Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what recent assessment he has made of the adequacy of the powers of the Traffic Commissioners for Great Britain.

In May 2023, we published a review into the function of the Traffic Commissioners of Great Britain. This review sought to produce a robust assessment of the function and align it wherever possible to Cabinet’s Office direction on Public Bodies reviews.

The review found that the Traffic Commissioner function generally operates effectively and can meet the standards of service for the transport industry. It also identified that future, substantive, reform of the Traffic Commissioner function would require legislative changes to be made. These will need to be considered alongside other Government priorities.