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Department for Transport: Cost Effectiveness

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether she plans to (a) implement and (b) cancel efficiency savings budgeted for by the previous Government for (i) her Department and (ii) departmental arm's length bodies; and what plans she has for further

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Answering body
Department for Transport
Tabled
26 Jul 2024
Target answer date
30 Jul 2024
Answer
5 Aug 2024 · 10 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 26 Jul 2024

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether she plans to (a) implement and (b) cancel efficiency savings budgeted for by the previous Government for (i) her Department and (ii) departmental arm's length bodies; and what plans she has for further

  2. 30 Jul 2024

    Target answer date

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  3. 5 Aug 2024

    Answer published

    The Chancellor has recently set out plans for departmental efficiencies such as taking actions to stop all non-essential government consultancy spend in 2024-25 and halve government spending on consultancy in future years, reducing communications and mark...

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Road Traffic Control: Kent

30 Jul 2024 · 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.

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Road Traffic Control: Kent

30 Jul 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if she will take steps to implement an alternative to Operation Brock in summer 2024.

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Roads: Kent

30 Jul 2024 · 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.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Roads: Kent

30 Jul 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether her Department will continue to fund improvements to (a) Brenley Corner and (b) Bluebell Hill.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Roads: Kent

30 Jul 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether she plans to provide additional funding to fill in potholes in Kent.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Automatic Number Plate Recognition: Lambeth and Southwark

30 Jul 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment she has made of the effectiveness of Automatic Number Plate Recognition car pilots in the London Borough of (a) Lambeth and (b) Southwark.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Clean Air Zones

30 Jul 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether she has plans to increase the number of clean air zones.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Speed Limits

30 Jul 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether she has plans to increase the number of roads with 20 mph speed limits.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Low Traffic Neighbourhoods

30 Jul 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether she has plans to increase the number of low traffic neighbourhoods.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Tolls

30 Jul 2024 · 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 mile road charges.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Tolls

30 Jul 2024 · 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.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Tolls: Research

12 Sept 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the answer of 3 September 2024 to Question 2445 on Tolls, if she will commission research on pay per mile charge schemes.