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Written Question
Electric Scooters
Wednesday 6th December 2023

Asked by: Janet Daby (Labour - Lewisham East)

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if his Department will publish guidance on the use of personal light electric vehicles.

Answered by Anthony Browne - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Transport)

The Department has published guidance on gov.uk on powered transporters, which are otherwise known as personal light electric vehicles. It is currently illegal to use these on public roads unless they meet all the legal requirements of a motor vehicle or of an electronically assisted pedal cycle (EAPC).

The only exception is in the case of e-scooters, which may be used legally only as part of one of the rental trial schemes established by the Department across England in 2020. The Department has published guidance for local authorities, e-scooter operators and users on the conduct of e-scooter trials. Privately owned e-scooters remain illegal to use on public roads unless they meet the legal requirements of a motor vehicle.


All road users have a duty to behave in a safe, responsible manner and to follow the rules in The Highway Code.


Written Question
Members: Correspondence
Monday 12th June 2023

Asked by: Janet Daby (Labour - Lewisham East)

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, when he plans to respond to correspondence of 3 April 2023 from the hon. Member for Lewisham East, case reference JD33646.

Answered by Jesse Norman

The response to the honourable Member’s correspondence was sent on 9 June.


Written Question
Railway Stations: Visual Impairment
Tuesday 2nd May 2023

Asked by: Janet Daby (Labour - Lewisham East)

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what progress he has made in installing tactile paving on all station platforms by 2025.

Answered by Huw Merriman - Minister of State (Department for Transport)

Approximately 60 per cent of British mainline station platforms currently have tactile paving installed. Network Rail has been funded by Government to install tactile paving at all remaining British mainline stations that are otherwise not due to receive tactile paving as part of other planned works. Network Rail has delivery plans in place and contractors engaged and the majority of the work should be completed by April 2024, with the remaining sites completed by 2025 where this best aligns with other planned work.


Written Question
Electric Vehicles: Charging Points
Thursday 20th April 2023

Asked by: Janet Daby (Labour - Lewisham East)

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many public charging points for electric vehicles there are in (a) Lewisham East constituency and (b) the London Borough of Lewisham.

Answered by Jesse Norman

Data on electric vehicle charging devices in the UK, held by the Department for Transport, are sourced from the electric vehicle charging platform Zap-Map. Charging devices not recorded on Zap-Map are not included and the true number of charging devices may be higher than recorded in these figures.

The below table provides the data requested, as of 1 January 2023.

Constituency

Lewisham East

London Borough of Lewisham

a.) Public charging devices (see note 1)

68

195

1) Zap-Map data counts charging devices publicly available at any given point, with decommissioned chargepoints removed from the data supplied to us. Therefore, the number of installed public chargepoints in each given year is likely to be higher as this accounts for the number decommissioned and removed from the data.


Written Question
Electric Vehicles: Charging Points
Thursday 20th April 2023

Asked by: Janet Daby (Labour - Lewisham East)

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what estimate he has made of the number of public charging points for electric vehicles due to be installed in (a) Lewisham East constituency and (b) the London Borough of Lewisham in each reporting year until 2028.

Answered by Jesse Norman

The Government has not set targets for chargepoint provision per region or local area because the exact number and type of chargepoints will be highly dependent on local circumstances, future charging behaviour and the future development of electric vehicle technology. Local authorities have a key role to play as they are best placed to consider local needs. We will require all local transport authorities in England to develop their own chargepoint strategies, subject to consultation.

To date, the borough of Lewisham has been awarded £196,780 to deliver 53 chargepoints through the On Street Residential Chargepoint Scheme.


Written Question
Taxis: Disability
Monday 28th November 2022

Asked by: Janet Daby (Labour - Lewisham East)

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will make it his policy to introduce mandatory disability awareness training for taxi and private hire vehicle drivers.

Answered by Richard Holden - Minister without Portfolio (Cabinet Office)

In its 2019 response to the report of the Chair of the Task and Finish Group on Taxi and Private Hire Vehicle (PHV) Licensing, the Department committed to requiring drivers to complete disability awareness training, when Parliamentary time allows. This remains our intention.


Written Question
Roads: Safety
Thursday 3rd November 2022

Asked by: Janet Daby (Labour - Lewisham East)

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, when he plans to publish guidance for local authorities relating to School Streets.

Answered by Jesse Norman

The Department is working with stakeholders to develop guidance to support local authorities that wish to introduce School Streets schemes. We aim to publish the guidance early next year.


Written Question
Roads: Safety
Friday 28th October 2022

Asked by: Janet Daby (Labour - Lewisham East)

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps her Department plans to take to improve road safety near schools.

Answered by Mark Harper - Secretary of State for Transport

On 29 January 2022, we updated The Highway Code to improve road safety for cyclists and pedestrians by strengthening pedestrian priority on pavements and at crossings and introducing the Hierarchy of Road Users, which places those road users most at risk in the event of a collision, including children, at the top of the hierarchy. The Highway Code makes it clear that those in charge of vehicles that can cause the greatest harm in the event of a collision bear the greatest responsibility to reduce the danger they pose to others and highlights the need to take care and be particularly aware of young cyclists and pedestrians near schools.

Local authorities have a range of traffic management measures available to them to help improve safety outside schools. These include 20mph speed limits, traffic calming, and introduction of a School Street where appropriate. Local authorities have the power to set speed limits on their roads. Authorities are also enabled to place advisory part-time 20mph speed limits signs in the vicinity of schools without the need for Government approval. It is for local authorities to determine what measures are appropriate in individual cases. They have the local knowledge making them the best placed to do so.

The Gear Change plan for walking and cycling (2020) included a number of steps which will support and increase safety of active travel to school, including increasing the number of School Streets (a timed restriction of motorised traffic at the start and end of the school day). The Department for Transport plans to publish School Streets guidance for local authorities in due course.


Written Question
Electric Scooters: Visual Impairment
Monday 14th June 2021

Asked by: Janet Daby (Labour - Lewisham East)

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what recent assessment he has made made of the potential effect of e-scooters on the safety of visually impaired people.

Answered by Rachel Maclean

Since July 2020 I have held four e-scooter roundtable meetings with groups representing the interests of disabled people, including those with sight loss. The most recent roundtable was held on 7 June 2021. Local areas involved in the trials gave presentations on what they are doing to address the concerns of disabled people in trial areas.

We have instructed all local authorities participating in trials to engage throughout the trial period with these groups in their local areas to ensure their concerns are being heard and, where possible, mitigated. Following our consultation last year, and feedback from subsequent stakeholder activities, we have required all e-scooters used in trials to have a horn or bell so that users can make others aware of their presence. The Department’s guidance for trial areas is also clear that there needs to be sufficient parking provision in trial areas; where a dockless operating model is being used, local authorities should ensure that e-scooters do not become obstructive to other road users and pedestrians, particularly those with disabilities.

The Department has in place a comprehensive monitoring and evaluation programme and we have also made additional commitments such as allowing vulnerable road user groups to take part in the evaluation process.


Written Question
London Ambulance Service
Monday 22nd March 2021

Asked by: Janet Daby (Labour - Lewisham East)

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment his Department has made of the ability of the London Ambulance Service to access sites affected by Low Traffic Neighbourhood schemes.

Answered by Rachel Maclean

Implementation of traffic management schemes, including Low-Traffic Neighbourhoods, is a matter for local authorities. The Department has made no such assessment.

No ambulance trust has raised concerns with the Department about access or response times in such schemes. In addition, data obtained by Cycling UK shows that no such schemes had been implemented without the knowledge of the relevant ambulance trust and that no trust had identified delays to emergency response times resulting from schemes.