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1524012

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date	19/10/2022
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Large Goods Vehicles: Driving Licences
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what help is available to those who have (a) no money or (b) are unemployed to get a HGV Licence.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	67021
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/10/2022 answer text <p>The Government has invested up to £34 million in skills bootcamps to train up to 11,000 more people to become HGV drivers. These are free, short, intensive courses to train new drivers to gain an HGV licence. In addition, the Large Goods Vehicle Driver apprenticeship standard to train articulated HGV drivers, which is supported with up to £7,000 of funding, and the Urban Driver apprenticeship to train rigid HGV drivers with up to £5,000 of funding are available for businesses.</p><p>Support for education and training outside England is a matter for the devolved administrations.</p><p>The Department for Work and Pensions and Jobcentre Plus in England, Scotland and Wales are also supporting jobseekers become HGV drivers where appropriate. Some Jobcentre regions have created Sector-based Work Academy Programmes where the local job market requires more HGV drivers.</p><p>Employment support is a devolved matter for the Northern Ireland Executive.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 25/10/2022 10:02:53 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

1524318

registered interest
date	19/10/2022
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Large Goods Vehicles: Accidents
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many road traffic collisions foreign HGV drivers have been involved in the last 10 years on UK roads.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle-under-Lyme
tabling member printed	Aaron Bell
uin	67258
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/10/2022 answer text <p>The information requested is not available as the Department’s reported road collisions statistics are not broken down by nationality of driver.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 25/10/2022 09:59:33 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
tabling member	4837 label Biography information for Aaron Bell

1524319

registered interest
date	19/10/2022
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Large Goods Vehicles: Registration
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what recent assessment her Department has made of the adequacy of arrangements with the Netherlands for sharing foreign HGV registration details.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle-under-Lyme
tabling member printed	Aaron Bell
uin	67259
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/10/2022 answer text <p>The Netherlands, like other EU Member States, can request HGV registration details under Mutual Legal Assistance provisions. However, the Trade and Cooperation Agreement suspends timescales for responding to Mutual Legal Assistance requests for vehicle registration data in respect of the enforcement of minor traffic offences until 1 January 2024. Requests are dealt with on a case-by-case basis.</p><p>We are reviewing our approach to the provision of data once timescales apply.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 25/10/2022 12:17:38 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
tabling member	4837 label Biography information for Aaron Bell

1524322

registered interest
date	19/10/2022
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Motor Vehicles: Registration
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what discussions she has had with international counterparts on improving data sharing between international vehicle registration databases.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle-under-Lyme
tabling member printed	Aaron Bell
uin	67261
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/10/2022 answer text <p>Department for Transport officials engage with a range of international counterparts on issues including data sharing between international vehicle registration databases, both in the context of wider negotiations and in response to specific queries from international partners.</p><p>While it would not be appropriate to comment on the details of these conversations, the UK is committed to honouring its international obligations.</p><p>The Secretary of State for Transport has not been involved directly in discussions on this matter.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 25/10/2022 10:05:14 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
tabling member	4837 label Biography information for Aaron Bell

1524323

registered interest
date	19/10/2022
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Motorways: Speed Limits
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment she has made of the adequacy of speed limits on smart motorways.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle-under-Lyme
tabling member printed	Aaron Bell
uin	67262
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/10/2022 answer text <p>Rules 124-125 of The Highway Code set out the speed limits applicable on motorways (including smart motorways), in accordance with the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984.</p><p>Smart motorways have variable mandatory speed limits to smooth traffic flow, and reduce congestion, and have electronic signs to warn drivers of incidents ahead. This enables less speeding, tailgating and fewer rapid changes of speed.</p><p>Enforcement by the Police is one of a number of measures which are used to encourage compliance with variable speed limits and ensure that schemes are working as intended.</p> answering member constituency South Ribble answering member printed Katherine Fletcher question first answered 25/10/2022 12:19:33 answering member 4834 label Biography information for Katherine Fletcher
tabling member	4837 label Biography information for Aaron Bell

1524331

registered interest
date	19/10/2022
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Department for Transport: Buildings
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what estimate she has made of the number of work stations available for people employed by his Department on departmental premises.
tabling member constituency	Halifax
tabling member printed	Holly Lynch
uin	67085
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/10/2022 answer text <p>There are 11,284 work stations available for use on departmental premises.</p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster question first answered 25/10/2022 09:57:10 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
tabling member	4472 label Biography information for Holly Lynch

1524349

registered interest
date	19/10/2022
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Motor Vehicles: Speed Limits
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what recent assessment she has made of the adequacy of rules on speed guidance systems in cars; and if she will take steps to introduce new requirements to ensure in-vehicle systems (a) follow road rules and (b) can be overridden by drivers when they do not.
tabling member constituency	Hampstead and Kilburn
tabling member printed	Tulip Siddiq
uin	67131
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/10/2022 answer text <p>There are currently no mandatory requirements for speed guidance systems fitted to cars in Great Britain. Intelligent Speed Assistance (ISA) is such a system and was mandated for new vehicles by the European Union (EU) from this year under an agreed a package of measures known as the General Safety Regulation (GSR) but does not apply to the UK following our EU Exit.</p><p>The UK’s departure from the EU provides the platform to capitalise on regulatory freedoms and make decisions that are right for road safety in Great Britain. An assessment is being undertaken on vehicle technologies introduced by GSR and a decision will be taken in due course as to whether to mandate any of those in Great Britain.</p><p>Irrespective of the technology deployed on a vehicle and how it performs, the driver is required by law to be in control of their vehicle at all times. Therefore, as a principle, any Advanced Driver Assistance System (ADAS), like ISA, can be overridden or switched off by the driver at any time.</p> answering member constituency South Ribble answering member printed Katherine Fletcher question first answered 25/10/2022 12:22:18 answering member 4834 label Biography information for Katherine Fletcher
tabling member	4518 label Biography information for Tulip Siddiq

1524379

registered interest
date	19/10/2022
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Speed Limits
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if she will put in place guidelines for local authorities requiring them to base all local speed limits on traffic-engineering principles and not to impose lower speed limits merely as a local traffic deterrent or for other reasons.
tabling member constituency	East Yorkshire
tabling member printed	Sir Greg Knight
uin	66915
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/10/2022 answer text <p>Local traffic authorities are responsible for taking decisions about setting speed limits on their roads as they have the local knowledge making them the best placed to do so.</p><p>The Department for Transport issues non-mandatory guidance to English local authorities on setting speed limits.</p><p>Factors authorities are advised to take into account include history of collisions; road environment, geometry and engineering; road function and types of road users (including existing and potential levels of vulnerable road users); and existing traffic speeds.</p> answering member constituency South Ribble answering member printed Katherine Fletcher question first answered 24/10/2022 09:09:25 answering member 4834 label Biography information for Katherine Fletcher
tabling member	1200 label Biography information for Sir Greg Knight

1524404

registered interest
date	19/10/2022
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Railways: Passengers
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps her Department is taking to help rail companies ensure that passengers are not subject to unfair (a) costs and (b) overcrowded services.
tabling member constituency	Hampstead and Kilburn
tabling member printed	Tulip Siddiq
uin	67145
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/10/2022 answer text <p>The Government is taking decisive action to reduce the impact inflation will have on rail fares during the cost of living crisis and, in august, we guaranteed we will not be increasing fares by as much as the July RPI figure. We are also again delaying any change to March 2023, temporarily freezing fares for passengers to travel at a lower price for the entirety of January and February.</p><p>Earlier this year we launched the Great British Rail Sale, the first ever nationwide rail sale. Over 1.3 million tickets were sold, offering around £7million worth of savings for passengers.</p><p>There are also several railcards available to passengers which offer discounts against most rail fares.</p><p>As the pandemic has changed travel habits, train operators are using this opportunity to reassess their services to ensure they provide rail timetables that meet new passenger travel patterns, are fit for the future, and carefully balance cost, capacity and performance.</p><p>The new timetables are demand-led and built with flexibility in mind, so if passenger numbers increase as we continue to recover from the pandemic, we can look to accommodate additional services. Where operators have modified their timetables, the changes will be kept under review and, where appropriate, adjusted to reflect fluctuations in demand.</p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster question first answered 24/10/2022 11:33:14 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
tabling member	4518 label Biography information for Tulip Siddiq

1524423

registered interest
date	19/10/2022
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Driverless Vehicles: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to the £100 million of new R&D funding to support commercial deployment of connected and self-driving technologies and the creation of a safety assurance framework, announced in Connected & Automated Mobility 2025: Realising the benefits of self-driving vehicles in the UK, published in August 2022, from which specific departmental budget headings that spending will be funded.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne Central
tabling member printed	Chi Onwurah
uin	67282
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/10/2022 answer text <p>Of the £100 million funding allocated to the Government’s Centre for Connected and Autonomous Vehicles, as set out in the Connected and Automated Mobility 2025 paper:</p><ul><li>£66 million will be funded by the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy's research and development funding to support commercialisation of the technologies.</li><li>£34 million will be funded by the Department for Transport. Of this, £26 million is allocated to research and development of technical safety standards, social and behavioural research, and safety assurance methodologies. £8 million is allocated to the development of new processes within the Department’s Motoring Agencies.</li></ul> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 25/10/2022 10:07:48 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
tabling member	4124 label Biography information for Chi Onwurah