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Written Question
Driving Licences: Gender
Wednesday 8th February 2023

Asked by: Rachel Maclean (Conservative - Redditch)

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 30 January 2023 to Question 132588 on Driving Licences: Gender, if he will take steps to ensure that (a) driving licence applications replace the word gender with the word sex and (b) the driving licence systems record male and female biological sex as essential categories for all purposes.

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

The Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency is working to ensure consistency in the way such information is captured across its driving licence application services.


Written Question
Driving Licences: Gender
Monday 30th January 2023

Asked by: Rachel Maclean (Conservative - Redditch)

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will update the driving license application process to replace the word gender and the options male and female with the word sex and the options male and female.

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

The Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA) already captures ‘sex’ with the option for male and female on its new digital service for first provisional driving licence applications. The DVLA is working to ensure consistency in the way such information is captured across all its driving licence application services.


Written Question
Railways: Midlands
Thursday 30th January 2020

Asked by: Rachel Maclean (Conservative - Redditch)

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps his Department is taking to improve rail services in the Midlands.

Answered by Chris Heaton-Harris - Secretary of State for Northern Ireland

Major investment is planned to improve rail services throughout the region. In the West Midlands, £700m is being invested in a fleet of 180 new carriages which will deliver 20,000 more peak hour seats into Birmingham over the next two years,

The East Midlands will benefit from our £1.5 billion upgrade of the Midland Mainline, with faster peak time journeys to London from this December and a brand-new fleet of bi-mode trains entering service from 2022.


Written Question
Midlands Connect
Monday 21st October 2019

Asked by: Rachel Maclean (Conservative - Redditch)

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what estimate he has made of the cost to the public purse of delivering Midlands Connect.

Answered by George Freeman

To date the Government has provided Midlands Connect with £25 million to develop a transport strategy and progress key projects designed to boost productivity and growth in the region.

This includes £5 million to develop the Midlands Rail Hub, which is a suite of infrastructure improvements designed to improve rail travel in the region. The cost of delivering Midlands Rail Hub in its entirety is estimated to be between £1.5bn and £2bn.


Written Question
Bus Services: Concessions
Monday 21st October 2019

Asked by: Rachel Maclean (Conservative - Redditch)

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what estimate he has made of the cost to the public purse of providing free bus travel for people under 25.

Answered by George Freeman

The Government has not estimated the cost of providing free bus travel to people under 25.


Written Question
Electric Vehicles: Charging Points
Thursday 5th July 2018

Asked by: Rachel Maclean (Conservative - Redditch)

Question to the Department for Transport:

What steps he is taking to improve the charging infrastructure for electric vehicles.

Answered by Jesse Norman

My hon. Friend is right to focus on charging points. We have a large charging point network, and we are rapidly expanding it. As she knows, we have just announced a local charging infrastructure fund of £400 million. A lot of work is being done with local authorities, and I encourage my hon. Friend to work with us to develop further charging points in her area.


Written Question
Transport: Snow and Ice
Thursday 1st March 2018

Asked by: Rachel Maclean (Conservative - Redditch)

Question to the Department for Transport:

What steps his Department is taking to prepare transport infrastructure for severe winter weather.

Answered by Nusrat Ghani - Minister of State (Minister for Europe)

Significant efforts have been made this year across the transport sectors, including road, rail and air, to boost resilience and preparedness.

We continue to work closely with all key transport operators, the local government sector, salt suppliers and other key partners to ensure that disruption to our transport network are kept to a minimum.