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1546804

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date	30/11/2022
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Gender Based Violence: Transport
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to the Transport Champions for Tackling Violence Against Women and Girls strategy published in March 2022, what discussions he has had with Cabinet colleagues on the recommendations of that report.
tabling member constituency	Glasgow East
tabling member printed	David Linden
uin	99950
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/12/2022 answer text <p>The Department for Transport is part of the cross-government Violence Against Women and Girls Strategy, and is working with the Home Office and Department for Education to deliver the ambitions of the recommendations from our Transport Champions for Tackling Violence Against Women and Girls.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 08/12/2022 16:24:02 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	4640 label Biography information for David Linden

1546813

registered interest
date	30/11/2022
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Public Transport: Females
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether his Department has undertaken work to develop a national Gender Mainstreaming Toolkit following the publication of recommendations from the Transport Champions for Tackling Violence Against Women and Girls in March 2022; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Glasgow East
tabling member printed	David Linden
uin	99959
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/12/2022 answer text <p>The Government is committed to ensuring women and girls are safe on the transport network. We welcome the ambition of the recommendations from the Transport Champions for Tackling Violence Against Women and Girls and agree that the principle of safe access to transport networks must be embedded in the core objectives of transport policy and its implementation.</p><p> </p><p>Following the Transport Champions' recommendation on national transport planning guidance, the Department for Transport has reviewed existing gender in transport toolkits and is using these to inform improvements to guidance, including the forthcoming Local Transport Plan guidance.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 08/12/2022 16:32:00 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	4640 label Biography information for David Linden

1546814

registered interest
date	30/11/2022
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Transport: Gender Based Violence
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether his Department has taken steps to introduce mandatory consultation by local authorities on transport projects with women and girls from various cultures, backgrounds and ages following the publication of recommendations from the Transport Champions for Tackling Violence Against Women and Girls in March 2022; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Glasgow East
tabling member printed	David Linden
uin	99960
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/12/2022 answer text <p>We welcome the ambition of the recommendations from the Transport Champions for Tackling Violence Against Women and Girls. In line with their recommendation on national transport planning guidance, the Department for Transport is updating guidance on consultation for local transport schemes as part of its forthcoming Local Transport Plan guidance.</p><p> </p><p>In addition, as part of their Public Sector Equality Duty, when designing transport projects local authorities must consider the needs of people in relation to characteristics protected by the Equality Act 2010, including sex, age and race.</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 08/12/2022 16:40:39 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	4640 label Biography information for David Linden

1344823

registered interest
date	07/07/2021
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Large Goods Vehicle Drivers: Driving Tests
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to his comments of 7 July 2021 on HGV driver shortages, if he will (a) make a statement on the steps his Department has taken to increase the number of driving tests available, (b) publish figures on the number of HGV driving tests carried out each year since 2016 and (c) publish the geographical distribution of those additional HGV driving tests by region.
tabling member constituency	Glasgow East
tabling member printed	David Linden
uin	29131
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/07/2021 answer text <p>The Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA) is doing it all it can to increase the number of vocational tests available and has put in place a number of measures to do this. These include offering overtime and annual leave buy back to examiners, asking all those qualified to conduct tests, but who do not do so as part of their current day job, to return to conducting tests, and conducting out of hours testing on public holidays and weekends. This has increased the overall number of vocational test slots made available to around 3,000 per week.</p><p>The DVSA will be launching a recruitment campaign to increase the number of HGV examiners. It will also continue its training programme to enable more examiners to conduct vocational tests.</p><p>The DVSA publish data for the number of large goods vehicle (LGV) practical driving tests and pass rates for each driving test centre on Gov.uk. DVSA continues to work with the driver training industry to understand demand, respond to geographical peaks.</p><p>Additional tests are added to each test centre as the resource becomes available and can vary on a daily basis. The number of tests conducted are published as Official Statistics.</p> answering member constituency Redditch answering member printed Rachel Maclean question first answered 12/07/2021 13:21:40 answering member 4668 label Biography information for Rachel Maclean
tabling member	4640 label Biography information for David Linden

1257265

registered interest
date	01/12/2020
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Members: Correspondence
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, when he plans to respond to the letter of 15 June 2020, reference DL6304, from the hon Member for Glasgow East.
tabling member constituency	Glasgow East
tabling member printed	David Linden
uin	123683
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/12/2020 answer text <p>The Department has no record of the correspondence being received. If copy can be provided a response will be prepared as a priority.</p> answering member constituency Daventry answering member printed Chris Heaton-Harris question first answered 07/12/2020 14:45:58 answering member 3977 label Biography information for Chris Heaton-Harris
tabling member	4640 label Biography information for David Linden