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1043055

registered interest
date	17/01/2019
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Department for Transport: Legal Costs
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what the highest hourly rate was that (a) his Department and (b) each of his Department's arms-length bodies paid for legal advice in 2018.
tabling member constituency	Leeds East
tabling member printed	Richard Burgon
uin	209811
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/01/2019 answer text <p>The Department consists of the central Department and four executive Agencies as follows:</p><p> </p><p>Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA)</p><p>Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA)</p><p>Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA)</p><p>Vehicle Certification Agency (VCA)</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>The highest hourly rate that the Department paid for legal advice in 2018 is £640.00.</p><p> </p><p>The highest hour rate that each of the Department’s arms-length bodies paid for legal advice in 2018 as follows:</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Highways England</p></td><td><p>£360.00</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Transport Focus</p></td><td><p>£350.00</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>British Transport Police Authority</p></td><td><p>£400.00</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Northern Lighthouse Board</p></td><td><p>£250.00</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Trinity House Lighthouse Service</p></td><td><p>£400.00</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>High Speed 2 Ltd</p></td><td><p>£446.74</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Network Rail</p></td><td><p>£690.00</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 25/01/2019 13:42:38 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	4493 label Biography information for Richard Burgon

1043133

registered interest
date	17/01/2019
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Department for Transport: Pay
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what information his Department holds on the rate of remuneration for (a) cleaners, (b) security guards and (c) catering staff in his Department in (i) Greater London and (ii) outside Greater London.
tabling member constituency	Stoke-on-Trent Central
tabling member printed	Gareth Snell
uin	209886
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/01/2019 answer text <p>The Department for Transport does not hold remuneration rates for cleaners, catering staff and security guards as these services are provided through a Total Facilities Management (TFM) contract, which has a fixed single monthly payment covering all services. Under that TFM contract all staff employed by the service provider are paid at least the National Minimum Wage.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 25/01/2019 12:53:16 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	4595 label Biography information for Gareth Snell

1042263

registered interest
date	16/01/2019
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Motorcycles: Accidents
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what conclusions the Road Collision Investigation Project has made on road accidents involving motorcyclists.
tabling member constituency	Southampton, Itchen
tabling member printed	Royston Smith
uin	209338
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/01/2019 answer text <p>In June 2018, the Government announced that the RAC Foundation, supported by £480,000 of Government funding, would lead the trial of an innovative new approach to road casualty investigation alongside police forces. As part of this initiative dedicated teams will be carrying out in-depth research in selected cases to get a better understanding of what is really causing collisions on our roads. These collisions will be analysed in 3 regions over 3 years and will look at collisions covering a range of modes of travel, including motorbikes. The Government will release a final report at the end of the project.</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 21/01/2019 17:44:22 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	4478 label Biography information for Royston Smith

1042264

registered interest
date	16/01/2019
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Roads: Accidents
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	If he will bring forward legislative proposals to allow roadside rescue and recovery operators to use red warning light on their vehicles; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Hemel Hempstead
tabling member printed	Sir Mike Penning
uin	209303
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/01/2019 answer text <p>The Government recognises the important work that recovery operators perform. The Road Vehicles Lighting Regulations (RVLR) 1989 permit the use of amber warning beacons capable of emitting a flashing or rotating beam of light to raise awareness of vehicles during recovery operations. Amber is a universally recognised signal colour.</p><p> </p><p>RVLR also permits the use of an illuminated warning sign which must show a steady light, and be red if showing to the rear of the vehicle, and white or in some circumstances yellow if showing to the front.</p><p> </p><p>There are no current plans to change the law.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 25/01/2019 13:30:16 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning

1042361

registered interest
date	16/01/2019
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, what assessment he has made of the effect of local authorities enforcing 20mph zones in built-up areas on the level of pedestrians involved in traffic accidents.
tabling member constituency	Lewisham West and Penge
tabling member printed	Ellie Reeves
uin	209377
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/01/2019 answer text <p>The Department has not carried out a study on the effect of speed enforcement in 20mph zones (which have traffic calming measures such as chicanes and speed humps) or on 20mph limits (which have signs only).</p><p> </p><p>DfT guidance recommends that successful 20 mph zones and 20 mph speed limits are mutually reinforcing, i.e. the existing conditions of the road together with measures such as traffic calming or signing, publicity and information as part of the scheme, lead to a mean traffic speed compliant with the speed limit. Within this approach, to achieve compliance there should be no expectation on the police to provide additional enforcement beyond their routine activity, unless this has been explicitly agreed with the local traffic authority.</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 23/01/2019 13:46:45 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	4620 label Biography information for Ellie Reeves

1042362

registered interest
date	16/01/2019
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Roads: Accidents
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps he is taking to encourage local authorities to issue public safety campaigns to reduce the number of pedestrians involved in traffic accidents.
tabling member constituency	Lewisham West and Penge
tabling member printed	Ellie Reeves
uin	209378
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/01/2019 answer text <p>The Road Traffic Act 1988 gives local authorities the responsibility for carrying out a programme of road safety and to take preventative measures including dissemination of information such as public education campaigns.</p><p> </p><p>The Government wants to see roads which are safe and which meet the needs of all users, including vulnerable road users such as pedestrians. The Government encourages local authorities, schools and the public to use its THINK! road safety educational campaigns and resources, which cover a wide range of issues. These campaigns encourage safer behaviours, so as to reduce the number of people killed and injured.</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 23/01/2019 13:54:06 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	4620 label Biography information for Ellie Reeves

1042363

registered interest
date	16/01/2019
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Roads: Accidents
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many serious road traffic accidents there were in (a) the UK, (b) London, (c) Borough of Lewisham and (d) Borough of Bromley in each of the last 10 years.
tabling member constituency	Lewisham West and Penge
tabling member printed	Ellie Reeves
uin	209379
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/01/2019 answer text <p>The table below provides the number of serious reported personal injury road accidents in Great Britain, London, Borough of Lewisham and Borough of Bromley between 2007 and 2017.</p><p> </p><p>Please note that the number of serious accidents provided is as reported by the police. Since 2016, changes in severity reporting systems for a large number of police forces mean that serious injury figures are not comparable with earlier years. In particular figures for London in 2017, and to a lesser extent 2016, are impacted by the Metropolitan Police Service changing system in November 2016.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p><strong>Serious reported road accidents, 2007 to 2017</strong></p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Year</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Great Britain</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>London</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Borough of Lewisham</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Borough of Bromley</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2007</p></td><td><p>24,322</p></td><td><p>3,268</p></td><td><p>111</p></td><td><p>121</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2008</p></td><td><p>23,121</p></td><td><p>3,061</p></td><td><p>106</p></td><td><p>104</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2009</p></td><td><p>21,997</p></td><td><p>2,828</p></td><td><p>99</p></td><td><p>107</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010</p></td><td><p>20,440</p></td><td><p>2,627</p></td><td><p>100</p></td><td><p>80</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011</p></td><td><p>20,986</p></td><td><p>2,550</p></td><td><p>99</p></td><td><p>69</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012</p></td><td><p>20,901</p></td><td><p>2,793</p></td><td><p>96</p></td><td><p>78</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013</p></td><td><p>19,624</p></td><td><p>2,112</p></td><td><p>57</p></td><td><p>61</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014</p></td><td><p>20,676</p></td><td><p>1,979</p></td><td><p>56</p></td><td><p>46</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015</p></td><td><p>20,038</p></td><td><p>1,882</p></td><td><p>50</p></td><td><p>64</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016</p></td><td><p>21,725</p></td><td><p>2,291</p></td><td><p>63</p></td><td><p>80</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017</p></td><td><p>22,534</p></td><td><p>3,622</p></td><td><p>110</p></td><td><p>102</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2"><p>Source: DfT STATS19</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>The data we hold only covers reported personal injury road accidents in Great Britain, we do not have data for Northern Ireland.</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 23/01/2019 12:57:33 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	4620 label Biography information for Ellie Reeves

1042365

registered interest
date	16/01/2019
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Roads: Safety
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what plans he has to increase road safety nationally.
tabling member constituency	Lewisham West and Penge
tabling member printed	Ellie Reeves
uin	209410
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/01/2019 answer text <p>The Department is currently taking forward a number of road safety measures in accordance with its publicly stated road safety priorities, through the Road Safety Statement.</p><p> </p><p>In June last year, the Department issued a written statement to Parliament which included a progress report on the actions from that statement. Full details are available on the www.gov.uk website.</p><p>(<a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/speeches/road-safety-recent-progress-and-future-work" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/speeches/road-safety-recent-progress-and-future-work</a>)</p><p> </p><p>The Department intends to publish a refreshed road safety statement and a two-year road safety action plan later this year.</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 23/01/2019 13:29:47 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	4620 label Biography information for Ellie Reeves

1041666

registered interest
date	15/01/2019
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Motorcycles: Accidents
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to page 6 of his Department's publication entitled Facts on motorcyclists casualties, published in June 2015, what the proportion is of (a) car drivers and (b) light van drivers whose contributory factor of their accidents involving motorcyclists was their failure to look properly in each year from 2013 to 2017.
tabling member constituency	Southampton, Itchen
tabling member printed	Royston Smith
uin	208890
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/01/2019 answer text <p>The publication entitled <em>Facts on Motorcyclist Casualties</em> published in June 2015 provided information on the proportion of cars and light goods vehicles allocated the contributory factor ‘failed to look properly’ in accidents involving a motorcyclist casualty where a police officer attended the scene of the accident. These proportions for each year from 2013 to 2017 are presented in the table below.</p><p> </p><p>Since police officers do not always record a contributory factor when they attend a scene, we have also included data showing the proportion for those accidents where a contributory factor was recorded. This is the more commonly presented approach for contributory factors.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="4"><p><strong>Proportion of vehicles involved in accidents with at least one motorcycle casualty and police officer attending where 'Failed to look properly' contributory factor allocated, Great Britain, 2013 to 2017</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>As a proportion of all vehicles in these accidents</p></td><td><p>As a proportion of all vehicles in these accidents where at least one contributory factor allocated</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Year</p></td><td><p>Vehicle</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013</p></td><td><p>Car</p></td><td><p><em>47.4%</em></p></td><td><p><em>49.0%</em></p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Light goods vehicle</p></td><td><p><em>46.8%</em></p></td><td><p><em>47.5%</em></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014</p></td><td><p>Car</p></td><td><p><em>47.8%</em></p></td><td><p><em>49.2%</em></p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Light goods vehicle</p></td><td><p><em>48.8%</em></p></td><td><p><em>49.6%</em></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015</p></td><td><p>Car</p></td><td><p><em>48.6%</em></p></td><td><p><em>50.3%</em></p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Light goods vehicle</p></td><td><p><em>45.9%</em></p></td><td><p><em>47.3%</em></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016</p></td><td><p>Car</p></td><td><p><em>45.7%</em></p></td><td><p><em>47.0%</em></p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Light goods vehicle</p></td><td><p><em>46.2%</em></p></td><td><p><em>47.3%</em></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017</p></td><td><p>Car</p></td><td><p><em>40.0%</em></p></td><td><p><em>40.9%</em></p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Light goods vehicle</p></td><td><p><em>37.7%</em></p></td><td><p><em>38.4%</em></p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p><em>Source: DfT STATS19</em></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>Using this approach, the proportion of cars and light goods vehicles allocated the contributory factor ‘failed to look properly’ for the years 2009 to 2013 in the 2015 report would have been 48.1% and 48.2% respectively.</p><p> </p><p>Contributory factors assigned by police officers do not assign blame for the accident to any specific road user, however they do provide some insight into why and how road accidents occur. They give an indication of which factors the attending officer thought contributed to the accident. Officers do not need to carry out a full investigation of the incident before allocating contributory factors; they usually use professional judgement about what they can see at the scene.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 21/01/2019 11:02:50 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	4478 label Biography information for Royston Smith

1041784

registered interest
date	15/01/2019
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	M180: Repairs and Maintenance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, for how long lane closures will be in place on the M180 east of Scunthorpe; for what reason those lane closures have been introduced; and why work is not being carried out on a 24-hour basis to reduce the length of lane closures.
tabling member constituency	East Yorkshire
tabling member printed	Sir Greg Knight
uin	208796
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/01/2019 answer text <p>The current lane closures are scheduled to be lifted in early February this year. These will be followed by further lane closures on the eastbound carriageway until early March 2019.</p><p> </p><p>The lane closures are in place as Highways England are replacing the safety barrier at various sites along this section of the M180.</p><p> </p><p>Highways England have removed the existing safety barriers, and have erected temporary barriers in place to protect the now exposed structures. Lane closures must remain on a 24-hour basis because it would be unsafe for Highways England to remove the temporary barriers while works continue.</p><p> </p><p>These closures are necessary to cover various work locations and enable more activity to take place across the whole site, so as to minimise the programme’s total duration and therefore reduce the overall disruption. Work takes place throughout the day; the overnight closures also allow for the concrete used on the foundations and ends of the new barriers to set.</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 21/01/2019 12:47:01 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	1200 label Biography information for Sir Greg Knight