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1366273

registered interest
date	04/11/2021
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Trailers: Driving Licences
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to their announcement that UK drivers who passed their test after 1 January 1997 will no longer be required to take a specialist test to tow a trailer of up to 3,500 kilograms, what were the reasons for this change; and what assessment have they made of the safety implications of the change.
tabling member printed	Lord Berkeley
uin	HL3712
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/11/2021 answer text <p>In September, the Government implemented changes to streamline the HGV driver testing process and free up more examiner capacity. With regards to the removal of B+E requirement, car drivers will no longer need to take another test to tow a trailer or caravan which will allow around 30,000 extra HGV driving tests to be conducted every year.</p><p>Road safety remains of paramount importance, and we are already working with training providers developing options for an industry-led accreditation scheme for trailer training. This could offer a standardised training and assessment approach for any driver wishing to tow a trailer, keeping driving and towing skills current and of a high standard. There is insufficient evidence to demonstrate that competence and skills will worsen if drivers do not take a statutory test to tow a trailer.</p> answering member printed Baroness Vere of Norbiton question first answered 09/11/2021 12:47:19 answering member 4580 label Biography information for Baroness Vere of Norbiton
tabling member	3526 label Biography information for Lord Berkeley

1366285

registered interest
date	04/11/2021
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	A303: Stonehenge
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to ease any traffic congestion on the A303 near Stonehenge.
tabling member printed	Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth
uin	HL3724
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/11/2021 answer text <p>The Roads Investment Strategy 2 reflects this Government’s commitment to upgrading the A303/A358 corridor as a priority for improving connections between the South-West and London and the South-East. The delivery of the corridor is a part of a long-term aim to improve inter- and intra-regional connectivity, by providing a second reliable high-performing connection between the South-West and the South-East, in addition to the M4/M5.</p><p>Following an Order of the High Court made on 30 July 2021, the Secretary of State's decision dated 12 November 2020 to grant development consent for the application by Highways England for the proposed A303 Amesbury to Berwick Down (Stonehenge) scheme has been quashed. The Secretary of State must now re-determine that application.</p><p>As a live planning case, it would not be appropriate for the Department to comment further on the scheme at this time.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Vere of Norbiton question first answered 09/11/2021 12:46:21 answering member 4580 label Biography information for Baroness Vere of Norbiton
tabling member	4282 label Biography information for Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth

1365245

registered interest
date	02/11/2021
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Railways: Fares
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what estimate they have made of the yield resulting from the last regulated increase in rail fares; and what assessment they have made of this estimate.
tabling member printed	Lord Bradshaw
uin	HL3608
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/11/2021 answer text <p>No assessment has been made of the proportion of industry revenues which can be attributable to the March 2021 fares changes. While fares changes affect total industry revenue there are also a number of other impacts that affect it, including most notably at the moment the pandemic’s impact on passenger travel.</p><p> </p><p>The department has not conducted any studies following the fares changes in March 2021 to separate out the impact of these changes from other factors influencing industry revenues.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Vere of Norbiton question first answered 08/11/2021 12:23:42 answering member 4580 label Biography information for Baroness Vere of Norbiton
tabling member	2483 label Biography information for Lord Bradshaw

1365246

registered interest
date	02/11/2021
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Railways: Season Tickets
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what plans they have to revisit the flexible season ticket to attract more potential rail travellers.
tabling member printed	Lord Bradshaw
uin	HL3609
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/11/2021 answer text <p>The flexible season ticket is a national product, priced to provide better value and convenience for commuters travelling two to three days a week. For most 2 and 3 day a week commuters, the flexible season ticket offers savings against buying daily tickets or traditional seasons, provided that they are following this commuting pattern. For those with different commuting patterns, existing tickets such as traditional seasons or dailies may be the best choice.</p><p> </p><p>The Department will conduct a 12-month review of the flexible season tickets to evaluate their impact. We expect the review to report in the Summer of 2022.</p><p> </p><p>Independent research conducted by Transport Focus published on 3 November indicates that flexible season tickets have been well received among commuters on their Transport User Panel. More than one in three passengers surveyed who expected to commute two or three days per week said they would use the flexi season at least to some extent.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Vere of Norbiton question first answered 08/11/2021 12:55:02 answering member 4580 label Biography information for Baroness Vere of Norbiton
tabling member	2483 label Biography information for Lord Bradshaw

1365248

registered interest
date	02/11/2021
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Railways
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what plans they have to make rail travel at the weekends more attractive.
tabling member printed	Lord Bradshaw
uin	HL3611
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/11/2021 answer text <p>The rail leisure market is showing strong levels of recovery post-COVID, showing that off-peak and weekend travel remains highly attractive to passengers.</p><p> </p><p>There are also a number of railcards available that offer discounts against most rail fares, valid for weekend travel. The Department has saved a generation of passengers at least a third off their fares through the 16-17 and 26-30 railcards and went even further in November 2020 by extending these savings to former servicemen and women through a new Veterans Railcard. Industry partners are collaborating to develop attractive timetables that are reliable, deliver excellent performance for passengers, and offer good value for the taxpayer.</p> answering member printed Baroness Vere of Norbiton question first answered 08/11/2021 12:23:03 answering member 4580 label Biography information for Baroness Vere of Norbiton
tabling member	2483 label Biography information for Lord Bradshaw

1365257

registered interest
date	02/11/2021
answering body	The Senior Deputy Speaker
answering dept id	204
answering dept short name
answering dept sort name	Senior Deputy Speaker (HoL)
hansard heading	Peers: Allowances
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask the Senior Deputy Speaker what was the value of allowances for (1) Day Subsistence, (2) Overnight Subsistence, and (3) Office Costs, when they were last available to Peers; and what would be the value of those allowances today if they had been uprated in line with inflation.
tabling member printed	Lord Foulkes of Cumnock
uin	HL3621
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/11/2021 answer text <p>These allowances were last available to Members in 2010 when they were valued as follows:</p><p>• Day Subsistence - £86.50</p><p>• Overnight Subsistence – £174.00</p><p>• Office costs – £75.00</p><p>Applying the relevant rates of inflation the values today would be:</p><p>• Day Subsistence - £123.50</p><p>• Overnight Subsistence – £249.00</p><p>• Office costs – £108.00</p> answering member printed Lord Gardiner of Kimble question first answered 09/11/2021 12:35:25 answering member 4161 label Biography information for Lord Gardiner of Kimble
tabling member	579 label Biography information for Lord Foulkes of Cumnock

1365258

registered interest
date	02/11/2021
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Motorways
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what plans they have for the future of smart motorways.
tabling member printed	Lord Goodlad
uin	HL3625
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/11/2021 answer text <p>We welcome the Transport Committee’s report <em>Rollout and safety of smart motorways</em>, published on 2 November 2021. We will start work immediately on considering its recommendations in detail, providing a formal response in due course. This is a serious piece of work which we will engage with closely in the months ahead.</p><p /><p>We are pleased that the Transport Committee recognises that reinstating the hard shoulder on all all-lane running motorways could put more drivers and passengers at risk of death and serious injury and that we are right to focus on upgrading their safety, as the Secretary of State committed to doing when he became Transport Secretary.</p><p /><p>The Transport Secretary is committed to making smart motorways as safe as possible and has committed £500 million on an 18-point Action Plan which includes the faster rollout of Stopped Vehicle Detection technology.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Vere of Norbiton question first answered 08/11/2021 12:08:55 answering member 4580 label Biography information for Baroness Vere of Norbiton
tabling member	670 label Biography information for Lord Goodlad

1365288

registered interest
date	02/11/2021
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Motorways: Safety
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what plans they have to stop any further rollout of smart motorways until five years of safety data is available and improvements can be independently evaluated.
tabling member printed	Lord Taylor of Warwick
uin	HL3656
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/11/2021 answer text <p>We welcome the Transport Committee’s report <em>Rollout and safety of smart motorways</em>, published on 2 November 2021. We will start work immediately on considering its recommendations in detail, providing a formal response in due course. This is a serious piece of work which we will engage with closely in the months ahead.</p><p /><p>We are pleased that the Transport Committee recognises that reinstating the hard shoulder on all all-lane running motorways could put more drivers and passengers at risk of death and serious injury and that we are right to focus on upgrading their safety, as the Secretary of State committed to doing when he became Transport Secretary.</p><p /><p>The Transport Secretary is committed to making smart motorways as safe as possible and has committed £500 million on an 18-point Action Plan which includes the faster rollout of Stopped Vehicle Detection technology.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Vere of Norbiton question first answered 08/11/2021 12:22:18 answering member 4580 label Biography information for Baroness Vere of Norbiton
tabling member	1796 label Biography information for Lord Taylor of Warwick

1364793

registered interest
date	01/11/2021
answering body	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
answering dept id	208
answering dept short name	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
answering dept sort name	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
hansard heading	Tigray: Refugees
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of reports that 9,000 Eritrean refugees living in refugee camps in Tigray have been forcibly returned to Eritrea; what discussions they have had with the government of Ethiopia about its obligations under the Refugee Convention; and when those discussions took place.
tabling member printed	Lord Alton of Liverpool
uin	HL3547
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/11/2021 answer text <p>We are concerned at reports of human rights violations and abuses against Eritrean refugees in Tigray by the Eritrean and Tigrayan forces from November to December 2020, including the forced repatriation of refugees to Eritrea. The British Ambassador in Eritrea raised our concerns with the Eritrean Foreign Minister in December 2020, who denied that Eritrean forces had forcibly returned Eritrean refugees to Eritrea. In March, the former Minister for Africa made clear to the Eritrean Ambassador the UK's concern about reports of human rights violations by all parties to the conflict and the need for the withdrawal of Eritrean troops from Tigray. The Minister for Africa also raised these issues in her first meeting with the Ethiopian Ambassador on 22 September.</p><p>The report by the joint UN Office for the High Commissioner for Human Rights and Ethiopian Human Rights Commission investigation, published on 3 November, concludes that &quot;There are reasonable grounds to believe that parties to the conflict have violated the rights of refugees as stipulated under international human rights law, humanitarian law, refugee law, and national laws. It is essential that all those responsible for human rights violations and abuses be held to account.</p><p>We remain extremely concerned that humanitarian agencies, including the UN High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR), do not have access to refugee camps in Tigray, meaning our understanding of the humanitarian and protection context in camps and refugee hosting areas is limited. It is the responsibility of the host state to protect refugees on their territory and this was acknowledged by the Government of Ethiopia when we raised the matter.</p><p>There are numerous shocking reports of atrocities committed by Eritrean forces in Tigray, and their continued presence is fueling insecurity. These forces must leave Ethiopia immediately. We continue to press hard for this commitment to be delivered.</p> answering member printed Lord Goldsmith of Richmond Park question first answered 09/11/2021 12:42:04 answering member 4062 label Biography information for Lord Goldsmith of Richmond Park
tabling member	738 label Biography information for Lord Alton of Liverpool

1364796

registered interest
date	01/11/2021
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Electric Scooters: Accidents
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government how many (1) deaths and (2) injuries can be attributed to e-scooters in England, broken down by whether the accident was caused by (a) the users of e-scooters, (b) pedestrians, and (c) others.
tabling member printed	Lord Blencathra
uin	HL3549
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/11/2021 answer text <p>There was 1 fatality, and 473 injured casualties in reported road accidents involving at least one e-scooter vehicle in England in 2020.</p><p>The Department does not hold information which can be used to assign blame for the cause of the accident onto a specific road user or vehicle.</p> answering member printed Baroness Vere of Norbiton question first answered 09/11/2021 12:45:54 answering member 4580 label Biography information for Baroness Vere of Norbiton
tabling member	497 label Biography information for Lord Blencathra