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	date	24/03/2014
	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, what assessment he has made of the benefits to children's safety of road crossing patrollers.
	tabling member constituency	Harlow
	tabling member printed	Robert Halfon
	uin	193298
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/03/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>The Government firmly believes in localism and providing local authorities with powers to introduce measures to deal with local needs and conditions. Local authorities will invariably have a strategy to improve road safety and will prioritise their road network based on the need to reduce casualties. </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The provision of the school crossing patrol service is a matter for the local authority. Legislation gives them the power to make arrangements for the patrolling of places where children cross roads on their way to or from school, but does not impose a duty on them to do so. Funding decisions are also a matter for the local authority based on their local needs and priorities.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>It is for the Council to assess the crossing situation and determine a course of action as it is in this situation. In some cases, if the authority agrees that children from a particular school need help in crossing a busy road but have not recruited anyone, they have to think about finding other ways of making the crossing safer - for example, by putting in a pedestrian crossing.</p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Scarborough and Whitby answering member printed Mr Robert Goodwill question first answered 27/03/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1562 label Biography information for Sir Robert Goodwill
	tabling member	3985 label Biography information for Robert Halfon

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	registered interest
	date	24/03/2014
	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, how much has been spent on road crossing patrollers in (a) Essex and (b) Harlow constituency in the last 10 years.
	tabling member constituency	Harlow
	tabling member printed	Robert Halfon
	uin	193303
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/03/2014 answer text <p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p><p>The Department does not hold records of the amount spent on school crossing patrol services in each local authority.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Scarborough and Whitby answering member printed Mr Robert Goodwill question first answered 27/03/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1562 label Biography information for Sir Robert Goodwill
	tabling member	3985 label Biography information for Robert Halfon