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registered interest
date	24/11/2014
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Driving: Diabetes
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 to help prevent drivers with type 2 diabetes losing their licence as a result of hypoglycaemia.
tabling member constituency	West Lancashire
tabling member printed	Rosie Cooper
uin	215646
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/11/2014 answer text <p>The Department’s key responsibility is to maintain road safety for all road users. Those who are not medically fit to drive should not be issued with a driving licence.</p><p> </p><p>The Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA) provide information to drivers with diabetes, including the symptoms of hypoglycaemia. The DVLA has also worked with organisations representing people with diabetes to provide clear information about the standards for driving.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 27/11/2014 11:31:30 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
tabling member	1538 label Biography information for Rosie Cooper

164426

registered interest
date	24/11/2014
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Electronic Government
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 ensure its services are available online; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Brighton, Kemptown
tabling member printed	Simon Kirby
uin	215670
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/12/2014 answer text <p>The Department for Transport (DfT) provides 73 online transactions, including services from the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency, Highways Agency, the Maritime Accident Investigation Branch and Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency. DfT is transitioning these digital transactions to conform to the Digital by Default Service Standard. In addition to Electronic Vehicle Licensing, the Department has three out of the 25 Digital Exemplars, including View Driving Record, which is Live, and Personalised Registrations and Vehicle Management, which are usable by the public and on track to achieve Live status by April 2015.</p><p> </p><p>Assisted Digital support is in place for each of the services. DfT is committed to continuing to provide multiple channels for accessing its services whilst recognising the savings to the taxpayer that can be realised by encouraging a channel shift to digital wherever and whenever possible, by making its digital services as easy to use as possible in conformance with the Digital by Default Standard.</p><p> </p><p>Our digital team are tasked with improving digital awareness within the Department and ensuring that new developments are delivered in a digital way, whenever possible. They work closely with colleagues in the Cabinet Office and Government Digital Service to promote this approach and put the end user's needs at the heart of all our development, making government services as easy to access and user friendly as possible.</p><p> </p><p>The Department published its Digital Strategy in 2012, which sets out our commitment to raising the bar for our existing digital services, bringing more services online, tackling barriers to entry and helping those not able to use digital to ensure no one is left behind.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 01/12/2014 12:00:25 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
tabling member	3929 label Biography information for Simon Kirby

164427

registered interest
date	24/11/2014
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	East West Rail Line
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what route options have been considered for the new railway between Bedford and Cambridge.
tabling member constituency	North East Bedfordshire
tabling member printed	Alistair Burt
uin	215633
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/11/2014 answer text <p>Twenty route corridors have been identified, each of which could potentially provide a route between the existing Oxford - Bedford railway and Cambridge. The East West Rail Consortium of local authorities and Network Rail have evaluated these against agreed criteria and reduced them to seven corridors for further evaluation.</p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 27/11/2014 11:54:15 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
tabling member	1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt

164432

registered interest
date	24/11/2014
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Motor Vehicles: Testing
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many vehicles have failed MOT tests because of the removal of diesel particulate filters in each of the last three years.
tabling member constituency	Oxford East
tabling member printed	Mr Andrew Smith
uin	215675
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/11/2014 answer text <p>The requirement to inspect diesel particulate filters as part of the MOT test was introduced on 19 February 2014; no information is available from before this date. Between 19 February 2014 and 17 October 2014, 347 vehicles with diesel engines failed the MOT test due to a missing diesel particulate filter.</p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 27/11/2014 11:27:02 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
tabling member	95 label Biography information for Mr Andrew Smith