The Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency is reducing vocational waiting times by recruiting more examiners, improving its forecasting model to better match resource with demand and redeploying examiners from lower wait centres to those with higher waiting times.<\/p>"} , "answeringMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/3996", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Andrew Jones"} } , "answeringMemberConstituency" : {"_value" : "Harrogate and Knaresborough"} , "answeringMemberPrinted" : {"_value" : "Andrew Jones"} , "dateOfAnswer" : {"_value" : "2016-05-04", "_datatype" : "dateTime"} , "isMinisterialCorrection" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"} , "questionFirstAnswered" : [{"_value" : "2016-05-04T15:47:01.37Z", "_datatype" : "dateTime"} ]} , "answeringDeptId" : {"_value" : "27"} , "answeringDeptShortName" : {"_value" : "Transport"} , "answeringDeptSortName" : {"_value" : "Transport"} , "date" : {"_value" : "2016-04-26", "_datatype" : "dateTime"} , "hansardHeading" : {"_value" : "Large Goods Vehicles: Testing"} , "houseId" : {"_value" : "1"} , "legislature" : [{"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/terms/25259", "prefLabel" : {"_value" : "House of Commons"} } ], "questionText" : "To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps his Department is taking to reduce HGV testing waiting lists at Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency testing centres.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"} , "tablingMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/1569", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Robert Flello"} } , "tablingMemberConstituency" : {"_value" : "Stoke-on-Trent South"} , "tablingMemberPrinted" : [{"_value" : "Robert Flello"} ], "uin" : "35509"} , {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/515700", "AnsweringBody" : [{"_value" : "Department for Transport"} ], "answer" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/515700/answer", "answerText" : {"_value" : "
The British Transport Police (BTP) Authority has approved a budget for 2016-17 which includes an amount of £66.933 million in respect of the Transport for London (TFL) Police Service Agreement and overhead charges. The figure excludes any additional policing services which are provided by the BTP at TfL\u2019s request on a commercial basis.<\/p>
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Highways England is starting full-scale options work on the A417 Missing Link \u2018Air Balloon\u2019 roundabout scheme this financial year (2016/17), with the intention that the scheme will be ready to start construction as early as possible in the next Road Investment Strategy period which starts on 1 April 2020.<\/p>
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A total of 65 personal injury road accidents were reported to the police between 2010 and 2014 in the vicinity of the A417 scheme.<\/p>
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The number of reported personal injury road accidents per year by severity are as follows:<\/p>
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<\/p><\/td> | Fatal<\/p><\/td> | Serious<\/p><\/td> | Slight<\/p><\/td> | Total<\/p><\/td><\/tr> |
2010<\/p><\/td> | 1<\/p><\/td> | 1<\/p><\/td> | 14<\/p><\/td> | 16<\/p><\/td><\/tr> |
2011<\/p><\/td> | 1<\/p><\/td> | 0<\/p><\/td> | 9<\/p><\/td> | 10<\/p><\/td><\/tr> |
2012<\/p><\/td> | 0<\/p><\/td> | 2<\/p><\/td> | 13<\/p><\/td> | 15<\/p><\/td><\/tr> |
2013<\/p><\/td> | 2<\/p><\/td> | 2<\/p><\/td> | 4<\/p><\/td> | 8<\/p><\/td><\/tr> |
2014<\/p><\/td> | 2<\/p><\/td> | 3<\/p><\/td> | 11<\/p><\/td> | 16<\/p><\/td><\/tr> |
5yr total<\/p><\/td> | 6<\/p><\/td> | 8<\/p><\/td> | 51<\/p><\/td> | 65<\/p><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table> <\/p> <\/strong><\/p> Figures for 2015 will be published on 30th<\/sup> June 2016.<\/p> <\/p>"}
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], "questionText" : "To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many road traffic accidents have been recorded over the last five years on the area of the A417 in Gloucestershire for which an upgrade is planned in 2020.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"}
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], "questionText" : "To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many accidents were reported involving mobility scooters in 2015.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"}
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], "questionText" : "To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 10 March 2016 to Question 30100, what estimate his Department has made of the cost to the public purse of preparing and publishing the Shaw Report: Final Report and Recommendations, published on 16 March 2016.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"}
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