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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

1041601

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	Cycling and Walking: Havering
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether Havering Borough is planned to receive any funding from central government to implement the measures in the Local Cycling and Walking Infrastructure Plan.
tabling member constituency	Romford
tabling member printed	Andrew Rosindell
uin	208804
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/01/2019 answer text <p>In London, transport is the responsibility of the Mayor and Transport for London. This includes cycling, and extends to deciding which cycle schemes to develop and promote.</p><p> </p><p>The Secretary of State for Transport thus has no plans to issue funding to the borough for implementation of Local Cycling and Walking Infrastructure Plans.</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 22/01/2019 16:30:30 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	1447 label Biography information for Andrew Rosindell

1041615

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	Driving: Diabetes
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will include representatives from (a) the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence, (b) the Department of Health and Social Care and (c) NHS England on his Honorary Medical Advisory Panel on driving and diabetes mellitus; and what steps he has taken to ensure that the Panel routinely seeks advice from those bodies
tabling member constituency	Newton Abbot
tabling member printed	Anne Marie Morris
uin	208871
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/01/2019 answer text <p>The membership of the panel is kept under review to ensure that it is fully represented by members with a wide range of skills and expertise in Diabetes Mellitus.</p><p> </p><p>The panel routinely uses the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence guidelines to help inform the medical standards of fitness to drive and often invites guest speakers and representatives from other medical organisations to obtain more information on a specific topic.</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 23/01/2019 10:59:20 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	4249 label Biography information for Anne Marie Morris

1041616

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	Driving: Diabetes
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 merits of transferring responsibility for (a) the setting of standards for drivers with diabetes mellitus and (b) the operation of the Honorary Medical Advisory Panel on driving and diabetes mellitus to the Department of Health and Social Care.
tabling member constituency	Newton Abbot
tabling member printed	Anne Marie Morris
uin	208872
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/01/2019 answer text <p>There are no plans to transfer the operation of the Medical Advisory Panel on driving and diabetes, or any of the other medical panels for driving, to the Department of Health and Social Care. The Department for Transport sets the medical standards for drivers, and the Panel considers the effects of this and other conditions on road safety, in order to ensure that motorists are licensed appropriately.</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 23/01/2019 11:18:08 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	4249 label Biography information for Anne Marie Morris

1041641

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	Cycling and Walking: Finance
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 10 January 2019 to Question 205816 on walking, if he will provide a breakdown of the funding that is projected to be spent by his Department on (a) cycling and (b) walking in each year on each budget line from the start of this Parliament to 2021.
tabling member constituency	Brentford and Isleworth
tabling member printed	Ruth Cadbury
uin	208885
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/01/2019 answer text <p>The Government’s Cycling and Walking Investment Strategy (CWIS), published in April 2017, identified £1.2 billion of funding available for cycling and walking projects over the period 2016-21. Since then, additional funding streams have been made available, including the Transforming Cities Fund, Clean Air Fund, Future High Streets Fund and Housing Infrastructure Fund. As a result, almost £2bn of funding is now projected to be invested in cycling and walking projects between 2016/17 to 2020/21 from a range of funding programmes across Government.</p><p> </p><p>The Government response to the CWIS Safety Review, published in November 2018, gave further details, including a year by year breakdown of the funding projected for cycling and walking over the period to 2021. The Department is unable to provide a detailed breakdown of funding between cycling and walking projects because in some cases funding allocations are still to be confirmed by the relevant Government Department or local body, and in practice many projects support both cycling and walking. Further investment decisions will also be shaped by the forthcoming Spending Review.</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 21/01/2019 17:05:02 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	4389 label Biography information for Ruth Cadbury

1041645

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	Motorways: Accidents
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what comparative assessment his Department has made of the prevalence of traffic incident’s on all-lane running motorways and motorways with hard-shoulders; and will he make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Hemel Hempstead
tabling member printed	Sir Mike Penning
uin	208815
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/01/2019 answer text <p>Highway England have studied the first two completed All Lane Running schemes on the M25 where the hard shoulder was permanently converted to a running lane. These reviews found that the schemes have delivered an overall 27% safety improvement.</p><p> </p><p>Highways England have always been clear that the benefits of smart motorways will not be delivered at the expense of safety and each smart motorway scheme must meet a strict safety objective, which is to be at least as safe as before the smart motorway was introduced.</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 23/01/2019 10:47:13 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning

1041646

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	Road Traffic Offences: Motorways
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what (a) research and (b) assessment his Department has undertaken into trends in the level of non-compliance on Smart Motorways.
tabling member constituency	Hemel Hempstead
tabling member printed	Sir Mike Penning
uin	208816
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/01/2019 answer text <p>Highways England published three-year monitoring reports for the M25 junctions 5-7 and 23-27 All Lane Running schemes on 16<sup>th</sup> July 2018, which included compliance information. They indicate an overall improvement in the red-X compliance rate on both schemes between the three-year and one-year reports.</p><p> </p><p>The majority of drivers obey red-X signals. Highways England continue to work closely with the Police to issue warning letters to drivers who fail to comply with a red-X, as well as running a range of driver information campaigns.</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 23/01/2019 11:10:53 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning

1041647

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	Road Traffic Offences: Motorways
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether his Department has set a minimum acceptable level red-X non-compliance on smart motorways.
tabling member constituency	Hemel Hempstead
tabling member printed	Sir Mike Penning
uin	208817
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/01/2019 answer text <p>There is no acceptable level of red-X non-compliance and Highways England are working to reduce non-compliance to as low a level as possible.</p><p>In partnership with the Police, Highways England have issued over 160,000 formal warning letters across different Smart Motorway locations to drivers identified as wrongly using the hard shoulder or contravening red-X signals. Their judgement is that these letters are having a positive effect, with repeat offences declining significantly.</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 23/01/2019 10:38:33 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning

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