Asked by: John Stevenson (Conservative - Carlisle)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps members of the public can take when they have identified a speedbump that has not been constructed to correct dimension specifications.
Answered by Richard Holden - Shadow Secretary of State for Transport
The Department for Transport provides detailed guidance to highways authorities on the design of traffic calming measures in Local Transport Note (LTN) 01/07 ‘Traffic Calming’, which is available on gov.uk. The Highways (Road Humps) Regulations 1999 provide the statutory framework for road humps in England and Wales.
Decisions on installing road humps are matters for the local highway authority, and they do not have to notify the Department of these decisions. Should there be concerns about specific road humps, members of the public should raise this directly with the local authority responsible for their installation.
Asked by: John Stevenson (Conservative - Carlisle)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps his Department is taking to help ensure that speedbumps are constructed to correct dimension specifications.
Answered by Richard Holden - Shadow Secretary of State for Transport
The Department for Transport provides detailed guidance to highways authorities on the design of traffic calming measures in Local Transport Note (LTN) 01/07 ‘Traffic Calming’, which is available on gov.uk. The Highways (Road Humps) Regulations 1999 provide the statutory framework for road humps in England and Wales.
Decisions on installing road humps are matters for the local highway authority, and they do not have to notify the Department of these decisions. Should there be concerns about specific road humps, members of the public should raise this directly with the local authority responsible for their installation.
Asked by: John Stevenson (Conservative - Carlisle)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps his Department is taking to support people who have had their driving lessons cancelled as a result of covid-19 lockdown restrictions.
Answered by Baroness Maclean of Redditch
Following Government guidance, the Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA) has suspended practical driver testing in England until Thursday 3 December 2020. The DVSA has asked approved driving instructors to respect the national restrictions in England, reduce day-to-day contact with others, and not carry out driver training until the restrictions have been lifted. Pupils can still have private practice using their own car providing they and the supervising driver are from the same household and it is travel for work, education or for other legally permitted exemptions.
The DVSA is contacting candidates whose driving tests are affected by covid-19 restrictions to tell them what they need to do. The agency has made an additional 55,000 practical car driving tests available up to 18 April 2021 to accommodate new and re-scheduled tests. This is in addition to the 150,000 practical car tests already available in the booking system.
Asked by: John Stevenson (Conservative - Carlisle)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many full-time equivalent staff were employed in his Department's human resources section in April 2020.
Answered by Chris Heaton-Harris
In the Department of Transport there were a total of 342.74 FTE employed in the human resources functions at 30th April 2020
The breakdown between the central Department and the Executive Agencies is as follows:
DfTc | 106.0 |
DVLA | 81.9 |
DVSA | 126.4 |
MCA | 24.0 |
VCA | 4.5 |
Total | 342.7 |
Please note, the above figures relate to staff working in teams which are part of the organisations HR functions (at DVSA this includes Driver Examiner Trainers) but do not include any contingent labour.