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Written Question
Roads and Waste Disposal: Repairs and Maintenance
Tuesday 20th September 2022

Asked by: Lord Mawson (Crossbench - Life peer)

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask Her Majesty's Government what consideration they have given, if any, to the approach of France to highways maintenance and waste clearance by comparison with the UK; what lessons they have drawn from any such consideration; and what plans they have, if any, to apply any such lessons in future policy on highways maintenance and waste clearance.

Answered by Baroness Vere of Norbiton - Parliamentary Secretary (HM Treasury)

On highway maintenance, the Department has committed National Highways to a set of performance targets on how it delivers a well maintained and resilient Strategic Road Network, which is made up of motorways and principal A-roads in England.

On the local road network, local highway authorities have a duty under Section 41 of the Highways Act 1980, as amended, to maintain the highways network in their area. The Act does not set out specific standards of maintenance, as it is for each individual local highway authority to assess which parts of its network are in need of repair and what standards should be applied, based upon their local knowledge and circumstances.

On waste clearance, Government’s Litter Strategy for England sets out a range of measures to reduce littering within a generation and sits alongside National Highways’ Litter Strategy which is informed by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs’ Code of practise on litter and refuse. It commits the organisation to improve the delivery and responsiveness of waste clearance activity as well as partnership working.

Street cleaning and litter picking on the local road network is covered by revenue funding provided by the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities to relevant Local Authorities.

The Government is aware of the importance of having high standards of maintenance and clearance of our highways can have on those travelling on our roads.

The Government also gains insight of road users' views via the Strategic Roads User Survey and has set a set of performance metrics that National Highways is committed to, to track its performance in maintaining and clearing the Strategic Road Network.

The Government has not given any specific consideration to France’s approach to highways maintenance and waste clearance by comparison with the UK.


Written Question
Electric Vehicles: Charging Points
Monday 29th November 2021

Asked by: Lord Mawson (Crossbench - Life peer)

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of (1) the number of electric car charging points in each local authority, and (2) any geographical differences in levels of installation.

Answered by Baroness Vere of Norbiton - Parliamentary Secretary (HM Treasury)

The number of public electric vehicle charging devices available at 1 October 2021 in each local authority of the UK, was as follows

Local Authority / Region

Total devices

per 100,000 population

UNITED KINGDOM

25,927

38.7

GREAT BRITAIN

25,595

39.3

ENGLAND

21,925

38.8

NORTH EAST

916

34.2

County Durham

124

23.3

Darlington

31

28.9

Hartlepool

11

11.7

Middlesbrough

30

21.2

Northumberland

186

57.4

Redcar and Cleveland

34

24.8

Stockton-on-Tees

85

43.1

Tyne and Wear (Met County)

415

36.2

Gateshead

66

32.7

Newcastle upon Tyne

124

40.4

North Tyneside

47

22.5

South Tyneside

30

19.9

Sunderland

148

53.3

NORTH WEST

1,725

23.4

Blackburn with Darwen

31

20.7

Blackpool

24

17.3

Cheshire East

112

29.0

Cheshire West and Chester

99

28.8

Halton

17

13.1

Warrington

89

42.5

Cumbria

237

47.4

Allerdale

19

19.4

Barrow-in-Furness

9

13.5

Carlisle

49

45.2

Copeland

28

41.2

Eden

45

83.7

South Lakeland

87

82.9

Greater Manchester (Met County)

447

15.7

Bolton

24

8.3

Bury

22

11.5

Manchester

112

20.2

Oldham

33

13.9

Rochdale

27

12.1

Salford

76

28.9

Stockport

36

12.2

Tameside

25

11.0

Trafford

52

21.9

Wigan

40

12.1

Lancashire

409

33.3

Burnley

24

26.9

Chorley

46

38.7

Fylde

16

19.7

Hyndburn

21

25.9

Lancaster

74

50.0

Pendle

15

16.3

Preston

53

36.8

Ribble Valley

28

45.1

Rossendale

15

21.0

South Ribble

50

45.0

West Lancashire

48

41.9

Wyre

19

16.8

Merseyside (Met County)

260

18.1

Knowsley

20

13.1

Liverpool

168

33.6

Sefton

26

9.4

St. Helens

22

12.1

Wirral

24

7.4

YORKSHIRE AND THE HUMBER

1,327

24.0

East Riding of Yorkshire

62

18.1

Kingston upon Hull, City of

41

15.8

North East Lincolnshire

24

15.1

North Lincolnshire

25

14.5

York

86

40.8

North Yorkshire

216

34.8

Craven

28

48.8

Hambleton

36

39.2

Harrogate

53

32.8

Richmondshire

19

35.4

Ryedale

50

89.9

Scarborough

19

17.5

Selby

11

12.0

South Yorkshire (Met County)

301

21.3

Barnsley

45

18.1

Doncaster

57

18.2

Rotherham

69

26.0

Sheffield

130

22.1

West Yorkshire (Met County)

572

24.4

Bradford

108

19.9

Calderdale

47

22.2

Kirklees

63

14.3

Leeds

289

36.2

Wakefield

65

18.5

EAST MIDLANDS

1,413

29.0

Derby

65

25.3

Leicester

79

22.3

North Northamptonshire

92

26.3

Nottingham

151

44.8

Rutland

19

46.9

West Northamptonshire

82

20.2

Derbyshire

218

27.0

Amber Valley

15

11.6

Bolsover

39

48.0

Chesterfield

55

52.4

Derbyshire Dales

36

49.7

Erewash

21

18.2

High Peak

25

27.0

North East Derbyshire

10

9.8

South Derbyshire

17

15.5

Leicestershire

224

31.4

Blaby

48

47.1

Charnwood

39

20.7

Harborough

37

38.7

Hinckley and Bosworth

42

37.0

Melton

8

15.6

North West Leicestershire

25

23.9

Oadby and Wigston

25

43.6

Lincolnshire

249

32.5

Boston

45

63.5

East Lindsey

52

36.6

Lincoln

64

64.0

North Kesteven

16

13.5

South Holland

12

12.5

South Kesteven

43

30.0

West Lindsey

17

17.7

Nottinghamshire

234

28.1

Ashfield

23

17.9

Bassetlaw

38

32.1

Broxtowe

34

29.7

Gedling

33

27.9

Mansfield

27

24.7

Newark and Sherwood

36

29.2

Rushcliffe

43

35.4

WEST MIDLANDS

1,723

28.9

Herefordshire, County of

67

34.6

Shropshire

70

21.5

Stoke-on-Trent

37

14.4

Telford and Wrekin

30

16.5

Staffordshire

212

24.0

Cannock Chase

24

23.6

East Staffordshire

20

16.5

Lichfield

17

16.1

Newcastle-under-Lyme

41

31.6

South Staffordshire

48

42.7

Stafford

42

30.5

Staffordshire Moorlands

9

9.1

Tamworth

11

14.3

Warwickshire

252

43.2

North Warwickshire

33

50.4

Nuneaton and Bedworth

21

16.1

Rugby

53

47.9

Stratford-on-Avon

77

58.2

Warwick

68

46.9

West Midlands (Met County)

904

30.7

Birmingham

154

13.5

Coventry

481

126.8

Dudley

38

11.8

Sandwell

37

11.2

Solihull

119

54.7

Walsall

24

8.4

Wolverhampton

51

19.3

Worcestershire

151

25.2

Bromsgrove

42

41.8

Malvern Hills

10

12.6

Redditch

12

14.0

Worcester

29

28.9

Wychavon

43

32.8

Wyre Forest

15

14.8

EAST OF ENGLAND

1,667

26.6

Bedford

102

58.4

Central Bedfordshire

46

15.6

Luton

52

24.4

Peterborough

66

32.6

Southend-on-Sea

16

8.8

Thurrock

19

10.8

Cambridgeshire

172

26.2

Cambridge

56

44.8

East Cambridgeshire

20

22.2

Fenland

5

4.9

Huntingdonshire

46

25.7

South Cambridgeshire

45

28.0

Essex

330

22.0

Basildon

58

30.9

Braintree

71

46.4

Brentwood

7

9.1

Castle Point

3

3.3

Chelmsford

37

20.6

Colchester

45

22.8

Epping Forest

35

26.5

Harlow

12

13.7

Maldon

9

13.8

Rochford

15

17.1

Tendring

16

10.9

Uttlesford

22

23.7

Hertfordshire

323

27.0

Broxbourne

18

18.4

Dacorum

23

14.8

East Hertfordshire

17

11.2

Hertsmere

28

26.5

North Hertfordshire

29

21.7

St Albans

40

26.8

Stevenage

9

10.2

Three Rivers

59

62.8

Watford

47

48.6

Welwyn Hatfield

53

42.8

Norfolk

298

32.6

Breckland

41

29.0

Broadland

20

15.2

Great Yarmouth

32

32.3

King's Lynn and West Norfolk

53

35.0

North Norfolk

66

62.8

Norwich

52

36.6

South Norfolk

34

23.8

Suffolk

243

31.9

Babergh

23

24.8

East Suffolk

62

24.8

Ipswich

55

40.4

Mid Suffolk

18

17.2

West Suffolk

85

47.9

LONDON

7,865

87.4

Inner London

4,943

135.0

Camden

373

133.4

City of London

36

329.1

Hackney

139

49.5

Hammersmith and Fulham

580

316.0

Haringey

92

34.5

Islington

286

115.3

Kensington and Chelsea

547

348.7

Lambeth

307

95.4

Lewisham

132

43.2

Newham

153

43.1

Southwark

390

121.9

Tower Hamlets

190

57.2

Wandsworth

623

188.9

Westminster

1095

405.8

Outer London

2,922

54.7

Barking and Dagenham

64

29.9

Barnet

210

52.6

Bexley

45

18.1

Brent

237

72.3

Bromley

86

25.8

Croydon

100

25.7

Ealing

280

82.3

Enfield

125

37.5

Greenwich

257

88.9

Harrow

49

19.4

Havering

31

11.9

Hillingdon

198

64.1

Hounslow

282

103.8

Kingston upon Thames

96

53.6

Merton

199

96.4

Redbridge

75

24.5

Richmond upon Thames

354

178.7

Sutton

51

24.6

Waltham Forest

183

66.1

SOUTH EAST

3,416

37.1

Bracknell Forest

36

29.0

Brighton and Hove

345

118.3

Isle of Wight

51

35.8

Medway

17

6.1

Milton Keynes

372

137.7

Portsmouth

72

33.5

Reading

62

38.7

Slough

68

45.5

Southampton

87

34.4

West Berkshire

108

68.2

Windsor and Maidenhead

40

26.4

Wokingham

70

40.2

Buckinghamshire

165

30.2

East Sussex

115

20.6

Eastbourne

36

34.8

Hastings

15

16.2

Lewes

24

23.2

Rother

13

13.4

Wealden

27

16.6

Hampshire

523

37.6

Basingstoke and Deane

83

46.7

East Hampshire

37

29.9

Eastleigh

58

42.8

Fareham

12

10.3

Gosport

11

13.0

Hart

47

48.2

Havant

27

21.4

New Forest

80

44.5

Rushmoor

35

37.1

Test Valley

42

33.0

Winchester

91

72.3

Kent

425

26.7

Ashford

32

24.4

Canterbury

65

39.0

Dartford

35

30.7

Dover

31

26.2

Folkestone and Hythe

31

27.4

Gravesham

10

9.4

Maidstone

64

37.0

Sevenoaks

29

23.9

Swale

37

24.5

Thanet

26

18.4

Tonbridge and Malling

20

15.1

Tunbridge Wells

45

37.8

Oxfordshire

310

44.5

Cherwell

97

63.9

Oxford

105

69.3

South Oxfordshire

45

31.3

Vale of White Horse

43

31.2

West Oxfordshire

20

17.9

Surrey

339

28.3

Elmbridge

38

27.7

Epsom and Ewell

17

21.0

Guildford

58

38.6

Mole Valley

21

24.0

Reigate and Banstead

29

19.4

Runnymede

36

39.9

Spelthorne

46

46.1

Surrey Heath

26

29.1

Tandridge

15

16.9

Waverley

34

26.9

Woking

19

19.0

West Sussex

211

24.3

Adur

10

15.6

Arun

27

16.8

Chichester

55

45.3

Crawley

41

36.5

Horsham

29

19.9

Mid Sussex

36

23.7

Worthing

13

11.7

SOUTH WEST

1,873

33.1

Bath and North East Somerset

68

34.6

Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole

82

20.7

Bristol, City of

123

26.4

Cornwall

276

48.1

Dorset

123

32.4

Isles of Scilly

0

0.0

North Somerset

90

41.7

Plymouth

74

28.2

South Gloucestershire

119

41.3

Swindon

47

21.1

Torbay

26

19.1

Wiltshire

167

33.1

Devon

301

37.1

East Devon

64

43.2

Exeter

49

36.8

Mid Devon

27

32.4

North Devon

51

52.0

South Hams

33

37.5

Teignbridge

25

18.5

Torridge

24

34.9

West Devon

28

49.9

Gloucestershire

210

32.8

Cheltenham

34

29.3

Cotswold

59

65.4

Forest of Dean

15

17.2

Gloucester

38

29.3

Stroud

43

35.6

Tewkesbury

21

21.7

Somerset

167

29.6

Mendip

38

32.7

Sedgemoor

33

26.7

Somerset West and Taunton

47

30.2

South Somerset

49

29.0

WALES

994

31.4

Isle of Anglesey

55

78.1

Gwynedd

81

64.7

Conwy

45

38.1

Denbighshire

19

19.7

Flintshire

34

21.7

Wrexham

35

25.7

Powys

89

66.9

Ceredigion

42

57.6

Pembrokeshire

108

85.2

Carmarthenshire

74

38.9

Swansea

57

23.1

Neath Port Talbot

12

8.3

Bridgend

27

18.3

The Vale of Glamorgan

26

19.2

Cardiff

75

20.3

Rhondda Cynon Taf

18

7.4

Merthyr Tydfil

7

11.6

Caerphilly

39

21.5

Blaenau Gwent

18

25.7

Torfaen

28

29.5

Monmouthshire

53

55.7

Newport

52

33.2

SCOTLAND

2,676

49.0

Aberdeen City

99

43.2

Aberdeenshire

106

40.6

Angus

75

64.8

Argyll & Bute

86

100.7

City of Edinburgh

146

27.7

Clackmannanshire

23

44.8

Dumfries & Galloway

102

68.8

Dundee City

127

85.3

East Ayrshire

67

55.1

East Dunbartonshire

25

23.0

East Lothian

123

114.0

East Renfrewshire

24

25.0

Falkirk

53

33.0

Fife

114

30.5

Glasgow City

203

31.9

Highland

224

95.1

Inverclyde

34

44.1

Midlothian

60

64.4

Moray

46

48.1

Na h-Eileanan Siar

28

105.7

North Ayrshire

50

37.2

North Lanarkshire

165

48.4

Orkney Islands

40

178.6

Perth & Kinross

121

79.7

Renfrewshire

71

39.6

Scottish Borders

51

44.3

Shetland Islands

21

91.8

South Ayrshire

57

50.8

South Lanarkshire

148

46.1

Stirling

115

122.2

West Dunbartonshire

26

29.4

West Lothian

46

25.0

NORTHERN IRELAND

332

17.5

Antrim and Newtownabbey

37

25.7

Ards and North Down

19

11.7

Armagh City, Banbridge and Craigavon

31

14.3

Belfast

53

15.5

Causeway Coast and Glens

31

21.4

Derry City and Strabane

27

17.9

Fermanagh and Omagh

38

32.4

Lisburn and Castlereagh

17

11.6

Mid and East Antrim

24

17.2

Mid Ulster

24

16.1

Newry, Mourne and Down

31

17.1

The Government is supporting all local authorities in the UK to provide public chargepoints for their residents without access to private parking through the On-Street Residential Chargepoint Scheme. This year, £20 million is available under the scheme to ensure more local authorities and residents can benefit.

In addition to grant funding, Government’s forthcoming EV Infrastructure Strategy will define our vision for the continued roll-out of a world-leading charging infrastructure network across the UK. The strategy will focus on how we will unlock the chargepoint rollout needed to enable the transition from early adoption to mass market uptake of EVs across all areas of the UK.


Written Question
Electric Vehicles: Charging Points
Monday 29th November 2021

Asked by: Lord Mawson (Crossbench - Life peer)

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of practical challenges of increasing the number of electric car charging points.

Answered by Baroness Vere of Norbiton - Parliamentary Secretary (HM Treasury)

The UK has been a global front-runner in supporting provision of charging infrastructure along with private sector investment. Our vision is to have one of the best infrastructure networks in the world for electric vehicles (EVs), and we want chargepoints to be accessible, affordable and secure.

Government’s forthcoming EV Infrastructure Strategy will define our vision for the continued roll-out of a world-leading charging infrastructure network across the UK. The strategy will focus on how we will unlock the chargepoint rollout needed to enable the transition from early adoption to mass market uptake of EVs. We will set out our next steps to address barriers to private investment, level up charge point provision, and regulate to protect consumers. The strategy will clearly establish government’s expectations for the roles and responsibilities of key stakeholders in the planning and deployment of charging infrastructure.

Building on the £1.9 billion from Spending Review 2020, the Government has committed an additional £620 million to support the transition to electric vehicles. The additional funding will support the rollout of charging infrastructure, with a particular focus on local on street residential charging which has already seen £20 million committed this financial year, and targeted plug-in vehicle grants. The total funding committed by this government to vehicle grants and infrastructure is £2.5 billion.


Written Question
Electric Vehicles: Charging Points
Monday 29th November 2021

Asked by: Lord Mawson (Crossbench - Life peer)

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask Her Majesty's Government what their target is for the number of electric car charging points to be installed; and by when.

Answered by Baroness Vere of Norbiton - Parliamentary Secretary (HM Treasury)

We have targets for en-route charging on the Strategic Road Network, to ensure there are enough chargepoints to enable long distance journeys:

  • By 2023, we aim to have at least 6 high powered, open access chargepoints (150 - 350 kilowatt capable) at each motorway service areas in England.
  • By 2030, we are planning for there to be around 2,500 high powered chargepoints across England’s motorways and major A roads.
  • By 2035, we expect the number to increase to around 6,000 high powered chargers across the network.

We have not set targets for the total number of public chargepoints and we expect local authorities to work with the private sector to meet the charging needs of residents, businesses and visitors. Electric vehicle drivers will require rapid chargepoints to enable long distance journeys, but for many drivers, home charging on driveways and garages is expected to be the most convenient option for shorter journeys. Further, the Government has announced it will require new homes and homes undergoing major renovation with associated parking to have a chargepoint installed.

The Government’s forthcoming EV Infrastructure Strategy will define our vision for the continued roll-out of a world-leading charging infrastructure network across the UK. The strategy will focus on how we will unlock the chargepoint rollout needed to enable the transition from early adoption to mass market uptake of EVs. We will set out our next steps to address barriers to private investment, level up charge point provision, and regulate to protect consumers. The strategy will clearly establish the Government’s expectations for the roles and responsibilities of key stakeholders in the planning and deployment of charging infrastructure.


Written Question
Electric Scooters: Lighting
Friday 19th November 2021

Asked by: Lord Mawson (Crossbench - Life peer)

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask Her Majesty's Government whether electric scooters are legally required to have lights.

Answered by Baroness Vere of Norbiton - Parliamentary Secretary (HM Treasury)

The Government held a consultation in 2018 to consider cycling offences causing serious injury or death as well as reviewing existing cycling offences.

The Government believes that there should be a separate framework of cycling offences, as compared with motoring offences, because it may not be proportionate to apply offences and their corresponding penalties intended for drivers of motor vehicles, to cyclists. The response to the consultation will be published before the end of this year but early next year at the latest.

On e-scooters, privately-owned e-scooters are illegal to use on the road, cycle lanes or pavements, and they can only be ridden on private land with the permission of the landowner. The law is very clear and there are existing penalties for improper use.

Although it is not a specific offence to cycle and use headphones, cyclists could be prosecuted by the police for careless or dangerous cycling. Cyclists and users of trial e-scooters have a duty to behave in a safe and responsible manner and need to concentrate like all other road users and should not do anything that would affect their concentration and put themselves and other road users in danger.

For those who do not adopt a responsible attitude, or if their use of the highway creates an unsafe environment or causes nuisance, there are laws in place that can make them liable for prosecution.

In the UK, e-scooters are treated like any other motor vehicle under the Road Traffic Act. The Government is running trials of rental e-scooters to assess their safety and wider impacts. We require trial e-scooters to meet minimum standards on the e-scooter design, including what lighting is required through administrative vehicle orders issued by the Secretary of State under s.44 and s.63 of the Road Traffic Act. The evidence gathered during the trials will inform whether e-scooters should be legalised in the future, and how we can ensure their use is as safe as possible.


Written Question
Electric Scooters and cycling: Audio Equipment
Friday 19th November 2021

Asked by: Lord Mawson (Crossbench - Life peer)

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask Her Majesty's Government what plans they have to bring forward legislation to make the use of headphones while (1) cycling, or (2) operating electric scooters, an offence.

Answered by Baroness Vere of Norbiton - Parliamentary Secretary (HM Treasury)

The Government held a consultation in 2018 to consider cycling offences causing serious injury or death as well as reviewing existing cycling offences.

The Government believes that there should be a separate framework of cycling offences, as compared with motoring offences, because it may not be proportionate to apply offences and their corresponding penalties intended for drivers of motor vehicles, to cyclists. The response to the consultation will be published before the end of this year but early next year at the latest.

On e-scooters, privately-owned e-scooters are illegal to use on the road, cycle lanes or pavements, and they can only be ridden on private land with the permission of the landowner. The law is very clear and there are existing penalties for improper use.

Although it is not a specific offence to cycle and use headphones, cyclists could be prosecuted by the police for careless or dangerous cycling. Cyclists and users of trial e-scooters have a duty to behave in a safe and responsible manner and need to concentrate like all other road users and should not do anything that would affect their concentration and put themselves and other road users in danger.

For those who do not adopt a responsible attitude, or if their use of the highway creates an unsafe environment or causes nuisance, there are laws in place that can make them liable for prosecution.

In the UK, e-scooters are treated like any other motor vehicle under the Road Traffic Act. The Government is running trials of rental e-scooters to assess their safety and wider impacts. We require trial e-scooters to meet minimum standards on the e-scooter design, including what lighting is required through administrative vehicle orders issued by the Secretary of State under s.44 and s.63 of the Road Traffic Act. The evidence gathered during the trials will inform whether e-scooters should be legalised in the future, and how we can ensure their use is as safe as possible.


Written Question
Electric Scooters and cycling: Road Traffic Offences
Friday 19th November 2021

Asked by: Lord Mawson (Crossbench - Life peer)

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask Her Majesty's Government what plans they have to bring forward legislation for cycling offences; and whether these will include offences related to the use of electric scooters.

Answered by Baroness Vere of Norbiton - Parliamentary Secretary (HM Treasury)

The Government held a consultation in 2018 to consider cycling offences causing serious injury or death as well as reviewing existing cycling offences.

The Government believes that there should be a separate framework of cycling offences, as compared with motoring offences, because it may not be proportionate to apply offences and their corresponding penalties intended for drivers of motor vehicles, to cyclists. The response to the consultation will be published before the end of this year but early next year at the latest.

On e-scooters, privately-owned e-scooters are illegal to use on the road, cycle lanes or pavements, and they can only be ridden on private land with the permission of the landowner. The law is very clear and there are existing penalties for improper use.

Although it is not a specific offence to cycle and use headphones, cyclists could be prosecuted by the police for careless or dangerous cycling. Cyclists and users of trial e-scooters have a duty to behave in a safe and responsible manner and need to concentrate like all other road users and should not do anything that would affect their concentration and put themselves and other road users in danger.

For those who do not adopt a responsible attitude, or if their use of the highway creates an unsafe environment or causes nuisance, there are laws in place that can make them liable for prosecution.

In the UK, e-scooters are treated like any other motor vehicle under the Road Traffic Act. The Government is running trials of rental e-scooters to assess their safety and wider impacts. We require trial e-scooters to meet minimum standards on the e-scooter design, including what lighting is required through administrative vehicle orders issued by the Secretary of State under s.44 and s.63 of the Road Traffic Act. The evidence gathered during the trials will inform whether e-scooters should be legalised in the future, and how we can ensure their use is as safe as possible.


Written Question
Cycling: Accidents
Tuesday 25th May 2021

Asked by: Lord Mawson (Crossbench - Life peer)

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they collect data on the percentage of cycling accidents that take place after dark where the cyclist does not have lights on their bicycles; and if so, how many such accidents took place in England's cities in the last 12 months.

Answered by Baroness Vere of Norbiton - Parliamentary Secretary (HM Treasury)

Statistics on reported personal injury road accidents are compiled from data reported by the police in the STATS19 collection system.

STATS19 does not record whether a cyclist involved in an accident has lights on their bicycle, but does include contributory factors assigned by police officers which give an indication of which factors the attending officer thought contributed to the accident, without assigning blame.

In urban areas of England in 2019, the contributory factor ‘Not displaying lights at night or in poor visibility’ was assigned to a pedal cyclist in 134 personal injury road accidents. This represents 2% of such accidents where a police officer attended the scene and at least one contributory factor was reported.

Road safety statistics are reported on a calendar year basis. The latest annual published statistics are for 2019. Data on reported personal injury road accidents in Great Britain for 2020 will be published in September 2021.


Written Question
Cycling: Accidents
Tuesday 25th May 2021

Asked by: Lord Mawson (Crossbench - Life peer)

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask Her Majesty's Government how many people have been (1) injured, and (2) killed, in cycling accidents that have taken place (a) in a city, and (b) after dark, in the last 12 months.

Answered by Baroness Vere of Norbiton - Parliamentary Secretary (HM Treasury)

Statistics on reported personal injury road accidents in Great Britain are compiled from data reported by the police in the STATS19 collection system.

In 2019, 14,616 people were injured and 46 people were killed in reported road accidents in Great Britain which involved at least one pedal cycle and occurred in an urban area.

In 2019, 3,786 people were injured and 29 people were killed in reported road accidents in Great Britain which involved at least one pedal cycle and occurred in darkness. Darkness means half an hour after sunset to half an hour before sunrise.

Road safety statistics are reported on a calendar year basis. The latest annual published statistics are for 2019. Data on reported personal injury road accidents in Great Britain for 2020 will be published in September 2021.


Written Question
Cycling: Safety Measures
Tuesday 25th May 2021

Asked by: Lord Mawson (Crossbench - Life peer)

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask Her Majesty's Government what advice they have issued to police forces in England about the prosecution of cyclists not using lights on their bicycles after dark.

Answered by Baroness Vere of Norbiton - Parliamentary Secretary (HM Treasury)

The Government has not issued any such advice. The enforcement of cycling offences is entirely an operational matter for individual chief officers of police.