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Written Question
Buses: Accidents
Monday 2nd December 2024

Asked by: Lord Rooker (Labour - Life peer)

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask His Majesty's Government whether there is any evidence that the fare cap has affected bus operations leading to accidents.

Answered by Lord Hendy of Richmond Hill - Minister of State (Department for Transport)

The Department does not hold any data which suggests that the national bus fare cap has led to accidents.


Written Question
Buses: Accidents
Monday 2nd December 2024

Asked by: Lord Rooker (Labour - Life peer)

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask His Majesty's Government whether they have conducted any research into whether bus contracts prioritising speed lead to increased accidents or injury.

Answered by Lord Hendy of Richmond Hill - Minister of State (Department for Transport)

Road safety is a priority for the government, and we expect bus operators to uphold the highest standards of safety, policed by the Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency, and upheld judicially by the Traffic Commissioners. The Department for Transport’s guidance to local transport authorities on developing their Bus Service Improvement Plans makes clear that these should include plans setting out how LTAs and local bus operators will work together to ensure that bus services are safe and perceived to be safe by all. That same philosophy applies also to franchising and contracting by local transport authorities and to their operators.

The Department for Transport maintains a database of road injury collisions and casualties, including those involving buses or coaches, based on data reported by police using a system known as STATS19. Statistics on the number of people killed and injured in bus or coach collisions are published annually on GOV.UK.

The latest figures can be found in published Table RAS0601 and show that in 2023, the latest year for which figures are available, 59 people were killed and 4,286 injured in collisions involving buses or coaches. The number of casualties which were hospitalised is not recorded within the STATS19 dataset.


Written Question
Buses: Accidents
Monday 2nd December 2024

Asked by: Lord Rooker (Labour - Life peer)

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the number of people hospitalised each day as a result of bus accidents.

Answered by Lord Hendy of Richmond Hill - Minister of State (Department for Transport)

Road safety is a priority for the government, and we expect bus operators to uphold the highest standards of safety, policed by the Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency, and upheld judicially by the Traffic Commissioners. The Department for Transport’s guidance to local transport authorities on developing their Bus Service Improvement Plans makes clear that these should include plans setting out how LTAs and local bus operators will work together to ensure that bus services are safe and perceived to be safe by all. That same philosophy applies also to franchising and contracting by local transport authorities and to their operators.

The Department for Transport maintains a database of road injury collisions and casualties, including those involving buses or coaches, based on data reported by police using a system known as STATS19. Statistics on the number of people killed and injured in bus or coach collisions are published annually on GOV.UK.

The latest figures can be found in published Table RAS0601 and show that in 2023, the latest year for which figures are available, 59 people were killed and 4,286 injured in collisions involving buses or coaches. The number of casualties which were hospitalised is not recorded within the STATS19 dataset.


Written Question
Buses: Accidents
Monday 2nd December 2024

Asked by: Lord Rooker (Labour - Life peer)

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask His Majesty's Government what is the incidence of bus accidents leading to death or injury.

Answered by Lord Hendy of Richmond Hill - Minister of State (Department for Transport)

Road safety is a priority for the government, and we expect bus operators to uphold the highest standards of safety, policed by the Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency, and upheld judicially by the Traffic Commissioners. The Department for Transport’s guidance to local transport authorities on developing their Bus Service Improvement Plans makes clear that these should include plans setting out how LTAs and local bus operators will work together to ensure that bus services are safe and perceived to be safe by all. That same philosophy applies also to franchising and contracting by local transport authorities and to their operators.

The Department for Transport maintains a database of road injury collisions and casualties, including those involving buses or coaches, based on data reported by police using a system known as STATS19. Statistics on the number of people killed and injured in bus or coach collisions are published annually on GOV.UK.

The latest figures can be found in published Table RAS0601 and show that in 2023, the latest year for which figures are available, 59 people were killed and 4,286 injured in collisions involving buses or coaches. The number of casualties which were hospitalised is not recorded within the STATS19 dataset.


Written Question
Buses: Accidents
Monday 2nd December 2024

Asked by: Lord Rooker (Labour - Life peer)

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask His Majesty's Government whether they hold a national database of people killed or injured in bus accidents.

Answered by Lord Hendy of Richmond Hill - Minister of State (Department for Transport)

Road safety is a priority for the government, and we expect bus operators to uphold the highest standards of safety, policed by the Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency, and upheld judicially by the Traffic Commissioners. The Department for Transport’s guidance to local transport authorities on developing their Bus Service Improvement Plans makes clear that these should include plans setting out how LTAs and local bus operators will work together to ensure that bus services are safe and perceived to be safe by all. That same philosophy applies also to franchising and contracting by local transport authorities and to their operators.

The Department for Transport maintains a database of road injury collisions and casualties, including those involving buses or coaches, based on data reported by police using a system known as STATS19. Statistics on the number of people killed and injured in bus or coach collisions are published annually on GOV.UK.

The latest figures can be found in published Table RAS0601 and show that in 2023, the latest year for which figures are available, 59 people were killed and 4,286 injured in collisions involving buses or coaches. The number of casualties which were hospitalised is not recorded within the STATS19 dataset.


Written Question
Electric Vehicles: Charging Points
Friday 22nd December 2023

Asked by: Lord Rooker (Labour - Life peer)

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the risk of protective earthed neutral faults in public and street chargers for electric vehicles.

Answered by Lord Davies of Gower - Shadow Minister (Home Office)

Safety requirements relating to protective earthed neutral faults, including those for electric vehicle (EV) chargepoints, are covered by The Electricity Safety, Quality and Continuity Regulations 2002, BS 7671 Requirements for Electrical Installations, the Institution of Engineering and Technology's code of practice for EV Charging Equipment, and the Energy Networks Association’s Engineering Recommendation G12. The Government has not undertaken any separate risk assessment of protective earthed neutral faults in EV chargepoints.


Written Question
Motor Vehicles: Sales
Monday 24th April 2023

Asked by: Lord Rooker (Labour - Life peer)

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask His Majesty's Government what limitations they have identified with respect to meeting the dates planned for banning the sale of new petrol and diesel internal combustion motor cars.

Answered by Baroness Vere of Norbiton

The Government has set out ambitious targets for the transition to zero emission vehicles (ZEVs) and has identified three key areas which we are supporting to make that ambition a reality:

  1. Vehicles - Government grants have been in place for over a decade to help reduce the up-front purchase price of electric vehicles. Grants remain in place for harder to transition vehicles along with favourable tax incentives. In addition, as the global transition to electric vehicles quickens, the recently announced ZEV mandate on new cars and vans will ensure the UK’s share of ZEVs increases.
  2. Infrastructure – The Government is aware how important the reliability and availability of chargepoints are for EV drivers and its EV Infrastructure Strategy sets out its plans to accelerate the rollout of EV chargepoints. The rollout of EV charging infrastructure will be supported by the Local Electric Vehicle Infrastructure (LEVI) fund and the Rapid Charging Fund (RCF). The LEVI fund will support local authorities to work with industry and transform the availability of charging infrastructure for drivers without off-street parking. The RCF will future-proof the electrical capacity at strategic locations to support ultra-rapid en-route charging.
  3. Energy system - The Government expects the transition to EVs to create significant new demand for electricity, and it has mechanisms in place to cope with this. The capacity market is the Government’s principal tool for ensuring security of supply and is supported by the Contracts for Difference scheme which supports significant investment in low carbon generation.

With more than one million plug-in vehicles on UK roads and industry figures showing that one in five new cars sold in 2022 had a plug, we are on track for mass adoption of zero emission vehicles over the next decade.