Asked by: Greg Smith (Conservative - Mid Buckinghamshire)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 4 August 2026 to Question 18207 on Railway Stations: Biometrics, what offences were the 13 individuals arrested for; at which railway station did each arrest take place; and in what way was each arrest linked to the deployment of live facial recognition technology.
Answered by Keir Mather - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Transport)
The British Transport Police have informed us that this information is not readily accessible within the timeframe for parliamentary questions. I have asked the Rail Minister to write to you with the data requested when it is available.
Asked by: Greg Smith (Conservative - Mid Buckinghamshire)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of revoking the Traffic Distribution Rules 1991 on (a) passenger services, (b) dedicated air freight services and (c) regional airports serving the London air freight market.
Answered by Keir Mather - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Transport)
The Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) is currently undertaking its review of the 1991 Traffic Distribution Rules (TDR) after consulting stakeholders more widely. Once the review has concluded and the CAA has provided its advice, the government will give this careful consideration before determining next steps.
Asked by: Greg Smith (Conservative - Mid Buckinghamshire)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what estimate she has made of the level of net Government support to the rail sector per passenger journey in September 2026.
Answered by Keir Mather - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Transport)
The Department does not routinely publish estimates of net government support to the rail sector per passenger journey for individual months. The Office of Rail and Road (ORR) publishes annual statistics on government support to the rail industry and passenger journeys. These can be found here:
https://dataportal.orr.gov.uk/statistics/finance/rail-industry-finance/.
https://dataportal.orr.gov.uk/statistics/usage/passenger-rail-usage/.
Rail industry finance figures for 2025-26 will be released in November by the ORR but will not include September 2026 as this falls in the 2026-27 financial year.
Asked by: Greg Smith (Conservative - Mid Buckinghamshire)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 15 July 2026 to Question 17404 on British Transport Police: Railway Stations, how many full-time equivalent British Transport Police officers were assigned to each of the 20 major rail interchange stations listed in that Answer in each year from 2022-23 to 2026-27.
Answered by Keir Mather - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Transport)
The British Transport Police (BTP) are operationally independent and decisions on the total numbers of officers at locations on the railway is a decision for senior officers within BTP. The BTP are not able to provide the specific breakdown of officer numbers at individual stations for operational security reasons.
Asked by: Greg Smith (Conservative - Mid Buckinghamshire)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 17 July 2026 to Question 18158 on Road Traffic, whether her Department or National Highways holds estimates of (a) total hours of delay and (b) the economic cost of delay attributable specifically to incidents on the strategic road network in each of the last five years.
Answered by Justin Madders - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Transport)
Neither the Department for Transport nor National Highways has produced assured estimates of total hours of delay specifically attributable to incidents.
An estimate of the economic cost of delay on the strategic road network, for all causes of delay, can be found at: https://nationalhighways.co.uk/media/nixpb1ed/managing-delay-on-the-strategic-road-network.pdf
National Highways is in the process of developing updated, suitable estimates, and more broadly continues to improve the data and understanding of delay across the strategic road network and regularly publishes information in this area.
Asked by: Greg Smith (Conservative - Mid Buckinghamshire)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 4 August 2026 to Question 18371 on Trains: Crimes of Violence, how many knife-enabled crimes were recorded by the British Transport Police as having occurred on board trains in each of the five years for which it holds readily extractable, comparable data.
Answered by Keir Mather - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Transport)
The British Transport Police have provided the following data which shows the number of recorded knife-enabled crimes occurring on board trains in each of the last five years:
Year | On Train |
2021-2022 | 320 |
2022-2023 | 283 |
2023-2024 | 328 |
2024-2025 | 290 |
2025-2026 | 265 |
Total | 1486 |
Asked by: Greg Smith (Conservative - Mid Buckinghamshire)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to the Answer of 22 May 2026 to Question 2368 on Parking: Private Sector, whether that review has now concluded; and when she plans to publish its outcome.
Answered by Justin Madders - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Transport)
The outcome of the review of the fees charged for releasing vehicle keeper information will be published in due course.
Asked by: Greg Smith (Conservative - Mid Buckinghamshire)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether the scope, content and diagrams have been developed for the forthcoming update to the Manual for Streets.
Answered by Justin Madders - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Transport)
The revised Manual for Streets is currently being developed. Decisions regarding its scope, content and supporting diagrams will be considered and determined as part of that process.
Asked by: Greg Smith (Conservative - Mid Buckinghamshire)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 27 May 2026 to Question 2243, what decisions stemmed from the initial workshop on updating the Setting Local Speed Limits and Red Light and Speed Camera guidance.
Answered by Justin Madders - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Transport)
The initial workshop on 16 June 2026 formed part of the Department’s stakeholder engagement programme for updating the Setting Local Speed Limits and Red Light Speed Camera guidance. The workshop helped identify key issues for further consideration, informed the development of options for updating the guidance, and shaped the subsequent programme of work and stakeholder engagement.
Asked by: Greg Smith (Conservative - Mid Buckinghamshire)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many full-time equivalent driving examiners recruited by the Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA) were (a) in post and (b) delivering practical car driving tests in each month since May 2026.
Answered by Justin Madders - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Transport)
The table below shows the number of full-time equivalent (FTE) driving examiners (DE) who were in post and available to deliver car practical driving tests in July and August 2026. Data for June 2026 was provided in the Answer to Question 16745 on 13 July 2026.
| July 2026 | August 2026 |
Number of FTE DE in post | 1,643 | 1,667 |
Number of FTE DE available to deliver car practical driving tests | 1,595 | 1,605 |