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1490504

registered interest
date	19/07/2022
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Electric Vehicles: Charging Points
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what discussions he has held with the Department for Infrastructure in Northern Ireland on taking steps to increase the installation of charging points to support drivers switching to electric vehicles.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	39851
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/07/2022 answer text <p>Government works closely with the devolved administrations on supporting the rollout of electric vehicle (EV) charging infrastructure across the whole of the UK. UK government officials are currently working with Northern Irish counterparts on a bid into the On-street Residential Charging Scheme. In addition, £3.27m from the Levelling Up Fund will expand and enhance the EV charging network in the country.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Copeland answering member printed Trudy Harrison question first answered 25/07/2022 09:04:58 answering member 4593 label Biography information for Trudy Harrison
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

1489177

registered interest
date	14/07/2022
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Cycling and Walking: Schools
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will take steps with the Secretary of State for Education to (a) promote walking and cycling to school and (b) develop a reward scheme for children who participate.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	36766
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/07/2022 answer text <p>Officials from this Department have regular discussions with their colleagues from the Department for Education on how best to enable more walking, wheeling and cycling to school. The Government has a statutory objective, recently confirmed in the second statutory Cycling and Walking Investment Strategy published on 6 July, to increase to 55% by 2025 the percentage of children aged 5-10 who usually walk to school.</p><p> </p><p>The Government has pledged to invest £2 billion in active travel over the current Parliament, and this is allowing many local authorities to invest in better and safer infrastructure, such as school streets, to enable more walking and cycling to school. The Department is also providing £2 million of funding this financial year for a Walk To School programme delivered by the charity Living Streets. The programme includes incentives such as badges to encourage more children to walk to school.</p><p> </p><p>The Government is providing a record £20 million this financial year to support cycle training for children through the Bikeability programme. This should give many more children the confidence to cycle safely to school as well as for other journeys.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Copeland answering member printed Trudy Harrison question first answered 20/07/2022 14:31:05 answering member 4593 label Biography information for Trudy Harrison
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

1486445

registered interest
date	05/07/2022
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Local Government: Motor Vehicles
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of introducing a part-funded scheme that allows local authority refuse vehicles that are near end-of-life to be replaced with zero emission vehicles.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	31114
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/07/2022 answer text <p>Government welcomes innovative retrofit technology for converting internal combustion engine vehicles to zero emission. This will be an important element in reducing road transport emissions, helping to bridge the gap in the journey to net zero. Government has invested over £80 million in retrofitting vehicles (mainly buses) with low- and zero-emission technology since 2013.</p><p>Additionally, government has supported the accreditation of vehicle retrofit technologies under the Clean Vehicle Retrofit Accreditation Scheme, looking particularly to bring solutions for different vehicle types to the market.</p> answering member constituency Copeland answering member printed Trudy Harrison question first answered 12/07/2022 15:17:26 answering member 4593 label Biography information for Trudy Harrison
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

1471620

registered interest
date	20/06/2022
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Electric Scooters: Roads
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will provide a summary of current legislation relating to the use of e-scooters on public highways in the UK.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	21181
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/06/2022 answer text <p>As motor vehicles having fewer than 4 wheels and weighing less than 410 kg unladen, e-scooters are classed as motorcycles as defined in Section 185 of the Road Traffic Act 1988 and, because of their low speed, within the subclass of moped. This means that e-scooters have to abide by the same road traffic legislation as mopeds and motorcycles.</p><p> </p><p>The Electric Scooter Trials and Traffic Signs (Coronavirus) Regulations and General Directions 2020 (SI 2020/663) ​were introduced to allow the ​e-scooter trials to take place. The regulations remove or relax requirements for ​rental e-scooters being used in a ​permitted trial area, in a way which is proportionate to the vehicle type, to enable trials to take place on public roads.</p><p> </p><p>The Traffic Signs (Coronavirus) (Amendment) (England) Regulations 2021 (SI 2021/75) further refined the application of the TSRGD to e-scooters being used in a trial to clarify where e-scooters are permitted for use within defined trial areas.</p> answering member constituency Copeland answering member printed Trudy Harrison question first answered 23/06/2022 13:10:12 answering member 4593 label Biography information for Trudy Harrison
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

1468024

registered interest
date	07/06/2022
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Transport: Exhaust Emissions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps he is taking to reduce emissions from transport across the UK.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	13718
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/06/2022 answer text <p>Last year the department published its Transport Decarbonisation Plan that provides a credible, deliverable pathway to reduce emissions and deliver transport’s contribution to carbon budgets and net zero.</p> answering member constituency Copeland answering member printed Trudy Harrison question first answered 15/06/2022 09:11:43 answering member 4593 label Biography information for Trudy Harrison
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

1465674

registered interest
date	25/05/2022
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Electric Scooters
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what recent estimate he has made of the number of electric scooters being used across the UK.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	9008
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/06/2022 answer text <p>According to monitoring data from the Department’s trials scheme, as of April 2022 there were over 1.5 million active users (defined as someone who used a rental e-scooter in the last month), with over 19 million trips made on rental e-scooters in England since the trials started in July 2020.</p><p>Based on findings from the Department’s Transport and Technology Tracker, we estimate that as of June 2021 roughly 750,000 individuals aged 16+ owned a private e-scooter in England – we do not have data for the whole of the UK.</p> answering member constituency Copeland answering member printed Trudy Harrison question first answered 06/06/2022 13:52:47 answering member 4593 label Biography information for Trudy Harrison
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

1465201

registered interest
date	24/05/2022
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Bus Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps he is taking with local transport authorities to ensure the provision of a sheltered area at each bus stop in the UK.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	7979
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/05/2022 answer text <p>Local authorities in England are responsible for the bus stops and shelters in their area.</p><p> </p><p>The Government’s National Bus Strategy for England asked Local Transport Authorities to consider the impact of roadside infrastructure on passenger safety, security and accessibility in their Bus Service Improvement Plans.</p><p> </p><p>These plans were subject to a detailed assessment and thirty-one counties, city regions and unitary authorities have subsequently been selected to receive a share of funding to level up their local bus services, drawing on the £1.2 billion announced at last year’s Spending Review, as part of the £3 billion we have promised for buses over this Parliament.</p><p> </p><p>In Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland transport policy is the responsibility of the devolved administrations and scrutiny the responsibility of the respective parliaments and assembly.</p> answering member constituency Copeland answering member printed Trudy Harrison question first answered 30/05/2022 10:35:02 answering member 4593 label Biography information for Trudy Harrison
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

1465209

registered interest
date	24/05/2022
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Cars: Safety
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether he is taking steps with car manufacturers to ensure that crash tests equally assess the impact of crashes on women as well as men.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	7987
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/05/2022 answer text <p>The majority of detailed technical requirements for vehicle construction are regulated at an international level through the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE). The Department for Transport is an active member and vehicle manufacturers also participate.</p><p> </p><p>The expert group with responsibility for crash safety has already agreed changes to the UNECE regulations on frontal impact protection to include the use of crash test dummies representative of a small female occupant. In due course, this should encourage the use of smart restraint systems capable of delivering more consistent injury outcomes, irrespective of gender. The same expert group continues to collate data to establish what more might be needed at a regulatory level.</p><p> </p><p>The Department for Transport also remains a member of the European New Car Assessment Programme (Euro NCAP), which provides objective information to motorists on the crash safety of cars. The rating programme also includes crash tests using dummies representative of female occupants.</p> answering member constituency Copeland answering member printed Trudy Harrison question first answered 31/05/2022 13:01:09 answering member 4593 label Biography information for Trudy Harrison
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

1464875

registered interest
date	23/05/2022
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Electric Vehicles: Charging Points
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps his Department is taking to encourage major retailers to provide vehicle charging points; and whether he has made an assessment of the potential merits of requiring stores over a certain size to include a number of charging points for electric vehicles.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	6772
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/05/2022 answer text <p>Government has committed £2.5 billion since 2020 to support the transition to zero emission vehicles, with funding to offset their higher upfront cost, and to accelerate the rollout of chargepoint infrastructure. Of the £2.5 billion of Government funding committed to the EV transition since 2020, over £1.6 billion will be used to support charging infrastructure.</p><p> </p><p>On 15 December 2021, Government laid regulations for England which require minimum charging infrastructure in new and majorly renovated non-residential buildings with car parks which have more than ten spaces, such as shops and workplaces. These measures will see charging infrastructure being installed in up to 2,600 car parks in England every year.</p><p> </p><p>In addition, the Future of Transport Regulatory Review, which closed on 22nd November, sought views on the government seeking powers to require a minimum level of EV charging infrastructure in existing non-residential car parks and new standalone plot car parks. The consultation is currently being analysed and the government will publish its response in summer 2022.</p> answering member constituency Copeland answering member printed Trudy Harrison question first answered 30/05/2022 11:15:11 answering member 4593 label Biography information for Trudy Harrison
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

1461630

registered interest
date	10/05/2022
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Kosovo: Driving Licences
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if his Department will bring forward proposals to enable Kosovan citizens to use Kosovo drivers licences in the UK.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	254
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/05/2022 answer text <p>Holders of driving licences issued in Kosovo who become resident in or are visiting Great Britain can drive cars and motorcycles for up to one year from the date they arrive. To continue driving after this period Kosovan drivers must apply for a provisional driving licence and pass both a theory and practical driving test.</p><p>The UK does exchange driving licences with certain countries but Kosovo is not currently a designated country. The Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA) has received a request from the Embassy of Kosovo to consider a possible reciprocal driving licence exchange agreement and will provide the necessary information to progress this.</p><p>Driver licensing is devolved in Northern Ireland. The DVLA will keep the Department for Infrastructure informed of progress with the exchange agreement.</p> answering member constituency Copeland answering member printed Trudy Harrison question first answered 16/05/2022 14:09:08 answering member 4593 label Biography information for Trudy Harrison
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon