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1216819

registered interest
date	23/06/2020
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Roads: Rural Areas
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what plans his Department has to improve road safety in (a) Herefordshire and (b) other rural areas.
tabling member constituency	North Herefordshire
tabling member printed	Bill Wiggin
uin	63236
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/07/2020 answer text <p>Whilst the Department has no current plan to improve road safety specifically in Herefordshire, the Department’s Safer Roads Fund will benefit the wider area. In 2017 £2.16 million was awarded to improve the A4173 in Gloucestershire and in 2018 £3.89 million was awarded to improve the A529 in Shropshire. These improvements will also benefit the constituents of Hereford as they travel further afield.</p><p> </p><p>In July 2019, the Government published the Road Safety Statement 2019: ‘A Lifetime of Road Safety. This includes a two-year action plan to address a range of road safety issues which will improve safety for all road users, including establishing a working group to address rural road safety issues.</p> answering member constituency Redditch answering member printed Rachel Maclean question first answered 01/07/2020 14:43:53 answering member 4668 label Biography information for Rachel Maclean
tabling member	1428 label Biography information for Sir Bill Wiggin

1216820

registered interest
date	23/06/2020
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 road accidents involving tractors there were in Herefordshire in 2019.
tabling member constituency	North Herefordshire
tabling member printed	Bill Wiggin
uin	63237
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/07/2020 answer text <p>Detailed final statistics on reported personal injury road accidents in Great Britain for 2019 will be published in September 2020. The latest annual published statistics are for 2018.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>The number of reported personal injury road accidents involving scooters and tractors in Herefordshire, in 2018 can be found in the below table:</p><p> </p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="2" rowspan="2"><p><strong>Reported personal injury road accidents, by road user type involved, Herefordshire, 2018</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Road user type involved</p></td><td><p>Number of accidents</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Scooter<sup>1</sup></p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Tractor<sup>2</sup></p></td><td><p>6</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2"><p>Source: DfT, STATS19</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" rowspan="2"><p>1. Scooters are not one of the designated vehicle types collected in a STATS19 reportable accidents. As such they can only be identified by using a free text field or where the vehicle type includes the word scooter. The only scooter type recorded in Herefordshire in 2018 is mobility scooter.</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" rowspan="2"><p>2. Tractors are not one of the designated vehicle types collected in a STATS19 reportable accidents. As such they can only be identified by linking to other data sources. Vehicles that have a valid registration mark are matched to the DVLA database, which allows additional information to be linked to the records kept by DfT. For this analysis DVLA body types included are agricultural tractor, station tractor and tractor excavator, and the only type excluded was tractor units used for articulated lorries. The only results in body type analysis recorded in Herefordshire in 2018 was for agricultural tractors.</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency Redditch answering member printed Rachel Maclean grouped question UIN 63238 question first answered 01/07/2020 14:48:35 answering member 4668 label Biography information for Rachel Maclean
tabling member	1428 label Biography information for Sir Bill Wiggin

1216821

registered interest
date	23/06/2020
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 road accidents involving scooters there were in Herefordshire in 2019.
tabling member constituency	North Herefordshire
tabling member printed	Bill Wiggin
uin	63238
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/07/2020 answer text <p>Detailed final statistics on reported personal injury road accidents in Great Britain for 2019 will be published in September 2020. The latest annual published statistics are for 2018.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>The number of reported personal injury road accidents involving scooters and tractors in Herefordshire, in 2018 can be found in the below table:</p><p> </p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="2" rowspan="2"><p><strong>Reported personal injury road accidents, by road user type involved, Herefordshire, 2018</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Road user type involved</p></td><td><p>Number of accidents</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Scooter<sup>1</sup></p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Tractor<sup>2</sup></p></td><td><p>6</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2"><p>Source: DfT, STATS19</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" rowspan="2"><p>1. Scooters are not one of the designated vehicle types collected in a STATS19 reportable accidents. As such they can only be identified by using a free text field or where the vehicle type includes the word scooter. The only scooter type recorded in Herefordshire in 2018 is mobility scooter.</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" rowspan="2"><p>2. Tractors are not one of the designated vehicle types collected in a STATS19 reportable accidents. As such they can only be identified by linking to other data sources. Vehicles that have a valid registration mark are matched to the DVLA database, which allows additional information to be linked to the records kept by DfT. For this analysis DVLA body types included are agricultural tractor, station tractor and tractor excavator, and the only type excluded was tractor units used for articulated lorries. The only results in body type analysis recorded in Herefordshire in 2018 was for agricultural tractors.</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency Redditch answering member printed Rachel Maclean grouped question UIN 63237 question first answered 01/07/2020 14:48:35 answering member 4668 label Biography information for Rachel Maclean
tabling member	1428 label Biography information for Sir Bill Wiggin

1216822

registered interest
date	23/06/2020
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 road accidents involving electric vehicles there were in Herefordshire in 2019.
tabling member constituency	North Herefordshire
tabling member printed	Bill Wiggin
uin	63239
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/07/2020 answer text <p>Electric vehicles are not one of the designated vehicle types collected in a STATS19 reportable accidents. The only vehicle type that could be used in its entirety from STATS19 was ‘electric motorcycles’. Vehicles that had a valid registration mark were matched to the DVLA database, which allowed vehicles with ‘electric’ propulsion to be identified. All ‘mobility scooters’ were included in the analysis, as they are predominantly electric powered when they are without a registration marks. The remaining records were searched in a free text field for the word ‘electric’.</p><p> </p><p>Detailed final statistics on reported personal injury road accidents in Great Britain for 2019 will be published in September 2020. The latest annual published statistics are for 2018.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>There were 3 reported personal injury road accidents involving electric vehicles, in Herefordshire, in 2018 (of these one included a mobility scooter, one included an electric motorcycle and one included an electric car).</p> answering member constituency Redditch answering member printed Rachel Maclean question first answered 01/07/2020 14:57:30 answering member 4668 label Biography information for Rachel Maclean
tabling member	1428 label Biography information for Sir Bill Wiggin

1216845

registered interest
date	23/06/2020
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Driving Tests: Key Workers
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how may emergency driving tests were undertaken by essential workers during the suspension of regular tests as a result of the covid-19 outbreak.
tabling member constituency	Bristol South
tabling member printed	Karin Smyth
uin	63379
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/07/2020 answer text <p>Between the period 23 March 2020 and 19 June 2020, the Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency conducted 5,967 emergency tests for critical workers:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Test category</p></td><td><p>Tests conducted</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Motorcycle tests</p></td><td><p>124</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Vocational tests</p></td><td><p>584</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Car tests</p></td><td><p>5259</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>5967</p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency Redditch answering member printed Rachel Maclean question first answered 01/07/2020 15:49:28 answering member 4668 label Biography information for Rachel Maclean
tabling member	4444 label Biography information for Karin Smyth

1216960

registered interest
date	23/06/2020
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Railways: Retail Trade
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether rail operators outside London are required to (a) apply and (b) collect full rent from retail tenants.
tabling member constituency	Stockport
tabling member printed	Navendu Mishra
uin	63531
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/07/2020 answer text <p>In accordance with Franchise Agreements, as varied by the Emergency Measures Agreements, franchisees have responsibility to be Good and Efficient Operators.</p><p> </p><p>This involves collecting rental income from tenants under pre-existing contracts wherever feasible.</p> answering member constituency Daventry answering member printed Chris Heaton-Harris question first answered 01/07/2020 16:32:35 answering member 3977 label Biography information for Chris Heaton-Harris
tabling member	4811 label Biography information for Navendu Mishra

1216987

registered interest
date	23/06/2020
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Public Transport: Coronavirus
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps his Department is taking to support people who are deaf and rely on lipreading to communicate when travelling on public transport during the period where face coverings are mandatory on such transport during the covid-19 outbreak.
tabling member constituency	Hastings and Rye
tabling member printed	Sally-Ann Hart
uin	63547
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/07/2020 answer text <p>The Government is committed to ensuring deaf people can fully participate in society. We understand that mandatory use of face coverings will be difficult to adhere to for some. That is why there are exemptions to the rules for some disabled people and those with certain health conditions on public transport. You also do not need to wear a face covering if you are speaking with someone who relies on lip reading and facial expressions to communicate.</p><p> </p><p>We are working closely with transport operators to make sure that their staff and passengers are aware that not everyone is required to wear a face covering. Our Safer Transport guidance includes a clear reminder to transport operators of the need to provide staff with disability equality and awareness training. In addition to this, the guidance also specifically provides warnings that conventional coverings can prevent many disabled people from accessing oral information and instructions. Our guidance for operators and more information on face coverings can be found here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/coronavirus-covid-19-safer-transport-guidance-for-operators/coronavirus-covid-19-safer-transport-guidance-for-operators#face-coverings" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/coronavirus-covid-19-safer-transport-guidance-for-operators/coronavirus-covid-19-safer-transport-guidance-for-operators#face-coverings</a></p> answering member constituency Daventry answering member printed Chris Heaton-Harris question first answered 01/07/2020 16:43:41 answering member 3977 label Biography information for Chris Heaton-Harris
tabling member	4842 label Biography information for Sally-Ann Hart

1216993

registered interest
date	23/06/2020
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	High Speed 1 Line: Eastbourne and Hastings
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what progress has been made on proposals for the extension of the High-Speed 1 rail line from Ashford International Station to Hastings and Eastbourne via Rye.
tabling member constituency	Hastings and Rye
tabling member printed	Sally-Ann Hart
uin	63551
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/07/2020 answer text <p>We have approved the entry of the Kent and East Sussex Coastal Connectivity Scheme to formally enter the Government’s rail enhancements pipeline. The Department and East Sussex County Council are funding the production of a Strategic Outline Business Case, due by the end of 2020. As well as exploring options to create a new link to High Speed 1, this programme is considering options for a range of upgrades to the Marshlink line between Ashford and Hastings.</p> answering member constituency Daventry answering member printed Chris Heaton-Harris question first answered 01/07/2020 16:39:53 answering member 3977 label Biography information for Chris Heaton-Harris
tabling member	4842 label Biography information for Sally-Ann Hart

1217019

registered interest
date	23/06/2020
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Motor Vehicles: Noise
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what the results were from his Department's trials of roadside noise cameras in Hampshire and elsewhere; and what plans he has for the further deployment of such cameras.
tabling member constituency	East Hampshire
tabling member printed	Damian Hinds
uin	63308
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/07/2020 answer text <p>The acoustic camera trial is complete and preliminary indications are that the device can identify individual vehicles in certain circumstances and assign noise levels to them, but further development is needed to improve accuracy.</p><p> </p><p>The technology has the potential to identify excessively noisy vehicles; however, there are still difficulties in measuring noise in an uncontrolled environment to be overcome. As a result, further development and testing will be required before it could be recommended for wider scale roll out, especially if the camera is to be deployed in urban environments where complex traffic and environmental scenarios are common.</p> answering member constituency Redditch answering member printed Rachel Maclean question first answered 01/07/2020 16:27:12 answering member 4668 label Biography information for Rachel Maclean
tabling member	3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds

1217058

registered interest
date	23/06/2020
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Large Goods Vehicle Drivers: Coronavirus
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 ensure that roadside bathroom and changing facilities remain open to lorry drivers during the covid-19 outbreak.
tabling member constituency	Rother Valley
tabling member printed	Alexander Stafford
uin	63561
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/07/2020 answer text <p>We recognise the important contribution that delivery drivers make to the nation, the economy, and business. We are reviewing urgently how motorway service areas operate during the COVID-19 related disruption. They are likely to be operating differently and we want to ensure that they continue to offer support to industry and drivers.</p><p> </p><p>Motorway Service Areas (MSAs) are required by law to offer two hours free parking, which is essential to allow drivers to have breaks, and use the facilities. All MSAs in England are currently still open and we have asked MSA operators to redouble their efforts to ensure that users will be safe at facilities.</p><p> </p><p>We have also recently published guidance for Transport workers on gov.uk, which is updated as new advice becomes available. https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/covid-19-guidance-for-staff-in-the-transport-sector</p><p> </p><p>More widely, we are working with industry on the development of a charter that outlines businesses commitment to offering hygiene and toilet facilities to delivery drivers. This includes all delivery drivers, e.g. HGV drivers, couriers, and everything in between, but crucially only focuses on business properties, not private or residential property. The charter will be for businesses to sign up to. Signing up signifies that as an employer they meet Health and Safety Executive (HSE) guidance and offer these facilities to their delivery drivers. This charter follows changes to HSE guidance in November 2017 to say, “Drivers must have access to welfare facilities for visiting delivery drivers” and was introduced in response to a campaign by Truckers’ Toilets.</p><p> </p><p>In addition to the Charter, we have recently published a joint letter with the Health and Safety Executive on gov.uk, reminding businesses of their legal obligation to provide toilet and handwashing facilities to drivers visiting their premises as part of their work. This is available to download and print, via the following link. <a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/887867/dft-hse-letter-drivers-facilities.pdf" target="_blank">https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/887867/dft-hse-letter-drivers-facilities.pdf</a></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Redditch answering member printed Rachel Maclean question first answered 01/07/2020 15:52:23 answering member 4668 label Biography information for Rachel Maclean
tabling member	4866 label Biography information for Alexander Stafford