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HANSARDAir Passenger Rights and Air Travel Organisers’ Licensing (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018My Lords, I thank all noble Lords for their consideration of these draft regulations. I am grateful for the scrutiny provided by noble Lords. These are important pieces of…12 Feb 2019HANSARDAir Passenger Rights and Air Travel Organisers’ Licensing (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018I entirely understand my noble friend’s point of view. Of course it is important that we understand the full costs of this. The CAA is taking on a number of new responsibilities…12 Feb 2019HANSARDAir Passenger Rights and Air Travel Organisers’ Licensing (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018I am afraid I will have to come back to the noble Lord on the exact number of staff who have been taken on. As he will understand, this is a moving feast, and the CAA is taking on…12 Feb 2019HANSARDAir Passenger Rights and Air Travel Organisers’ Licensing (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018Yes, that is what I am saying. As I said, at the moment there are only 13 EEA-established businesses currently selling to the UK that would be affected by the requirement, and the…12 Feb 2019HANSARDAir Passenger Rights and Air Travel Organisers’ Licensing (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018I hope I can answer the noble Lord’s question. Those EU and EEA companies which sell package holidays in the UK will need to be covered by the ATOL scheme. They will need to apply…12 Feb 2019HANSARDAir Passenger Rights and Air Travel Organisers’ Licensing (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018I will come on to CAA resourcing at a later stage in this speech, if the noble Lord will give me a minute. Finally, this instrument ensures that the CAA is fully and effectively…12 Feb 2019HANSARDAir Passenger Rights and Air Travel Organisers’ Licensing (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018If the noble Lord will wait, I will come on to CAA resourcing. Obviously, we work very closely with the CAA to ensure that it is sufficiently resourced.12 Feb 2019HANSARDAir Passenger Rights and Air Travel Organisers’ Licensing (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018My Lords, these regulations will be made using powers in the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018 and will be needed if the UK leaves the European Union without a deal. This draft…12 Feb 2019HANSARDAir Passenger Rights and Air Travel Organisers’ Licensing (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018That the draft Regulations laid before the House on 28 November 2018 be approved.12 Feb 2019HANSARDMotor Vehicles (Wearing of Seatbelts) (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018My Lords, these draft regulations are made under the powers conferred by the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018 and will be needed if the UK leaves the European Union without a…12 Feb 2019HANSARDParking on PavementsMy Lords, this is something that we are looking at. With the advent of new technology we are seeing new vehicles on the pavement. That will be one of our considerations when we…11 Feb 2019HANSARDParking on PavementsMy Lords, I know that street furniture, including lamp-posts, also inhibits people in confidently navigating their way around the streets. Pavement parking can cause damage to…11 Feb 2019HANSARDSeaborne FreightMy Lords, with the leave of the House, I will repeat in the form of a Statement the Answer given by my right honourable friend the Secretary of State for Transport to an Urgent…11 Feb 2019HANSARDParking on PavementsMy Lords, we have heard a lot of concern from interested groups, the general public, those with disabilities, the elderly and, of course, mothers with pushchairs about the…11 Feb 2019HANSARDParking on PavementsMy Lords, a recent survey by the RNIB of more than 500 blind and partially sighted people found that 95% of them had collided with a street obstacle in the past three months. A…11 Feb 2019HANSARDParking on PavementsMy Lords, in Greater London there is already a general ban on pavement parking. Across the rest of England, local authorities can implement local bans using traffic regulation…11 Feb 2019HANSARDSeaborne FreightMy Lords, we went ahead with the contract with Seaborne on the understanding that it was a start-up company and did not currently provide the service. As I explained, this was a…11 Feb 2019HANSARDSeaborne FreightMy Lords, as I said, the DfT is not party to the dredging work. I am not able to comment on the value of contracts held by entities other than my department. Dredging of the port…11 Feb 2019HANSARDSeaborne FreightMy Lords, I take this opportunity to remind the House that no taxpayer money has been transferred to the company and the Government stand by their robust due diligence carried out…11 Feb 2019HANSARDSeaborne FreightI thank my noble friend for those comments. The contract with Seaborne was specifically designed in recognition of the risk posed by contracting with a new operator and it…11 Feb 2019