May 2022
Steve Reed (Lab)
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what estimate he has made of the number of subsequent offences committed by defendants on bail while awaiting trial for dangerous driving in each police force area in each year since 2017.
Matthew Offord (Con)
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will take steps to ensure an integrated transport system across the whole of England.
Adam Afriyie (Con)
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that road users are aware of the recent changes to the Highway Code.
Fleur Anderson (Lab)
I look to the transport Bill to provide for far better connection between cycling and trains, and cycling and buses. On the continent, there are many buses where people can put their bikes at the front. They can cycle up, then take the bus, enabling them to make longer journeys and meaning that those who would otherwise need to use a car do not have to. That should also apply to trains: it should be far easier to take a bike on the train. There should be many more spaces for bikes and a much easier booking system. That would transform urban transport in areas such as Roehampton, which has poor transport links.
Rachael Maskell (Lab)
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has had discussions with the Secretary of State for Transport on including active travel within his proposals for social prescribing.
Selaine Saxby (Con)
Will my hon. Friend detail how remote rural constituencies like mine will benefit from improvements to local transport services when our sparse population means that so many transport solutions are not commercially viable?
Chi Onwurah (Lab)
On Saturday, along with over 100 others, I took part in Newcastle’s Kidical mass cycle, and parents raised with me the challenges of getting kids to cycle to school and, related to that, the impact on air quality of cars idling outside schools. I got my cycling proficiency from Hill View Junior School. What are the Government doing to help children to learn to cycle, acquire cycles, and stop cars idling outside schools?
Sarah Olney (Lib Dem)
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will make it his policy not to increase the maximum weight of lorries allowed on UK roads beyond 44 tonnes.
Lord Berkeley (Lab)
To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether they will publish the evidence to support their decision to reject the Commons Transport Select Committee’s recommendation to explore options for extending the ban on driving while using a mobile phone to include the use of hands-free devices, as made in its report, Road safety: driving while using a mobile phone (12th Report, Session 2019–21, HC Paper 237).
Stephanie Peacock (Lab)
Four years ago, Jackie Wileman was tragically killed on her daily walk by four men joyriding a stolen HGV around Barnsley. The men responsible had 100 convictions between them. I pay tribute to Jackie’s brother, Johnny Wood, for his campaign to increase sentences for causing death by dangerous driving, and I welcome the change in the law, but Johnny has now been informed that one of the offenders may shortly be released from prison on temporary licence without the proper process being followed. Will the Secretary of State meet Johnny and me to discuss what more can be done to support victims?
Lord Berkeley (Lab)
To ask Her Majesty’s Government what evidence they hold, or what estimates they have made, of the numbers of drivers (1) arrested for motoring offences, or (2) who are involved in (a) collisions, (b) serious collisions, or (c) fatal collisions, who were using hands-free mobile phone devices at the time of the offence or collision.
Emma Hardy (Lab)
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, when he plans to publish the results of his Department’s consultation on Managing pavement parking, which closed on 22 November 2020.
Mike Amesbury (Lab)
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to the Transport Bill, what assessment his Department has made of whether local authorities require powers to tackle pavement parking; and whether he plans to include provisions on pavement parking in that bill.
Caroline Lucas (Green)
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to the Answer of 19 April 2022 to Question 151053, on Local Transport Plans: Carbon Emissions, whether he plans to consult on the additional guidance on quantifiable carbon reductions at the same time as he consults on the guidance for Local Transport Plans.
Navendu Mishra (Lab)
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what funding his Department provides for small businesses on employer-led schemes that encourage staff to cycle or walk to work.
Rachael Maskell (Lab)
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether his Department has committed a specific amount of funding for campaigns aimed at encouraging walking as a mode of transport.
Rachael Maskell (Lab)
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps the Government is taking to encourage the general public to increase walking; and whether he has any targets for walking.
Rachael Maskell (Lab)
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, following the institution of Active Travel England, what discussions he has had with representatives of local authorities on the expertise required to implement Gear Change and the Cycling and Walking Investment Strategy.
Damien Moore (Con)
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what recent assessment his Department has made the adequacy of pavement parking legislation.