Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps his Department is taking to help ensure there are safe road crossing points near schools; and if he will publish all data his Department holds on changes in the number of school crossing guards per local authority in each of the last five years.

Traffic management of roads, including provision of road crossing points near schools, is the responsibility of local authorities. The Department and Active Travel England provide funding to local authorities to enable them to make improvements of this sort: funding allocations are on gov.uk.

The Department does not hold any data on the changes in the number of school crossing patrol officers. Decisions about providing funding for school crossing patrols are a matter for individual local authorities.