November 2016
PQ from Viscount Simon
To ask Her Majesty’s Government what action they are taking to encourage drivers to have their sight checked regularly in the interest of road safety.
PQ from Jim Shannon (DUP)
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what plans his Department has to monitor the effect of changes to the drink-driving limit in Northern Ireland due to come into force in 2017.
PQ from Lord Blencathra (Con)
To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon on 17 June (HL475), what is the justification for requiring self-employed vehicle courier drivers to have third party insurance but not cyclist couriers.
PQ from Lord Bradshaw (Lib Dem)
To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon on 24 October (HL2259), what is their assessment of the views of Brake that regular eye tests for drivers could cut the number of casualties on roads, and whether they will reconsider using variable message signs on motorways and other major roads as a contribution to reducing road accidents.
PQ from Jim Fitzpatrick (Lab)
Recently published annual figures for those killed or seriously injured on our roads at the end of the second quarter of 2016 show a 3% increase on last year. For the third year running, deaths are higher than they were the year before and went up by 2% last year and this year. Thirty deaths may not sound that many out of 1,800, but for every grieving family, they are a tragedy. What is the Government’s plan to arrest and reverse this disturbing trend?
Short debate proposed by Baroness Jones of Moulesecoomb (Green)
To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether they are planning to lower the drink-drive limit in England and Wales.
PQ from Ruth Cadbury (Lab)
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of making the Joint Approvals Unit for Periodic Training approved Safe Urban Driving module a mandatory part of the lorry driver’s Certificate of Professional Competence training.
PQ from Lord Borthwick (Con)
To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether they have made an assessment of the number of cyclists regularly using lanes of London’s roads intended for other traffic where an alternative route via a cycle lane or cycle superhighway is available.
Early Day Motion on National Road Safety Week 2016
PQ from Alex Chalk (Con)
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will make it her policy to use revenues from clean air zones to promote cycling and walking and other healthy sustainable transport alternatives.
PQ from Lord Blencathra (Con)
To ask the Senior Deputy Speaker whether he will make representations to the Metropolitan Police about the dangers caused by cyclists ignoring the law to members of the public, Parliamentary staff and Members using the zebra crossing at 1 Millbank; and whether he will request the police to take enforcement action.
PQ from Nicholas Soames (Con)
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment he has made of the effect of cycle lanes on traffic in London.
PQ from Nicholas Soames (Con)
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment he has made of the effect of cycle lanes on traffic flows between Parliament Square and the City of London.
PQ from Ruth Cadbury (Lab)
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what the reasons are for the time taken to appoint the Chair and Deputy Chair of the Cycling and Walking Investment Strategy Expert Committee.
Short debate propsoed by Susan Elan Jones (Lab)
That this House has considered road safety and the Government’s proposed sentencing review.
PQ from Jim Fitzpatrck (Lab)
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what progress has been made on implementing the conclusions of Working Together to Build a Safer Road System, published December 2015; if he will make it his policy to issue an annual statement; and if he will make a statement.
PQ from Tom Brake (Lib Dem)
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will make an assessment of the potential implications for road safety of drivers wearing spectacles purchased online.