Public Transport: Females

(asked on 6th February 2023) - View Source

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask His Majesty's Government what steps they intend to take in response to the recommendations of the report Transport Champions for Tackling Violence Against Women and Girls, commissioned by the Department for Transport; and in particular, how they intend to respond to the five "first order priorities".


Answered by
Baroness Vere of Norbiton Portrait
Baroness Vere of Norbiton
Parliamentary Secretary (HM Treasury)
This question was answered on 15th February 2023

We have an action plan which sets out how we will respond to the Champions’ recommendations. We are working with partners across industry and Government and are making good progress on delivery. This includes giving consideration to personal safety as part of the forthcoming Local Transport Plan guidance (recommendation 1); identifying opportunities to improve the collection of gender disaggregated data and data on experiences of safety on transport, for example via the National Travel Attitudes Study (recommendation 2); working with Home Office on the ‘Enough’ communications campaign (recommendation 3); reviewing current training across the transport industry (recommendation 4); and engaging with the Home Office on DBS and vetting (recommendation 5).

We expect to report on progress on the 13 recommendations in autumn this year.

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