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1714680

registered interest
date	29/04/2024
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Motorcycles: Driving Licences
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government whether they have made an assessment of how the Motorcycle Industry Association’s proposals to incentivise the progressive access licensing route would impact road safety.
tabling member printed	Lord Moylan
uin	HL4166
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/05/2024 answer text <p>In December 2023, officials met with motorcycle stakeholder representatives to listen to and discuss various motorcycle initiatives including ideas for reform. Discussions continue, and a roundtable with Ministerial attendance is scheduled for the 8th of May.</p> answering member printed Lord Davies of Gower question first answered 08/05/2024 12:08:43 answering member 4499 label Biography information for Lord Davies of Gower
tabling member	4883 label Biography information for Lord Moylan

1689984

registered interest
date	19/02/2024
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Motorcycles: Driving Licences
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 21 November 2023 to Question 1424 on Motorcycles: Carbon Emissions, what plans he has to simplify the L-category licensing regime in 2024.
tabling member constituency	Leeds North East
tabling member printed	Fabian Hamilton
uin	14473
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/02/2024 answer text <p>In December officials met with motorcycle stakeholder representatives to listen to and discuss various motorcycle initiatives including ideas for reform. Discussions continue and a Ministerial roundtable is scheduled for May.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman question first answered 23/02/2024 09:23:49 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
tabling member	415 label Biography information for Fabian Hamilton

1689985

registered interest
date	19/02/2024
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Motorcycles: Driving Licences
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to the Motorcycle Industry Association’s (MCIA) report entitled MCIA and Zemo partnership action plan scorecard: realising the full potential of zero emission powered light vehicles, published in January 2024, whether he has made an assessment of the implications for his policies of that report's evaluation of the Government’s progress on delivering L-category licence reform.
tabling member constituency	Leeds North East
tabling member printed	Fabian Hamilton
uin	14474
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/02/2024 answer text <p>We welcome the report and continue to discuss the findings with representatives of the motorcycle industry.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman question first answered 22/02/2024 14:35:14 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
tabling member	415 label Biography information for Fabian Hamilton

1669350

registered interest
date	13/11/2023
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Motorcycles: Driving Licences
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what plans they have to review the existing L-Category licensing regime to (1) improve access, (2) reduce costs, and (3) help accelerate progress towards net zero.
tabling member printed	Baroness Ritchie of Downpatrick
uin	HL241
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/11/2023 answer text <p>The Government is open to discussing ideas for reform of the existing motorcycle testing requirements and the wider licensing regime for powered light vehicles known as L category vehicles where they do not compromise safety standards. The Government has received proposals from the Motorcycle Industry Association calling for such reform. The Government intends to engage with the MCIA on these proposals in the coming weeks in order to discuss and better understand them.</p> answering member printed Lord Davies of Gower question first answered 27/11/2023 14:55:47 answering member 4499 label Biography information for Lord Davies of Gower
tabling member	4130 label Biography information for Baroness Ritchie of Downpatrick

1669353

registered interest
date	13/11/2023
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Motorcycles: Driving Licences
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what plans they have to involve the DVSA Motorcycle Strategic Focus Group in reviewing the existing L-Category licensing regime.
tabling member printed	Baroness Ritchie of Downpatrick
uin	HL244
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/11/2023 answer text <p>The Government is open to discussing ideas for reform of the existing licensing regime for powered light vehicles known as L category vehicles where they do not compromise safety standards. The Government intends to engage with the Motorcycle Industry Association in the coming weeks to discuss their proposals for reform in order to better understand them.</p><p> </p><p>The Motorcycle Strategic Focus Group’s remit is to consider the wider issues affecting motorcyclists including powered two wheelers and personal light vehicles. This includes developments affecting road safety and the training and testing for riders in the motorcycle sector. The group will therefore be made aware of any proposals to review the existing L-Category licensing regime.</p> answering member printed Lord Davies of Gower question first answered 27/11/2023 14:51:12 answering member 4499 label Biography information for Lord Davies of Gower
tabling member	4130 label Biography information for Baroness Ritchie of Downpatrick

1667474

registered interest
date	07/11/2023
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Motorcycles: Driving Licences
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will make an assessment of the potential impact of proposals relating to reform of the licensing process for L-Category vehicles published by the Motorcycle Industry Association in its document entitled A Licence to Net Zero on (a) the cost of L-Category licensing for (i) the Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA) and (ii) riders and (b) DVSA L-Category test capacity.
tabling member constituency	Mole Valley
tabling member printed	Sir Paul Beresford
uin	6
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/11/2023 answer text <p>The Government is open to discussing ideas for reform of the existing licensing regime for powered light vehicles known as L category vehicles where they do not compromise safety standards. The Government intends to engage with the Motorcycle Industry Association in the coming weeks to discuss and consider how they align with existing work and planning linked to licencing reform.</p> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman question first answered 15/11/2023 16:10:30 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
tabling member	103 label Biography information for Sir Paul Beresford

1666484

registered interest
date	23/10/2023
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Motorcycles: Driving Licences
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what plans they have to simplify the licensing regime for mopeds, motorcycles and other forms of powered light vehicle (PLV) within the current parliament.
tabling member printed	Lord Berkeley
uin	HL10716
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/10/2023 answer text <p>There are no current plans to make changes to the driver licensing regime for these vehicles.</p> answering member printed Baroness Vere of Norbiton question first answered 26/10/2023 10:44:29 answering member 4580 label Biography information for Baroness Vere of Norbiton
tabling member	3526 label Biography information for Lord Berkeley

1002039

registered interest
date	05/11/2018
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Motorcycles: Driving Licences
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what estimate his Department has made of the number of motorcycle licences issued in each of the last three years.
tabling member constituency	Upper Bann
tabling member printed	David Simpson
uin	188060
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/11/2018 answer text <p>The specific information requested is not held. However, there are currently around 3.7 million drivers in Great Britain who hold entitlement to drive a motorcycle. The number of licences issued in each of the last three years following a notification of a motorcycle test pass being received by the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency is shown in the table below:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Year</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Number of motorcycle licences</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015</p></td><td><p>36,939</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016</p></td><td><p>39,492</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017</p></td><td><p>41,150</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2018</p></td><td><p>30,870</p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 15/11/2018 15:07:52 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	1597 label Biography information for David Simpson

810020

registered interest
date	20/12/2017
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Motorcycles: Driving Licences
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Baroness Sugg on 6 December (HL3547), which are the police forces that collect and publish statistics on the number of accidents involving moped riders with provisional licences; and why all police forces are not required to monitor and report on that aspect of road safety.
tabling member printed	Baroness Randerson
uin	HL4366
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/01/2018 answer text <p>Information about licence holding is not a variable in the STATS19 reporting system, which is the set of data that has to be collected for statistical purposes by a Police Officer when a personal injury road accident is reported to them. The variables to be collected by the police are defined by the STATS19 specification, and the police provide this information through the Annual Data Requirement.</p><p> </p><p>Data on licence holding is only reported voluntarily by certain police forces which use the CRASH (Collision Recording And Sharing) software developed by DfT, and the data are not made available publicly. CRASH is used by about half of the police forces in England, and not all of these collect the licence holding information.</p><p> </p><p>The specification for the data collected by STATS19 is reviewed periodically by the Standing Committee on Road Accident Statistics (SCRAS).</p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Sugg question first answered 08/01/2018 17:06:09 answering member 4584 label Biography information for Baroness Sugg
tabling member	4230 label Biography information for Baroness Randerson

794227

registered interest
date	23/11/2017
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Motorcycles: Driving Licences
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the risks associated with regulations which allow riders to operate mopeds without any training or experience.
tabling member printed	Baroness Randerson
uin	HL3545
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/12/2017 answer text <p>Only car drivers who passed a driving test before 1 February 2001 are permitted to ride a moped without first completing Compulsory Basic Training. The Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA) has not carried out a specific assessment of the risks associated with this regulation that allows such persons to operate mopeds without any training or experience.</p><p> </p><p>However, we believe that the number of people who take advantage of this provision is very small and the number will reduce slightly every year as older drivers in the cohort stop driving.</p><p> </p><p>These risks have been considered several times since compulsory basic training (CBT) for learner moped riders motorcyclists was introduced in 1990.</p> answering member printed Baroness Sugg question first answered 07/12/2017 16:12:38 answering member 4584 label Biography information for Baroness Sugg
tabling member	4230 label Biography information for Baroness Randerson