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1737420

registered interest
date	28/10/2024
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Driving Tests: Waiting Lists
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what the average waiting time was per driving test centre in (a) the UK and (b) Great Yarmouth constituency.
tabling member constituency	Great Yarmouth
tabling member printed	Rupert Lowe
uin	11413
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/10/2024 answer text <p>The average waiting time data per driving test centre (DTC) in the UK for September 2024 is contained within the attached document. The table below shows the national average waiting time, and those DTCs that serve the Great Yarmouth constituency.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Driving test centre</p></td><td><p>Average Waiting time (September 2024)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Lowestoft (Mobbs Way)</p></td><td><p>9</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Norwich (Peachman Way)</p></td><td><p>22.2</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Norwich (Jupiter Road)</p></td><td><p>9.4</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>National</p></td><td><p>19</p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency Nottingham South answering member printed Lilian Greenwood question first answered 30/10/2024 17:22:02 answering member 4029 label Biography information for Lilian Greenwood
tabling member	5158

1737526

registered interest
date	28/10/2024
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Bus Services: Franchises
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps she is taking to ensure that local SME bus operators are able to participate in future bus franchising schemes.
tabling member constituency	Truro and Falmouth
tabling member printed	Jayne Kirkham
uin	11500
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/10/2024 answer text <p>The Bus Services Act 2017 already requires an authority to make a statement on how they will facilitate SMEs in service provision as part of the franchising process.</p><p> </p><p>On 9 September 2024, the Department consulted on updates to bus franchising guidance, these updates aim to reduce the technical barriers to franchising and support safer, more accessible services. The Department is currently reviewing the feedback received, including valuable insights from bus operators and organisations representing small-to-medium-sized operators, and will respond shortly.</p><p>The Department will continue working with local authorities to develop different franchising models that could be smaller scale, require less financial commitment and support SME participation.</p> answering member constituency Wakefield and Rothwell answering member printed Simon Lightwood question first answered 31/10/2024 09:23:59 answering member 4943 label Biography information for Simon Lightwood
tabling member	5279

1737544

registered interest
date	28/10/2024
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Driving Tests: Earley and Woodley
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps she is taking to help increase availability of practical driving tests in Earley and Woodley.
tabling member constituency	Earley and Woodley
tabling member printed	Yuan Yang
uin	11515
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/10/2024 answer text <p>The Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency’s (DVSA) main priority is upholding road safety standards while reducing car practical driving test waiting times.</p><p>Measures in place to reduce waiting times for customers, include buying back annual leave from driving examiners (DE), conducting tests outside regular hours, including at weekends and on public holidays and recruiting more DEs.</p><p>In its most recent recruitment campaign, DVSA had two successful candidates in Slough and three in Reading, and it has made offers to these prospective DEs. DVSA launched its latest recruitment campaign in September 2024 and is working to recruit three DEs in Farnborough, four in Slough and five into Reading DTC, which serves the areas of Earley and Woodley.</p> answering member constituency Nottingham South answering member printed Lilian Greenwood question first answered 31/10/2024 10:42:34 answering member 4029 label Biography information for Lilian Greenwood
tabling member	5267

1737158

registered interest
date	25/10/2024
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Driving Instruction: Women
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether her Department plans to take steps to regulate driving instructors to help ensure the safety of young women.
tabling member constituency	Stroud
tabling member printed	Dr Simon Opher
uin	11177
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/10/2024 answer text <p>The Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA) takes the safety of learner drivers extremely seriously and investigates thoroughly any complaints about approved driving instructors (ADI), involving the police if necessary. DVSA encourages pupils to report any incidents of inappropriate ADI conduct, and its complaints procedure is open for anyone to use.</p><p>DVSA requires every prospective ADI to apply for an enhanced disclosure and barring check before beginning the ADI qualification process, to find out whether an individual has been convicted of a criminal offence or barred from working with children. The role of an ADI is classed as regulated activity, which means that if someone has been barred from working with children, they would be committing an offence by applying for the role. An ADI is required to repeat the disclosure process every four years when they renew their ADI registration.</p><p>The ADI Registrar has the power to remove an ADI who falls below the standard of fit and proper person, and to suspend an ADI if they have been charged or convicted of a sexual or violent offence. These safeguards protect not just women, but everyone using the services of an ADI.</p> answering member constituency Nottingham South answering member printed Lilian Greenwood question first answered 30/10/2024 16:33:10 answering member 4029 label Biography information for Lilian Greenwood
tabling member	5030

1737185

registered interest
date	25/10/2024
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Roads
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if she will make an assessment of the potential impact of trends in the level of immigration on the road system.
tabling member constituency	Great Yarmouth
tabling member printed	Rupert Lowe
uin	11208
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/10/2024 answer text <p>The Department models future demand for road transport based on Office for National Statistics population forecasts, which include changes in population arising from immigration and other demographic change. Furthermore, the Department’s Common Analytical Scenarios consider futures that include high or low immigration to enable future uncertainty to be taken into account.</p> answering member constituency Nottingham South answering member printed Lilian Greenwood question first answered 31/10/2024 10:39:48 answering member 4029 label Biography information for Lilian Greenwood
tabling member	5158

1736959

registered interest
date	24/10/2024
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency: Telephone Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what the (a) average waiting time for people calling and (b) time people spent on hold for the DVLA was in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Great Yarmouth
tabling member printed	Rupert Lowe
uin	11116
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/10/2024 answer text <p><strong></strong></p><p>The table below provides the average waiting time, over the last five years, for someone who calls the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA) to be connected to an advisor. Please note that the figures for the various years are not directly comparable as the DVLA has moved to a new telephony platform which allows them to manage customer demand in different ways.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Fiscal Year</p></td><td><p>Average waiting time in minutes</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2020-2021</p></td><td><p>07:16</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2021-2022</p></td><td><p>10:12</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2022-2023</p></td><td><p>09:18</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2023-2024</p></td><td><p>12:55</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2024-24 Oct 24</p></td><td><p>13:22</p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency Nottingham South answering member printed Lilian Greenwood question first answered 31/10/2024 10:13:56 answering member 4029 label Biography information for Lilian Greenwood
tabling member	5158

1737121

registered interest
date	24/10/2024
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
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 Cabinet colleagues to support the maritime sector to develop clean maritime technologies.
tabling member constituency	Glenrothes and Mid Fife
tabling member printed	Richard Baker
uin	900973
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/10/2024 answer text <p>The Department for Transport’s £206m UK Shipping Office for Reducing Emissions (UK SHORE) programme focuses on accelerating the technology necessary to decarbonise our domestic maritime sector.</p><p>UK SHORE interventions address maritime decarbonisation challenges over the full range of technology-readiness levels (TRL) and are being rolled out between 2022 and 2025.</p><p>The UK SHORE programme has allocated funding to more than 150 projects and aims to leverage over £100m private investment to support research and development in maritime decarbonisation. The funding benefits all 12 regions in the UK supporting over 350 organisations, including over 200 SMEs.</p> answering member constituency Wythenshawe and Sale East answering member printed Mike Kane question first answered 31/10/2024 08:37:38 answering member 4316 label Biography information for Mike Kane
tabling member	5253

1736475

registered interest
date	23/10/2024
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Large Goods Vehicles: Parking
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether her Department is taking steps to help improve the welfare of HGV drivers through improved lorry parking facilities.
tabling member constituency	Dunstable and Leighton Buzzard
tabling member printed	Alex Mayer
uin	10830
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/10/2024 answer text <p>My department recognises the need to ensure all hauliers have access to appropriate roadside facilities, including to attract and retain a more diverse workforce.</p><p>That is why DfT and industry are jointly investing up to £43.5 million to upgrade truckstops across England. This is on top of up to £26 million joint investment by National Highways and industry in roadside facilities along the Strategic Road Network. This investment will improve working conditions for lorry drivers, supporting jobs, and getting us back on track for growth.</p><p>The Department continues to engage with key stakeholders to encourage the development of more safe, secure, and high-quality lorry parking to improve driver welfare.</p> answering member constituency Nottingham South answering member printed Lilian Greenwood question first answered 29/10/2024 16:00:21 answering member 4029 label Biography information for Lilian Greenwood
tabling member	5141

1736484

registered interest
date	23/10/2024
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Northumberland Line: Access
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment her Department has made of the adequacy of the accessibility of (a) stations and (b) rolling stock on the Northumberland Line.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne Central and West
tabling member printed	Chi Onwurah
uin	10721
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/10/2024 answer text <p>The six new stations on the Northumberland Line are being constructed in accordance with the appropriate accessibility standards and will need to demonstrate compliance as part of their acceptance into service. The rolling stock will be in compliance with the appropriate accessibility standards.</p> answering member constituency Wakefield and Rothwell answering member printed Simon Lightwood question first answered 30/10/2024 17:13:02 answering member 4943 label Biography information for Simon Lightwood
tabling member	4124 label Biography information for Chi Onwurah

1736506

registered interest
date	23/10/2024
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Rapid Transit Systems: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether she is taking steps to increase funding available for very light rail projects.
tabling member constituency	South Shropshire
tabling member printed	Stuart Anderson
uin	10771
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/10/2024 answer text <p>We are considering how best to support mass transit long-term as part of the Spending Review and we will work closely with local authorities to understand what is needed to improve and grow their networks by learning from their experiences and building on their successes.</p> answering member constituency Wakefield and Rothwell answering member printed Simon Lightwood question first answered 28/10/2024 14:40:27 answering member 4943 label Biography information for Simon Lightwood
tabling member	4742 label Biography information for Stuart Anderson