Department for Transport

written question – answered on 3 September 2024.

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  • Shipping: Carbon Emissions

    To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if she will make an assessment of the potential impact of lower carbon-emitting fuels on the rate of decarbonisation of the maritime sector.

  • Cars: Hire Services

    To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether her (a) Department and (b) agencies take steps to (i) monitor and (ii) prevent the use of vehicles by car rental operators registered outside...

  • Railway Stations: Access

    To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether she plans to allocate further funding through the Access for All programme.

  • Road Traffic Control: Kent

    To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if she will take steps to manage HGV traffic to Dover in addition to the use of (a) Operation Brock and (b) Brenley Corner.

  • Roads: Kent

    To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how much funding her Department plans to provide for road improvements at (a) Blue Bell Hill, (b) Brenley Corner and (c) other roads in Kent.

  • Clean Air Zones

    To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether she has plans to increase the number of clean air zones.

  • Roads: Speed Limits

    To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether she has plans to increase the number of roads with 20 mph speed limits.

  • Tolls

    To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether she plans to (a) consider further introductions of and (b) increase the use of (i) congestion, (ii) ultra low emission zone and (iii) pay per...

  • Tolls

    To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what research her Department has (a) undertaken and (b) commissioned into the potential impacts of (i) pay per mile road charging and (ii) similar schemes.

  • Road Works: Public Consultation

    To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether her Department plans to respond to the closed consultation entitled Street works: fines and lane rental surplus funds.

  • Parking: Pedestrian Areas

    To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether her Department plans to respond to the consultation entitled Pavement parking: options for change, published on 29 June 2023.

  • Motorways

    To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether it is her policy to build new smart motorways.

  • Low Traffic Neighbourhoods

    To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what plans she has for (a) retaining and (b) amending her Department's statutory guidance entitled Implementing low traffic neighbourhoods, which was...

  • Roads: Repairs and Maintenance

    To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if she will use money from the cancellation of the A27 to repair potholes.

  • Road Works

    To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if she will make an estimate of the proportion of the road network that was restricted due to (a) roadworks and (b) closures on 22 July 2024.

  • Road Works: Costs

    To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what the annual cost is of (a) overrunning and (b) delayed road maintenance works.

  • Road Works: Cost Effectiveness

    To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps she is taking to ensure that (a) roadworks and (b) road maintenance are carried out in the most (i) efficient and (ii) cost-effective way.

  • Railways: North of England

    To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what progress her Department has made on (a) strategic rail projects in the north of England and (b) Northern Powerhouse Rail.

  • Roads: Safety

    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.

  • A180

    To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what recent assessment she has made of the (a) roadway noise and (b) other environmental impacts of the A180.

  • A12 and A14: Suffolk

    To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether she plans to take steps to help tackle congestion at Copdock Junction of the A14 and A12 in Suffolk.

  • Roads: Construction

    To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what estimate her Department has made of the potential (a) cost of and (b) return per pound spent on each scheme in the (i) Strategic Road Network and...

  • Restoring Your Railways Fund: Somerset

    To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps she plans to take to improve rail connections in Somerton and Langport in the context of the cancellation of the Restoring...

  • Rapid Transit Systems

    To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to the tram train pilot between Sheffield and Rotherham, how many similar schemes (a) have been developed, (b) are under construction...