Asked by: Rob Marris (Labour - Wolverhampton South West)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many and what proportion of staff employed by his Department are employed on a contract which is (a) full-time permanent, (b) part-time permanent, (c) for less than two years' duration, (d) on an agency basis and (e) zero-hours.
Answered by John Hayes
The following table provides the data requested for the Department for Transport:
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| A | B | C | D | E |
| As at 31/03/2017 | Full-time permanent | Part-time permanent | Less than 2 years | Agency | Zero-hours |
No of staff (headcount) | 15060 | 11023 | 3112 | 754 | 169 | Less than 5 |
Proportion | - | 73.2% | 20.7% | 5.0% | 1.1% | 0% |
The data provided above is to Office for National Statistics standards and both full-time and part-time permanent numbers include staff on loan or secondment.
The Department for Transport consists of the central Department and four Executive Agencies: Driver & Vehicle Licensing Agency, Driver & Vehicle Standards Agency, Maritime & Coastguard Agency and Vehicle Certification Agency.
Asked by: Rob Marris (Labour - Wolverhampton South West)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps he is taking to increase the number of accessible taxis.
Answered by Andrew Jones
Government is committed to giving disabled people the same access to transport services as other members of society. It also recognises the particularly significant role played by taxis and private hire vehicle (PHV) operators for many disabled people, in helping them to remain active and independent.
It is for local authorities to specify a number of accessible vehicles to be within their licensed taxi and private hire vehicle fleet, and to take account of their public sector equality duties when doing so.
Asked by: Rob Marris (Labour - Wolverhampton South West)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps he is taking to improve access to public transport for disabled people.
Answered by Andrew Jones
The Government recognises how important improving access to public transport is for disabled people and is committed to making transport more inclusive.
Since its launch in 2006, the £390m Access for All rail programme (which was further extended with £160m in 2014) has delivered accessible routes at over 150 stations. There are also 68 further projects at various stages of construction or development.
We also recognise that positive interactions with bus drivers can make a big difference to disabled people’s experience of taking the bus. We are working with the bus industry and disabled people to design best practice guidance in delivering disability awareness training which, we hope, will help to give bus drivers the skills and knowledge to assist every disabled passenger.
In addition, the Bus Services Bill will specifically allow enhanced partnership schemes to require all buses within a local area to provide audible and visual next stop information. Authorities using the new franchising powers will be able to place similar requirements on affected operators. The Government has also agreed to consider amendments on this issue which were tabled during the Bill’s committee stage in the House of Lords.
The Government intends to publish an Accessibility Action Plan for consultation by the end of the year which will present its ambition for further progress on this important agenda.