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Parliamentary Debates (Hansard) Thursday Volume 586 23 October 2014 No. 48 HOUSE OF COMMONS OFFICIAL REPORT PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES (HANSARD) Thursday 23 October 2014 £5·00 © Parliamentary Copyright House of Commons 2014 This publication may be reproduced under the terms of the Open Parliament licence, which is published at www.parliament.uk/site-information/copyright/. 1021 23 OCTOBER 2014 1022 and I urge my right hon. Friend to continue with it. House of Commons However, there are even cheaper ways of reducing congestion, such as traffic light re-phasing and, as Thursday 23 October 2014 my right hon. Friend the Member for Mid Sussex (Sir Nicholas Soames) said, proper co-ordination of road works. Will the Minister also consider requiring The House met at half-past Nine o’clock local highway authorities to publish weekly information on delays caused by congestion in their areas in order to give them an incentive to do something about it and PRAYERS to give drivers the information they need to plan their journeys? [MR SPEAKER in the Chair] Mr Hayes: My hon. Friend will know that Staffordshire has been provided with local pinch point funding of £4.8 million to support three schemes: the Beacon business Oral Answers to Questions park growth point in Stafford, which was completed on 20 June 2014; the A50 to Alton growth corridor, which is due to be completed in March 2016; and the Gungate north-south link road in Tamworth, which is due for TRANSPORT completion in March 2015. His idea of weekly reports is innovative and interesting, and I am more than happy to take it back to the Department. Once again, he has The Secretary of State was asked— shown that he brings to this House fresh thinking that is most welcome. Road Congestion Mark Lazarowicz (Edinburgh North and Leith) (Lab/ 1. Sir Nicholas Soames (Mid Sussex) (Con): What Co-op): Last week we had an excellent debate in the steps he is taking to relieve congestion on roads. House on cycling. It was so good, in fact, that the right [905598] hon. Member for Mid Sussex (Sir Nicholas Soames) said he was going to take up cycling, which we look 6. Jeremy Lefroy (Stafford) (Con): What steps he is forward to seeing. One of the benefits of cycling is that taking to relieve congestion on roads. [905606] for every driver who moves on to a cycle, less road space is taken up. How much of the £100 million that the Minister has announced for new roads will benefit The Minister of State, Department for Transport (Mr John cycling? Hayes): The Government have an ambitious strategy for tackling congestion and improving performance on Mr Hayes: It is a hallmark of this Government that our roads, as I think the whole House would acknowledge. we have taken cycling as seriously as we have, and that is This autumn we will set out our plans for a road in no small measure due to the work of the Under-Secretary, investment strategy, with £24 billion to be spent on my hon. Friend the Member for Scarborough and Whitby strategic roads up to 2021. For local roads, £7.4 billion (Mr Goodwill). All new road schemes must take account will be spent in the next Parliament, and £1.5 billion of cycling provision, and, although I am never unnecessarily funding from the local growth fund will bring forward partisan in this Chamber, as you know, Mr Speaker, I vital schemes. am not sure that previous Governments could have claimed that. Sir Nicholas Soames: My right hon. Friend may well have an ambitious strategy, but it does not go as far as Richard Burden (Birmingham, Northfield) (Lab): I Mid Sussex. Is he aware that particularly in the towns of welcome the Minister to his role. Congestion is, as we Haywards Heath and East Grinstead there have been have heard, all too often made worse by the poor state frankly intolerable delays owing to works by the utilities? of local roads. The Local Government Association has I want him to take a much, much tougher line with the warned of a road maintenance “time bomb”. The Minister utilities on how they handle traffic management so that may think that everything is going swimmingly well, they cease destroying the trading opportunities of towns with funding competitions, which pre-date him, that that are trying to make much better of themselves. rob Peter to pay Paul, but when the Public Accounts Committee says that it is Mr Hayes: As my right hon. Friend knows, I was in “very frustrating that the Department for Transport still has not Sussex only last week looking at these very matters. got a grip on how it funds road maintenance”, There is no end to my strategic ambitions— geographically one might think that he would listen, so why will he not? or in any other way. He is absolutely right that we need to take a tough line in ensuring that schemes do not Mr Hayes: I always take that kind of analysis and have undesirable or unintended consequences. I will scrutiny seriously. This Government are going to resurface certainly look very closely at the circumstances he describes, 80% of roads, because we acknowledge the hon. and he can be absolutely certain of my toughness. Gentleman’s point about the effect of road condition on congestion. This Government is taking a more strategic Jeremy Lefroy: The pinch point fund is an excellent approach, putting its money where its mouth is and and cost-effective way of assisting with schemes such as listening to the kinds of arguments the hon. Gentleman the Blackheath lane roundabout in my constituency, has amplified. 1023 Oral Answers23 OCTOBER 2014 Oral Answers 1024 Provisional Licences: Motorbikes/Scooters came from his country. The ICAO has set up a taskforce to look at the provision of over-flights in conflict zones, 2. Mr Barry Sheerman (Huddersfield) (Lab/Co-op): and the UK is participating actively in that work. What assessment he has made of the merits of granting provisional licences for small motorbikes and scooters. Mr Gordon Marsden (Blackpool South) (Lab): May I [905599] associate myself with the Minister’s condolences to the families, not least our own UK citizens? After MH17 The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Transport was shot down, I wrote to the Minister in August to ask (Claire Perry): No formal assessment has been made of how the Government would ensure that all airlines had the merits of granting provisional driving licences for equal access to recommendations based on authoritative small motorbikes and scooters. The minimum age at intelligence about safety over specific conflict zones. I which a motorist can apply for a provisional licence to also asked him to reconsider his reserved powers so that ride mopeds is 16. From the age of 17, motorists can passengers, pilots and airline staff in the UK could have apply for a provisional licence to ride small motorcycles confidence in the process. His reply was that he was with an engine size of up to 125 cc. looking into it. After eight weeks in which conflicts in Iraq and Syria have intensified those concerns, what Mr Sheerman: I tabled that question because I nearly changes has he made? killed a young motorcyclist two weeks ago. He was a Domino’s Pizza delivery boy and it was obvious that he Mr Goodwill: I have already explained that work is was totally inexperienced and should not have been being undertaken at an international level. Indeed, the employed delivering around London. Motorcycle and Secretary of State has power to direct airlines not to fly scooter users account for 20% of fatalities on our roads, over particular locations and the independent Civil yet they represent only 1% of the traffic in our country. Aviation Authority can issue a notice to airmen—a Something significant is happening. Can we do something NOTAM—instructing pilots not to fly over those areas. about it? Ultimately, it is up to the airline and the captain to take the decision, based on the best available information they have. Claire Perry: May I commend the hon. Gentleman for his long-standing commitment to road safety? It Mr Speaker: We are pleased to see the hon. Member started many years ago and he has done an amazing for Gloucester (Richard Graham) sprinting into the job. He will be as pleased as I am that, overall, road Chamber. deaths this year are at their lowest level since 1926. Since the regime of testing and compulsory basic training was introduced in 1990, deaths and fatalities among Rail Passenger Journeys users of small and medium-sized motorbikes have fallen by up to 60%, so the regime is fit for purpose and we are 4. Richard Graham (Gloucester) (Con): What recent always looking to make our roads even safer. estimate he has made of the change in the number of rail passenger journeys in each of the last three years. Flight Paths [905601] The Secretary of State for Transport (Mr Patrick 3. Mr William Bain (Glasgow North East) (Lab): McLoughlin): I am proud that rail in this country is What recent discussions he has had with stakeholders doing extremely well. Privatisation has seen passenger in the aviation industry on the use of flight paths over numbers more than double to over 1.6 billion last year. conflict zones. [905600] Innovation in the private sector has led to more seats, faster journey times and brighter station environments, The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Transport which is why there have been an extra 233 million (Mr Robert Goodwill): The Department keeps in close journeys between 2011 and 2014, despite economic contact with UK carriers about the whole range of conditions.
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