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1779571

registered interest
date	27/02/2025
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Great British Railways
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what role they envisage for the Rail Safety and Standards Board within the new railway structure with Great British Railways.
tabling member printed	Lord Berkeley
uin	HL5344
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/03/2025 answer text <p>The independent Rail Safety and Standards Board acts as the safety, standards and research body for Great Britain’s rail network. We will review its exact remit to ensure it is able to fulfil a similar role within the new model.</p> answering member printed Lord Hendy of Richmond Hill question first answered 04/03/2025 12:53:04 answering member 4972 label Biography information for Lord Hendy of Richmond Hill
tabling member	3526 label Biography information for Lord Berkeley

1779594

registered interest
date	27/02/2025
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Cycling: Children
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the report by Sustrans Children's Walking and Cycling Index 2024, published 26 February, what steps they are taking to address the gender divide in children cycling.
tabling member printed	Baroness Pidgeon
uin	HL5367
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/03/2025 answer text <p>The Government agrees that it is important to include a wide-range of groups in the policy making process, including children. On 12 February, Active Travel England published guidance to help councils engage with local communities in the development of new walking and cycling schemes. This includes reference to engaging with children in the design process of active travel schemes near schools.</p><p> </p><p>Active Travel England supports a range of programmes to help enable more active travel for children, including Living Street’s Walk to School Outreach, Modeshift STARS and Bikeability cycle training.</p><p> </p><p>The Government understands that perceived safety can be a barrier to more people choosing to walk, wheel or cycle. This is why the Department has recently announced almost £300 million of funding for active travel in 2024/5 and 2025/6. The Department has also published guidance for local authorities on implementing School Streets, which help improve the safety of roads outside schools for cycling.</p> answering member printed Lord Hendy of Richmond Hill grouped question UIN HL5368 question first answered 04/03/2025 12:56:03 answering member 4972 label Biography information for Lord Hendy of Richmond Hill
tabling member	5366 label Biography information for Baroness Pidgeon

1779595

registered interest
date	27/02/2025
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Travel: Children
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the report by Sustrans Children's Walking and Cycling Index 2024, published 26 February, what assessment they have made of the potential merits of including children in policy-making relating to travel.
tabling member printed	Baroness Pidgeon
uin	HL5368
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/03/2025 answer text <p>The Government agrees that it is important to include a wide-range of groups in the policy making process, including children. On 12 February, Active Travel England published guidance to help councils engage with local communities in the development of new walking and cycling schemes. This includes reference to engaging with children in the design process of active travel schemes near schools.</p><p> </p><p>Active Travel England supports a range of programmes to help enable more active travel for children, including Living Street’s Walk to School Outreach, Modeshift STARS and Bikeability cycle training.</p><p> </p><p>The Government understands that perceived safety can be a barrier to more people choosing to walk, wheel or cycle. This is why the Department has recently announced almost £300 million of funding for active travel in 2024/5 and 2025/6. The Department has also published guidance for local authorities on implementing School Streets, which help improve the safety of roads outside schools for cycling.</p> answering member printed Lord Hendy of Richmond Hill grouped question UIN HL5367 question first answered 04/03/2025 12:56:03 answering member 4972 label Biography information for Lord Hendy of Richmond Hill
tabling member	5366 label Biography information for Baroness Pidgeon

1779078

registered interest
date	26/02/2025
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Roads: Litter
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what steps they take to ensure that local authorities clear litter on A roads within responsibility of those local authorities, and whether they keep this under review.
tabling member printed	Lord Black of Brentwood
uin	HL5293
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/03/2025 answer text <p>Roadside litter is not only unsightly but can be a threat to the environment. Litter-picking also diverts resources away from other essential road maintenance activities. The responsibility for clearing highway litter and sweeping carriageways is governed by the Environmental Protection Act 1990. Each individual highway authority is responsible for clearing litter on the roads for which it is responsible, including local authority A roads.</p><p> </p><p>Funding for local highway authorities to support them in the delivery of their highway maintenance responsibilities is provided by both the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (for revenue-funded operations including litter-picking) and by the Department for Transport (for capital-funded operations such as roads resurfacing). The Government has already announced that the Local Government Finance Settlement for the 2025/26 financial year will grant councils in England access to over £69 billion in funding, a 6.8% cash-terms increase on 2024/25. The Department for Transport has also announced a £500 million funding uplift for local highway authorities for the 2025/26 financial year which will enable them to deliver improvements to the condition of local highways.</p> answering member printed Lord Hendy of Richmond Hill question first answered 05/03/2025 15:23:17 answering member 4972 label Biography information for Lord Hendy of Richmond Hill
tabling member	4171 label Biography information for Lord Black of Brentwood

1779105

registered interest
date	26/02/2025
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	China: Electric Vehicles
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government whether there are any restrictions being put in place to prevent Chinese-manufactured electric vehicles from accessing any critical infrastructure.
tabling member printed	Lord Robathan
uin	HL5320
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/03/2025 answer text <p>The Government takes national security extremely seriously and the Department works closely with the transport sector and other agencies such as the National Protective Security Authority and the National Cyber Security Centre to respond to any security vulnerabilities.  This includes ensuring critical infrastructure is secure and resilient, and risks are managed proportionately.</p> answering member printed Lord Hendy of Richmond Hill question first answered 04/03/2025 12:52:31 answering member 4972 label Biography information for Lord Hendy of Richmond Hill
tabling member	334 label Biography information for Lord Robathan

1778612

registered interest
date	25/02/2025
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Driving Licences
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government how many full driving licences are held in the UK.
tabling member printed	Lord Spellar
uin	HL5281
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/03/2025 answer text <p>The latest information available shows that on 15 February, there were 42,549,993 driving licence records held by the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency where the licence holder has full driving entitlement.</p><p> </p><p>These figures are for driving licence holders in Great Britain only. Driver licensing is a devolved matter in Northern Ireland.</p> answering member printed Lord Hendy of Richmond Hill question first answered 04/03/2025 12:52:06 answering member 4972 label Biography information for Lord Hendy of Richmond Hill
tabling member	318 label Biography information for Lord Spellar

1778633

registered interest
date	25/02/2025
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Large Goods Vehicles: Electric Vehicles
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what plans they have to support electronic heavy goods vehicles and their infrastructure; and whether their plans include amendments to planning policy as part of the new National Planning Policy Framework.
tabling member printed	Baroness Pidgeon
uin	HL5267
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/03/2025 answer text <p>The Government is supporting the decarbonisation of the heavy goods vehicle (HGV) sector through the Plug-in Truck Grant, which provides a contribution to the upfront purchase costs of zero emission vehicles until at least the end of the current financial year, as well as the up-to-£200m zero emission HGV and Infrastructure Demonstrator (ZEHID) programme, which will deploy hundreds of zero emission HGVs and their associated recharging and refuelling sites by March 2026.</p><p> </p><p>The Government also knows planning is key to the roll out of EV charging infrastructure and is working to ensure the system supports installations. The National Planning Policy Framework sets out policies aimed at realising opportunities from changing transport technology. It encourages local authorities to identify appropriate sites for freight and logistics, consider charging needs when shaping parking policies, and ensure new developments are designed to support vehicle charging. The Government remains committed to further planning reform and intends to consult on national policy related to decision making in spring 2025.</p> answering member printed Lord Hendy of Richmond Hill question first answered 06/03/2025 11:54:40 answering member 4972 label Biography information for Lord Hendy of Richmond Hill
tabling member	5366 label Biography information for Baroness Pidgeon

1777983

registered interest
date	24/02/2025
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Manchester Airport: Railways
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Hendy of Richmond Hill on 18 February (HL4719), whether they were (1) part of the Manchester Task Force, or (2) consulted by them, with regards to the withdrawal of the direct Sheffield to Manchester Airport train; and if so, whether they supported the decision.
tabling member printed	Lord Scriven
uin	HL5190
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/03/2025 answer text <p>The Manchester Task Force (MTF) began meeting in February 2020, made up of Department for Transport, Network Rail, train operators, Rail North Partnership, Transport for the North and Transport for Greater Manchester. Through gathering evidence, developing options and publicly consulting, the task force identified a range of short and long-term actions to improve the performance of the railway in Manchester/across the North and support future growth in passengers.</p><p> </p><p>The task force identified the Sheffield-Manchester Airport service, which reversed at Manchester Piccadilly, consuming two train paths in each direction, as one of the worst performing, with a significant impact on delays across the network.</p><p> </p><p>The new timetable developed by MTF has delivered improvements in reliability of around 30 per cent, and the task force concept is now being used to resolve issues on the East Coast main line. As new infrastructure is realised and longer trains allow for a greater capacity with less congestion, we will look at services that could be reintroduced, possibly including direct services from Sheffield to the Airport, although there could be other towns and cities making a case for their pre-2022 direct connections to be restored as well.</p> answering member printed Lord Hendy of Richmond Hill question first answered 04/03/2025 12:38:52 answering member 4972 label Biography information for Lord Hendy of Richmond Hill
tabling member	4333 label Biography information for Lord Scriven

1778004

registered interest
date	24/02/2025
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Crossrail 2 Line
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Hendy of Richmond Hill on 13 February (HL5039), what is the latest status of any revisions to the Crossrail 2 safeguarded route proposed by Transport for London in 2020 which are yet to be approved; and what is the timescale and next steps to complete the safeguarding of such revisions.
tabling member printed	Baroness Pidgeon
uin	HL5172
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/03/2025 answer text <p>As previously advised, development of Crossrail 2 was paused in 2020. Whilst the department currently has no plans to move forward with Crossrail 2, the route remains safeguarded to protect it from conflicting development and officials from my department regularly have discussions with Transport for London regarding this scheme and their other transport priorities.</p> answering member printed Lord Hendy of Richmond Hill question first answered 04/03/2025 12:39:43 answering member 4972 label Biography information for Lord Hendy of Richmond Hill
tabling member	5366 label Biography information for Baroness Pidgeon

1778008

registered interest
date	24/02/2025
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Driving Licences
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government how many driving licences have been issued to individuals without an official proof of identity.
tabling member printed	Lord Sikka
uin	HL5193
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/03/2025 answer text <p>Since they were introduced in 1998, all applicants for a first photocard driving licence have been required to provide official evidence of identity.</p> answering member printed Lord Hendy of Richmond Hill question first answered 04/03/2025 14:48:34 answering member 4972 label Biography information for Lord Hendy of Richmond Hill
tabling member	4885 label Biography information for Lord Sikka