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1735154

registered interest
date	17/10/2024
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Parking: Pedestrian Areas
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether she plans to take steps to (a) allow local authorities with civil parking enforcement powers to enforce against unnecessary obstruction of the pavement and (b) enable highways authorities outside London to introduce a pavement parking prohibition.
tabling member constituency	Harborough, Oadby and Wigston
tabling member printed	Neil O'Brien
uin	9764
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/10/2024 answer text <p>In 2020, the Department undertook a public consultation on options for changing the way pavement parking is managed outside London. We are considering the views received to inform the Government’s next steps for pavement parking policy.</p><p> </p><p>The formal consultation response will be available to view in due course at: <a href="http://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/managing-pavement-parking" target="_blank">www.gov.uk/government/consultations/managing-pavement-parking</a>.</p><p><em> </em></p> answering member constituency Nottingham South answering member printed Lilian Greenwood question first answered 21/10/2024 10:26:12 answering member 4029 label Biography information for Lilian Greenwood
tabling member	4679 label Biography information for Neil O'Brien

1735260

registered interest
date	17/10/2024
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Road Works: Public Consultation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether she plans to publish the outcome of her Department's consultation entitled Street works: fines and lane rental surplus funds’ consultation, published on 15 January 2024.
tabling member constituency	Rossendale and Darwen
tabling member printed	Andy MacNae
uin	9838
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/10/2024 answer text <p>The Department plans to publish the Government’s response to the consultation in due course.</p> answering member constituency Nottingham South answering member printed Lilian Greenwood question first answered 21/10/2024 08:37:36 answering member 4029 label Biography information for Lilian Greenwood
tabling member	5134

1734758

registered interest
date	16/10/2024
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Driving Tests: Kent
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps she is taking to help reduce driving test waiting times in (a) Medway and (b) Kent.
tabling member constituency	Chatham and Aylesford
tabling member printed	Tristan Osborne
uin	9585
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/10/2024 answer text <p>The Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency’s (DVSA’s) main priority is to reduce car practical driving test waiting times, whilst upholding road safety standards.</p><p>DVSA continues to take measures to increase test availability. These include the recruitment of driving examiners (DE), conducting tests outside regular hours, including at weekends and on public holidays and buying back annual leave from driving examiners.</p><p>As part of its recruitment efforts in Kent, DVSA has made offers to 15 potential new DEs. DVSA launched its latest recruitment campaign in September 2024. From this campaign DVSA aims to recruit a further eight DEs in the Kent area.</p> answering member constituency Nottingham South answering member printed Lilian Greenwood question first answered 21/10/2024 10:24:25 answering member 4029 label Biography information for Lilian Greenwood
tabling member	5220

1734766

registered interest
date	16/10/2024
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Roads: Kent
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment she had made of the adequacy of the condition of local roads in Kent and Medway.
tabling member constituency	Chatham and Aylesford
tabling member printed	Tristan Osborne
uin	9586
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/10/2024 answer text <p><strong> </strong></p><p>The Government takes the condition of local roads very seriously and is committed to maintaining and renewing the local road network. Kent County Council and Medway Council are the local highway authorities for different parts of the Chatham and Aylesford constituency, and they are therefore responsible for the condition and maintenance of their local road networks. They will receive £38.3 million and £3.5 million respectively from this Department during 2024/25 to help them carry out their local highway maintenance responsibilities, and it is up to them to decide how that funding is used. For England as a whole, the Government has a commitment to enable local highway authorities to fix up to a million more potholes a year.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Nottingham South answering member printed Lilian Greenwood question first answered 21/10/2024 10:22:57 answering member 4029 label Biography information for Lilian Greenwood
tabling member	5220

1734922

registered interest
date	16/10/2024
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Cars: Motor Insurance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment she has made of the potential implications for her Department's polices of recent trends in levels of car insurance premiums.
tabling member constituency	Stirling and Strathallan
tabling member printed	Chris Kane
uin	9648
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/10/2024 answer text <p>This Government committed in its manifesto to tackle the high costs of motor insurance. To deliver on this commitment, the UK Government has formed a cross-government Taskforce on motor insurance, co-chaired by the Department for Transport and His Majesty’s Treasury, which met for the first time on 16th October.</p><p> </p><p>The Taskforce is comprised of ministers from relevant government departments and by the Financial Conduct Authority and Competition and Markets Authority. The Taskforce is supported by a separate Stakeholder Panel of industry experts representing the insurance, motor, and consumer sector.</p><p> </p><p>This Taskforce has a strategic remit to set the direction for UK Government policy, identifying short- and long-term actions for departments that may contribute to stabilising or reducing premiums, while maintaining appropriate levels of cover. It will evaluate the impact of increased insurance costs on consumers and the insurance industry, including how this impacts different demographics, geographies, and communities.</p> answering member constituency Nottingham South answering member printed Lilian Greenwood question first answered 21/10/2024 08:43:27 answering member 4029 label Biography information for Lilian Greenwood
tabling member	5155

1734277

registered interest
date	15/10/2024
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Road Traffic
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps she plans to take to help tackle congestion on roads.
tabling member constituency	Broxbourne
tabling member printed	Lewis Cocking
uin	9244
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/10/2024 answer text <p>This Government is committed to maintaining and renewing our road network so it can serve all road users, is safe, and tackles congestion. Traffic management on local roads is the responsibility of local traffic authorities who are best placed to understand local needs.</p><p> </p><p>Local traffic authorities are subject to the statutory network management duty which requires them to manage their roads to secure the ‘expeditious movement’ of all traffic including pedestrians, with a view to reducing congestion, and they have a wide range of tools already available to them to enable this.</p> answering member constituency Nottingham South answering member printed Lilian Greenwood question first answered 18/10/2024 10:35:32 answering member 4029 label Biography information for Lilian Greenwood
tabling member	5050

1734321

registered interest
date	15/10/2024
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Future Mobility Zones Fund
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what recent estimate she had made of when she will receive the results of the evaluation of future transport zones commissioned by her Department from the National Centre for Social Research.
tabling member constituency	East Londonderry
tabling member printed	Mr Gregory Campbell
uin	9131
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/10/2024 answer text <p>The Future Transport Zones (FTZ) programme is scheduled to conclude by the end of 2025. Monitoring and evaluation work has been ongoing alongside the programme since it began in 2020. We have recently published the first two waves of evaluation at a national level, delivered by the National Centre for Social Research on behalf of the Department for Transport, with a third wave to follow in 2025. The individual FTZ areas are also undertaking their own local evaluations.</p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency Wakefield and Rothwell answering member printed Simon Lightwood question first answered 21/10/2024 09:21:13 answering member 4943 label Biography information for Simon Lightwood
tabling member	1409 label Biography information for Mr Gregory Campbell

1734342

registered interest
date	15/10/2024
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Driving Tests: Applications
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what data her Department holds on the number of driving test bookings where the initial driving licence number on the booking form was subsequently changed in each month since January 2019.
tabling member constituency	North West Leicestershire
tabling member printed	Amanda Hack
uin	9305
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/10/2024 answer text <p>To ensure fairness for everyone wanting to book a practical driving test, the Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA) continues to work hard to combat the unscrupulous practice of reselling tests.</p><p> </p><p>DVSA is experiencing some of the highest demand for driving tests it has ever seen. This, and continued high waiting times for tests, has contributed to a major shift in customer booking behaviour. Many customers now book their car practical test far earlier in their learning journey, sometimes before they have even had a practical driving lesson.</p><p> </p><p>DVSA does not employ, encourage or licence anyone to provide a cancellation service checking for newly open slots. These apps or bots are not approved by the DVSA as they make it harder for candidates to get a test and can result in people paying more for a test than the official test fee of £62. Using such services also means that any changes to the test may not necessarily be relayed to the candidate.</p><p> </p><p>The attached spreadsheet shows the number and percentage of practical driving test bookings where the initial test candidate’s driving licence number was subsequently changed to a different driving test candidate’s licence number in each month since January 2019.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Nottingham South answering member printed Lilian Greenwood grouped question UIN 9306 question first answered 21/10/2024 10:02:38 answering member 4029 label Biography information for Lilian Greenwood attachment 1 file name Copy of Attachment for PQ's 9305 & 9306 driving tests.xlsx title Driving Test Bookings
tabling member	5149

1734343

registered interest
date	15/10/2024
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Driving Tests: Applications
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what data her Department holds on the percentage of driving test bookings where the initial driving licence number on the booking form was subsequently changed in each month since January 2019.
tabling member constituency	North West Leicestershire
tabling member printed	Amanda Hack
uin	9306
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/10/2024 answer text <p>To ensure fairness for everyone wanting to book a practical driving test, the Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA) continues to work hard to combat the unscrupulous practice of reselling tests.</p><p> </p><p>DVSA is experiencing some of the highest demand for driving tests it has ever seen. This, and continued high waiting times for tests, has contributed to a major shift in customer booking behaviour. Many customers now book their car practical test far earlier in their learning journey, sometimes before they have even had a practical driving lesson.</p><p> </p><p>DVSA does not employ, encourage or licence anyone to provide a cancellation service checking for newly open slots. These apps or bots are not approved by the DVSA as they make it harder for candidates to get a test and can result in people paying more for a test than the official test fee of £62. Using such services also means that any changes to the test may not necessarily be relayed to the candidate.</p><p> </p><p>The attached spreadsheet shows the number and percentage of practical driving test bookings where the initial test candidate’s driving licence number was subsequently changed to a different driving test candidate’s licence number in each month since January 2019.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Nottingham South answering member printed Lilian Greenwood grouped question UIN 9305 question first answered 21/10/2024 10:02:38 answering member 4029 label Biography information for Lilian Greenwood attachment 1 file name Copy of Attachment for PQ's 9305 & 9306 driving tests.xlsx title Driving Test Bookings
tabling member	5149

1734361

registered interest
date	15/10/2024
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Bus Services: Fares
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if she will make it her policy to extend the £2 bus fare cap beyond 31 December 2024.
tabling member constituency	Beverley and Holderness
tabling member printed	Graham Stuart
uin	9149
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/10/2024 answer text <p>Delivering reliable and affordable public transport services for passengers is one of the government’s top priorities as we know how important this is for passengers and for local growth. The Department for Transport is looking at the future of the £2 fare cap as a matter of urgency and is considering the most appropriate and affordable approach for the future of the scheme.</p> answering member constituency Wakefield and Rothwell answering member printed Simon Lightwood question first answered 21/10/2024 08:32:35 answering member 4943 label Biography information for Simon Lightwood
tabling member	1482 label Biography information for Graham Stuart