Department for Transport

Reaction To One Of the Biggest Spending Projects In Decades

PA | Posted 10.01.2012 | UK Politics

Train companies welcomed news that the Government is to go ahead with the HS2 high-speed rail project but a taxpayers' group described the scheme as a...

High Speed Rail Decision Expected, But Have Ministers Dithered?

PA | Posted 10.03.2012 | UK Politics

Ministers have been "dithering" over the the HS2 high-speed rail project, the former transport secretary who first announced the scheme said on Monday...

Drug Driving Could Be Made Illegal

PA | Posted 04.03.2012 | UK Politics

The government is setting up an expert panel to consider the technical aspects of introducing a new offence of driving with an illegal drug in your bo...

MP Sacked Over Nazi Stag Party

PA | Posted 18.12.2011 | UK Politics

A Tory MP who attended a stag party where guests dressed as Nazis has been sacked as a Commons aide for "offensive" behaviour and placed under investi...

Driving Us Into Recession: The Price Of Fuel Tax

Huffington Post UK | Dina Rickman | Posted 16.12.2011 | UK Politics

The number of cars on the road has suffered its steepest decline since records began, with many blaming the increasing cost of petrol. Traffic volu...

Government Rejects Proposals To Ban Young Drivers From Driving At Night

The Huffington Post UK | Posted 23.11.2011 | UK

Young drivers should be banned from driving late at night to cut the number of accidents, the Association of British Insurers have suggested. Speak...

Is HS2 the Coalition's Next U-Turn?

Jerry Marshall | Posted 12.12.2011 | UK Politics
Jerry Marshall

When it comes to managing the public finances, one would think that avoiding making commitments to spend £32 billion on a capital project with dubious and unproven economic and social benefits would rank quite highly in the current climate.

Bombardier, Strategy & the Missing Big Picture

Jim Cowan | Posted 01.11.2011 | UK Politics
Jim Cowan

The recent furore surrounding the awarding of the Thameslink contract to Siemens ahead of Bombardier and its resultant negative impact on the East Mid...

Report: East Coast Rail Deal Cost Taxpayer Millions

PA | Posted 07.09.2011 | UK

PRESS ASSOCIATION -- Whitehall created a "moral hazard" in its handling of the termination of National Express's East Coast rail franchise, a report b...