the pandemic, we have announced more than £4.5 billion of support for bus services in England outside London, including £1 billion recently reallocated from HS2 to improve services in the north and the midlands through Network North. Bus passenger journeys in England increased by 19% to 3.4 billion in the year ending March 2023, and we are seeing patronage...

Transport: Local Transport: West Midlands (21 Mar 2024)

Matt Western: ..., is very poor because the service is diesel-run. Other countries, such as India, have electrified their main networks. Will the Minister electrify the Chiltern route using the budget freed up from HS2?

Transport: Rail Reform Delays: Cost (21 Mar 2024)

Huw Merriman: ...largest public sector land deal in London, which will completely regenerate the area. It will deliver offices, jobs and homes, and will also provide the funding to deliver the station, not just for HS2 but for Network Rail. We are committed to ensuring that Network North delivers that station.

Transport: Rail Services (21 Mar 2024)

Lilian Greenwood: The leader of Nottinghamshire County Council, who has a nice side hustle as the hon. Member for Mansfield (Ben Bradley), once said: “The full delivery of HS2’s Eastern Leg is what the East Midlands needs to support and create highly skilled jobs, link communities to opportunities and decarbonise our transport network.” As he failed to persuade the Prime Minister, who cancelled that...

Transport: North Cotswold Line: Dualling (21 Mar 2024)

Harriett Baldwin: I thank the team of Ministers for the £209 million that has been allocated to Worcestershire County Council from HS2 money, to help with local transport improvements. Will the Minister endorse a project in which we work with Oxfordshire County Council to find ways to redouble sections of the Oxford to Worcester line? That will result in faster, more frequent and more reliable services on the...

Transport: Transport Connectivity: North of England Cities (21 Mar 2024)

Mark Harper: ...available this financial year, and again next financial year. We will set out the allocations in due course. That money is available only because we made the decision to cancel the second phase of HS2. Labour cannot give a straight answer on that question, and it has not committed to spending that £8.3 billion at all. Drivers know that they will only get that investment with a...

Transport: Topical Questions (21 Mar 2024)

Mark Harper: ...council traffic enforcement while speeding up traffic lights across the country. As I just said, that follows our record funding increase for improving our roads, with £8.3 billion of reallocated HS2 funding—something that Opposition Members have refused to support. There is nothing wrong with driving, and the plan for drivers, which was dismissed as nonsense by the shadow Secretary of...

7. Plaid Cymru Debate: Barnett formula (20 Mar 2024)

Rhun ap Iorwerth: ...buildings that were built way before devolution. And the most prominent and most insulting example of them all: the withholding of almost £4 billion in consequential funding for Wales from the HS2 project, despite the fact that there isn't and that there will never be an inch of track laid here in Wales. This general theme of injustice that flows through all of those cases, and more, all...

Written Answers — Department for Transport: High Speed 2 Line: Staffordshire (20 Mar 2024)

Jack Brereton: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will publish the value engineering report for the design of the proposed Handsacre Junction of HS2 from 2018.

Written Answers — Department for Transport: High Speed 2 Line: Birmingham (19 Mar 2024)

Stephen Morgan: ...Question 15333 on High Speed 2 Line, what assumptions were made on the potential services that could run north of Birmingham to provide the evidential basis for the statement that the new plan for HS2 will result in nearly doubling capacity up to 250,000 seats per day across the primary long-distance operator on the West Coast Main Line and Phase 1.

Public Procurement (British Goods and Services) Bill (15 Mar 2024)

Sarah Champion: ...procured by government in the last financial year, 2022-23, only £365 million-worth was UK-produced. Furthermore, the British Constructional Steelwork Association analysis of steel used in the HS2 project found that only 58% of steel contracts were awarded to British suppliers, despite the British steel industry having the capacity to have carried out 100% of the work. I welcome the...


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