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To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government if he will place in the Library research he has commissioned on the effect that turning off street lighting and relying on ambient lighting has on levels of crime.
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government if he will place in the Library research he has commissioned on the effect that turning off street lighting and relying on ambient lighting has on levels of crime.
I refer the hon. Member to my answer to the right hon. Member for Leeds Central (Hilary Benn), on 13 May 2014, Official Report, columns 535-36W.
Q6
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Andrew Selous (South West Bedfordshire) (Con):
Does the Prime Minister agree that the building of vital roads, such as the A5-M1 link or the Dunstable northern bypass, will create even more jobs, and that continued infrastructure investment like that is a key part of our long-term economic plan?
Q6
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Andrew Selous (South West Bedfordshire) (Con):
Does the Prime Minister agree that the building of vital roads, such as the A5-M1 link or the Dunstable northern bypass, will create even more jobs, and that continued infrastructure investment like that is a key part of our long-term economic plan?
I agree. I have spent some time in my hon. Friend’s constituency, stuck on the A5, and I know how much that remedial work is needed. It is vital for that part of our country. We are investing more in our railways than at any time since Victorian times and more in our roads than at any time since the 1970s. That is key to the success of our long-term economic plan.
I agree. I have spent some time in my hon. Friend’s constituency, stuck on the A5, and I know how much that remedial work is needed. It is vital for that part of our country. We are investing more in our railways than at any time since Victorian times and more in our roads than at any time since the 1970s. That is key to the success of our long-term economic plan.
I agree. I have spent some time in my hon. Friend’s constituency, stuck on the A5, and I know how much that remedial work is needed. It is vital for that part of our country. We are investing more in our railways than at any time since Victorian times and more in our roads than at any time since the 1970s. That is key to the success of our long-term economic plan.
Q6
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Andrew Selous (South West Bedfordshire) (Con):
Does the Prime Minister agree that the building of vital roads, such as the A5-M1 link or the Dunstable northern bypass, will create even more jobs, and that continued infrastructure investment like that is a key part of our long-term economic plan?
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what research her Department has undertaken on the relationship between levels of street lighting and the incidence of (a) burglaries, (b) offences against the person and (c) other crimes.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what research her Department has undertaken on the relationship between levels of street lighting and the incidence of (a) burglaries, (b) offences against the person and (c) other crimes.
The Home Office has not undertaken any recent research into the relationship between levels of street lighting and the incidence of crimes.
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport how much has been invested in road infrastructure in (a) Portsmouth South constituency and (b) Hampshire in each of the last four years.
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport how much has been invested in road infrastructure in (a) Portsmouth South constituency and (b) Hampshire in each of the last four years.
The Department for Transport is responsible for the strategic road network which is managed by the Highways Agency on behalf of the Secretary of State for Transport. The remaining roads are the responsibility of local highway authorities under the Highways Act 1980.
Highways Agency spending on improving road infrastructure (including smaller schemes and technology improvements) on the strategic road over the last four financial years in Hampshire is as follows:
| Financial
year | Funding
(£
million) |
| 2010-11 | 49.415 |
| 2011-12 | 65.526 |
| 2012-13 | 51.296 |
| 2013-14 | 71.830 |
The strategic road network does not extend into Portsmouth South.
The Department for Transport also provides funding to local highway authorities through Integrated Transport and Highways Maintenance Block grants. This funding can be used to improve local roads that the authorities manage if they so wish. The following tables provide this information:
| Highways
Maintenance Block and top-up
funding | ||
| £
million | ||
| Portsmouth
city
council | Hampshire
county
council | |
| 2010-11 | 1.316 | 21.392 |
| March
2011—Pothole
funding | 0.259 | 6.016 |
| 2011-12 | 1.260 | 24.268 |
| 2012-13 | 1.099 | 23.230 |
| 2013-14 | 1.108 | 22.052 |
| 2013-14
top-up (as announced in December 2012 autumn
statement) | 0.201 | 3.990 |
| 2013-14—Flood
repairs | 0.147 | 11.509 |
The Department for Transport is also supporting the Portsmouth highways maintenance project and a street lighting project in Hampshire which are both being funded through the private finance initiative. The total Department for Transport funding being provided for the scheme over a 25-year period is as follows:
| Scheme | Total
cost (£
million) |
| Portsmouth
Highways Maintenance PFI
project | 253.775 |
| Hampshire
Street Lighting PFI
project | 234.328 |
| Integrated
Transport Block and top-up
funding | ||
| £
million | ||
| Portsmouth
city council | Hampshire
county
council | |
| 2010-11 | 2.067 | 10.017 |
| 2011-12 | 1.484 | 6.547 |
| 2011-12
top-up
funding | 0.247 | 1.091 |
| 2012-13 | 1.583 | 6.984 |
| 2013-14 | 1.583 | 6.984 |
Local authorities are also able to use revenue funding allocated by the Department for Communities and Local Government through the Revenue Support Grant for maintaining their local highways.
Neither capital nor revenue highways maintenance funding is ring-fenced and it is for local highway authorities to decide upon their spending priorities across the whole range of services they provide.
In addition, the Department for Transport also provides capital funding for local major schemes, costing over £5 million. The Department for Transport has agreed to provide a funding contribution to two schemes being promoted by Portsmouth city council.
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs if he will commission an inquiry into the extent of problems arising from the use of motorised vehicles on unmetalled roads.
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs if he will commission an inquiry into the extent of problems arising from the use of motorised vehicles on unmetalled roads.
In the Deregulation Bill Committee debate on 25 March, we announced that we propose to form a working group along the lines of the current rights of way Stakeholder Working Group. We will invite stakeholders with the relevant experience and expertise to join a group with an independent chair and secretariat, ensuring that the group contains a balance across the full range of interests.
Any proposals made by the group for changing the current framework for managing the recreational use of motor vehicles would be subject to a full public consultation.
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what research his Department has undertaken on the relationship between levels of street lighting and (a) road traffic accidents and (b) injuries to pedestrians.
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what research his Department has undertaken on the relationship between levels of street lighting and (a) road traffic accidents and (b) injuries to pedestrians.
The Highways Agency is responsible for lighting on the strategic road network and local authorities for street lighting in their areas. It is for the authorities themselves to decide the level of service they wish their street lighting network to deliver.
No recent research has been undertaken by the Department for Transport on the relationship between levels of street lighting and (a) road traffic accidents
and (b) injuries to pedestrians. The Department does, however, collect accident data and this will include factors including whether or not the area was in darkness or lit.
In 2006 investigations were carried out by the Highways Agency which concluded road lighting reduced the number of night-time personal accident injuries on the strategic road network by 10% on motorways and dual carriageways, and 12% on single carriageway roads. The Highways Agency has not conducted any specific research on the impact of road lighting on accidents involving pedestrians due to their low numbers on the strategic road network.
Where the Highways Agency has undertaken the switching off of lights at midnight at certain site locations, these were subject to a detailed safety assessment. By selecting sites with a good safety record and where night-time traffic flows are low, the Highways Agency is confident there will be no adverse impact on road safety.
This Government is providing over £4.5 billion from 2010 to 2015 to local highway authorities in England for highways maintenance, including street lighting. If a local highway authority is considering upgrading or improving their street lighting stock, the Department for Transport encourages them to consider the “Invest to Save” Guidance produced by the Association of Directors of Environment, Planning and Transport (ADEPT) which is available from the Institution of Lighting Professionals.
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what assessment his Department has made of the effectiveness of the Highways Agency in maintaining roads in (a) Huddersfield, (b) Kirklees and (c) Yorkshire; and if he will make a statement.
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what assessment his Department has made of the effectiveness of the Highways Agency in maintaining roads in (a) Huddersfield, (b) Kirklees and (c) Yorkshire; and if he will make a statement.
The Highways Agency Business Plan sets out the strategic objectives and the in-year targets to be achieved. It includes a target covering road surface condition. Each Highways Agency region contributes to those targets, including Yorkshire and the North East. The agency's performance against the targets for the financial year 2013-14 is due to be published in its annual report by summer 2014.
The agency is unable to identify separately the contribution to business plan targets by individual constituency or local authority area.
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport how much central Government has spent on road infrastructure in (a) Huddersfield, (b) Kirklees and (c) Yorkshire in each of the last three years.
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport how much central Government has spent on road infrastructure in (a) Huddersfield, (b) Kirklees and (c) Yorkshire in each of the last three years.
The Department for Transport is responsible for the strategic road network which is managed by the Highways Agency on behalf of the Secretary of State for Transport, my right hon. Friend the Member for Derbyshire Dales (Mr McLoughlin). The remaining roads are the responsibility of local highway authorities under the Highways Act 1980.
Highways Agency spending on improving road infrastructure (including smaller schemes and technology improvements) on the strategic road network in the Yorkshire and Humber area in the last three financial years is shown in the following table.
| Financial
year | Funding
for Yorkshire and Humber area (£
million) |
| 2011-12 | 72.413 |
| 2012-13 | 66.658 |
| 2013-14 | 81.982 |
The Department for Transport also provides funding to local highway authorities through integrated transport and highways maintenance block grants. This funding can be used to improve local roads that they manage, if they so wish. The following table provides this information.
| Highways
maintenance
block | |||
| £
million | |||
| Kirklees | West
Yorkshire | Yorkshire
and
Humberside | |
| March
2011
pothole | 1.304 | 15.776 | 20.900 |
| 2011-12
block | 0 | 27.173 | 87.562 |
| 2012-13
block | 0 | 26.185 | 84.412 |
| 2013-14
block | 0 | 25.511 | 80.158 |
| 2013-14
additional
block | 1.019 | 14.620 | 13.581 |
| 2013-14
flood
recovery | 0.606 | 12.999 | 10.356 |
| 2014-15
block | 0 | 23.766 | 75.488 |
| 2014-15
additional
block | 0.548 | 12.446 | 7.268 |
| 1
Made up of the individual payments to Bradford, Calderdale, Kirklees,
Leeds and
Wakefield. |
| Integrated
transport
block | |||
| £
million | |||
| Kirklees | West
Yorkshire | Yorkshire
and
Humberside | |
| 2011-12
block | 0 | 121.128 | 147.760 |
| 2012-13
block | 0 | 19.318 | 43.666 |
| 2013-14
block | 0 | 19.318 | 43.666 |
| 2014-15
block | 0 | 27.165 | 61.403 |
| 1
Includes top up announced in 2011 autumn
statement. |
In addition, the Department also provide capital funding for local major schemes, costing over £5 million. The figures for spend on local major road infrastructure in the last three years is shown in the following table.
| £
million | |||
| Area | 2011-12 | 2012-13 | 2013-14 |
| Huddersfield | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Kirklees | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Yorkshire | 7.2 | 25.6 | 26.8 |
Revenue funding for highway maintenance is provided through the Communities and Local Government revenue support grant (RSG). RSG is an un-hypothecated grant provided to local authorities to enable them to carry out their functions, and local authorities can choose to spend this on any services for which they have responsibility, as per local spending priorities.
My Lords, this is a slightly odd way of starting a debate, when the national policy statement is after all a government document and when the Minister has not had a chance to explain to the House what it is about—after which I could have said what I like and...
My Lords, this is a slightly odd way of starting a debate, when the national policy statement is after all a government document and when the Minister has not had a chance to explain to the House what it is about—after which I could have said what I like and...
My Lords, while we are debating the improvements to the national networks, I first ask whether we are really certain that we are maintaining properly the roads we already have. By maintaining, I mean structural maintenance on the secondary network and something rather better than the routine filing and refilling...
My Lords, while we are debating the improvements to the national networks, I first ask whether we are really certain that we are maintaining properly the roads we already have. By maintaining, I mean structural maintenance on the secondary network and something rather better than the routine filing and refilling...
My Lords, I wish to say a few words in the gap. I declare my interests as in the register.
Frankly, I thought this was a rather unimpressive document. I learnt the little bit I know about transport at the feet of the great Ernest Marples, who was arguably one of...
My Lords, I wish to say a few words in the gap. I declare my interests as in the register.
Frankly, I thought this was a rather unimpressive document. I learnt the little bit I know about transport at the feet of the great Ernest Marples, who was arguably one of...
My Lords, I thank the noble Lord, Lord Marlesford, for pointing out that the Department for Transport has wiped out Lowestoft. Looking at the map, I think that that extends also to part of Norfolk as Great Yarmouth seems to have suffered the same fate. I hope the department will...
My Lords, I thank the noble Lord, Lord Marlesford, for pointing out that the Department for Transport has wiped out Lowestoft. Looking at the map, I think that that extends also to part of Norfolk as Great Yarmouth seems to have suffered the same fate. I hope the department will...
My Lords, I very much welcome this debate on the Government’s draft national policy statement for national networks—the NPS. This House has a really important role in scrutinising the draft NPS. This debate will help the Government to prepare their final version so I am very appreciative of the comments...
My Lords, I very much welcome this debate on the Government’s draft national policy statement for national networks—the NPS. This House has a really important role in scrutinising the draft NPS. This debate will help the Government to prepare their final version so I am very appreciative of the comments...
I did not actually say it myself but said it was how it was being described by some, including in the debate today. I think that was fair comment. I did not actually make the statement myself.
I did not actually say it myself but said it was how it was being described by some, including in the debate today. I think that was fair comment. I did not actually make the statement myself.
I stand corrected. It was a fair comment, and was certainly mentioned today, so I will just take it up. I apologise for misattributing the statement. I assure the House that it is not the case. Government policy on roads is not that outdated approach of predicting and providing for...
I stand corrected. It was a fair comment, and was certainly mentioned today, so I will just take it up. I apologise for misattributing the statement. I assure the House that it is not the case. Government policy on roads is not that outdated approach of predicting and providing for...
I was not suggesting that the concessionary fare scheme should be abolished. The important thing is to ensure that the people who provide the bus services are adequately rewarded. There is scope here for considerable investigation; otherwise, this will be fought out in the courts at great expense and great...
I was not suggesting that the concessionary fare scheme should be abolished. The important thing is to ensure that the people who provide the bus services are adequately rewarded. There is scope here for considerable investigation; otherwise, this will be fought out in the courts at great expense and great...
That probably has scope for a debate on another day, rather than within the context of the NPS. I do not mean to be cruel. I think it is an important issue but not for today. I wanted to leave no doubt that we are not re-examining concessionary fares.
There has...
That probably has scope for a debate on another day, rather than within the context of the NPS. I do not mean to be cruel. I think it is an important issue but not for today. I wanted to leave no doubt that we are not re-examining concessionary fares.
There has...