Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what recent progress his Department has made on preparing legislation in response to the recommendations made in the Law Commission's reports on (a) Level Crossings, published on 25 September 2013, and (b) Taxi and Private Hire Services, published on 23 May 2014.

The Department expects to make an announcement shortly on its proposed next steps in relation to the Law Commission’s report on level crossings. It is currently considering all the recommendations in the Law Commission’s report on taxi and private hire regulation in England and Wales against the backdrop of a rapidly changing industry and will formally respond to the Law Commission and announce its intentions once this scrutiny is completed.