Asked by: Cat Smith (Labour - Lancaster and Fleetwood)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many people born on 3 May 2000 or earlier are in possession of an Oyster Photocard registered in (a) Woking, (b) Gosport, (c) Bromley or (d) Watford local authority who are aged (i) under 24, (ii) 25 to 49, (iii) 50 to 64 and (iv) 65 or older.
Answered by Paul Maynard - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Work and Pensions)
The Department does not collect Oyster photocard data. This scheme is administered by Transport for London.
Asked by: Cat Smith (Labour - Lancaster and Fleetwood)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many people born on 3 May 2000 or earlier are in possession of a provisional or permanent driving licence registered in (a) Woking, (b) Gosport, (c) Bromley or (d) Watford local authority who are aged (i) under 24, (ii) 25 to 49, (iii) 50 to 64 and (iv) 65 or older.
Answered by Jesse Norman
The information is not held in the format requested and could only be provided at disproportionate cost.
The link below provides data already published on the number of driving licences held in Great Britain by age and by postcode.
https://data.gov.uk/dataset/driving-licence-data
Asked by: Cat Smith (Labour - Lancaster and Fleetwood)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 1 November 2017 to Question 110091, on taxis: disability, what his Department's definition is of vulnerable individuals; and whether that definition includes blind or partially sighted people.
Answered by John Hayes
For the purposes of the statutory guidance to be issued under 177 of the Policing and Crime Act 2017, the Department intends to use the definition of a vulnerable adult in section 42 of the Care Act 2014, that such a person:
(a) has needs for care and support (whether or not the authority is meeting any of those needs),
(b) is experiencing, or is at risk of, abuse or neglect, and
(c) as a result of those needs is unable to protect himself or herself against the abuse or neglect or the risk of it.
The safeguarding measures in the statutory guidance are aimed at helping the range of vulnerable people and will be consulted upon.
Asked by: Cat Smith (Labour - Lancaster and Fleetwood)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether proposed statutory guidance on taxi and private hire vehicle licensing will include a requirement for all drivers to undertake disability equality training.
Answered by John Hayes
The draft Accessibility Action Plan is currently being consulted upon, the Department will review and consult on best practice guidance for taxi and PHV licensing authorities, which will include strengthened recommendations on supporting accessible services.
The statutory guidance issued under section 177 of the Policing and Crime Act 2017 will not include a requirement for all taxi and private hire vehicle (PHV) drivers to undertake disability equality training as this is beyond the scope of the legislation which is to “protect children, and vulnerable individuals who are 18 or over, from harm.”
Asked by: Cat Smith (Labour - Lancaster and Fleetwood)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many people over the age of 18 hold a driving licence in each parliamentary constituency and local authority area.
Answered by Jesse Norman
Officials have advised that this information is not held in the format requested and could only be provided at disproportionate cost.
The link below provides data already published on the number of driving licences held in Great Britain by age and by postcode.
https://data.gov.uk/dataset/driving-licence-data
Asked by: Cat Smith (Labour - Lancaster and Fleetwood)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many people over the age of 18 hold a driving licence in each parliamentary constituency and local authority area.
Answered by Jesse Norman
Officials have advised that this information is not held in the format requested and could only be provided at disproportionate cost.
The link below provides data already published on the number of driving licences held in Great Britain by age and by postcode.
https://data.gov.uk/dataset/driving-licence-data
Asked by: Cat Smith (Labour - Lancaster and Fleetwood)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 22 February 2017 to Question 63666, on driving: licensing, what the ethnic profile is of British citizens that hold a (a) UK or (b) provisional UK driving licence.
Answered by Andrew Jones
The Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency does not record information about the ethnicity of driving licence holders.
Asked by: Cat Smith (Labour - Lancaster and Fleetwood)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what recent assessment he has made of trends in usage of public bus school services.
Answered by Andrew Jones
The number of passenger journeys made on local bus services in London and England from 1970 to 2015/16 can be found in table BUS0103 at: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/bus01-local-bus-passenger-journeys#table-bus0103. However, estimates of the number of passenger journeys on local bus services that operate a school service are not produced.
The Department’s National Travel Survey collects information on travel to school. The number of trips to and from school by local bus per child per year in England can be found in table NTS0613 at:
Asked by: Cat Smith (Labour - Lancaster and Fleetwood)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to the Northern Trans-Pennine Routes strategic study: stage 3 report, paragraph 1.4.1, published on 28 November 2016, for what reasons there is an error for the position of the Port of Heysham on the map in figure 1.1.
Answered by John Hayes
The government has announced that it intends to invest over £1bn upgrading the A66 between the M6 and the A1, to create the first new continuous dual carriageway link across the Pennines in 45 years. The Port of Heysham was misplaced in figure 1.1 as a result of a consultant error, and the document will be updated shortly to address this.
Asked by: Cat Smith (Labour - Lancaster and Fleetwood)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment he has made of the reliability of the Class 37 locomotives that run between Barrow and Preston; and how many journeys were delayed or cancelled in (a) 2016 and (b) 2015 due to engine failure.
Answered by Paul Maynard - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Work and Pensions)
This is an operational matter for the train operator. The Class 37 train is due to be replaced from the Northern fleet by the end of 2019.