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Lords Chamber
Pedal Cyclists: Insurance - Thu 23 May 2024
Department for Transport

Mentions:
1: Lord Davies of Gower (Con - Life peer) Lords, the Government considered this matter carefully as part of a comprehensive cycling and walking safety - Speech Link
2: Lord Davies of Gower (Con - Life peer) all road users, cyclists are required to comply with road traffic law in the interests of their own safety - Speech Link
3: Lord Austin of Dudley (Non-affiliated - Life peer) The best way to make our roads safer is to get more people on bikes. - Speech Link
4: Lord McNicol of West Kilbride (Lab - Life peer) The answer is surely to make roads safer for all by separating different users from each other. - Speech Link


Written Question
Roads: Safety
Thursday 23rd May 2024

Asked by: Mary Kelly Foy (Labour - City of Durham)

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what criteria his Department used to assess applications to the Safer Roads Fund.

Answered by Guy Opperman - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Transport)

The local authorities that have been pre-selected for funding are invited to submit an application. This selection is based on robust Department for Transport data that has been further analysed by the Road Safety Foundation. This process is non-competitive.

After an initial meeting with Department officials to discuss their particular route and its issues, they submit their proposals for assessment. Each application is seen independently by 2 Safer Roads Fund officials at the DfT and an economist. The Safer Roads Fund Team also discuss the applications, making sure they have passed a list of criteria including governance, quality assurance, affordability and a risk register. HM Treasury must approve an overview of the proposed funded schemes before funds can be released.

As it is a non-competitive process, the eligible bids are assessed to ensure that the local authorities’ planned interventions will successfully capture the Road Safety Foundation modelled interventions to reduce risks on the selected route.

Local authorities have access at all times to support from the DfT and the Road Safety Foundation.


Select Committee
Guide dogs, Assistance Dogs UK, and Dogs for Good

Oral Evidence May. 22 2024

Committee: Women and Equalities Committee

Found: Q31 Dame Jackie Doyle-Price: There is an issue with modern housing estates, which have narrow roads


Westminster Hall
Crash-for-cash Insurance Fraud - Wed 22 May 2024
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Elliot Colburn (Con - Carshalton and Wallington) appears to be a trend of parents, particularly mothers, being targeted during the school run, when roads - Speech Link
2: Alison Thewliss (SNP - Glasgow Central) The Insurance Fraud Bureau says that crash-for-cash scams happen every four minutes on UK roads; during - Speech Link
3: Alex Norris (LAB - Nottingham North) It makes them feel that they are no longer safe on the roads or in their communities; every time they - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
E-scooters: Deaths and Serious Injuries - Wed 22 May 2024
Department for Transport

Mentions:
1: Barry Sheerman (LAB - Huddersfield) I have never seen anything that has so radically changed the whole landscape of safety on our roads. - Speech Link
2: Barry Sheerman (LAB - Huddersfield) when it is estimated that there are now between 750,000 and 1 million e-scooters being ridden on the roads - Speech Link
3: Judith Cummins (Lab - Bradford South) my thanks to him for all his work.Since being elected as an MP, I have been dedicated to making our roads - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Media Bill
Committee stageLords Handsard - Wed 22 May 2024
Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport

Mentions:
1: None DAB transmitters have to be carefully placed so that they are not near main roads or houses, because - Speech Link
2: Lord Foster of Bath (LD - Life peer) procession of new regulatory burdens and responsibilities, from regulating the BBC to overseeing online safety - Speech Link
3: None like Topsy, and it continues to do so as it adds 350 new members of staff just to deal with the online safety - Speech Link
4: Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay (Con - Life peer) valuable to have him here for the passage of this Bill, just as it was for the passage of the Online Safety - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Wed 22 May 2024
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Saqib Bhatti (Con - Meriden) during the passage of the Online Safety Act 2023. - Speech Link
2: Matt Rodda (Lab - Reading East) AI Safety Institute. - Speech Link
3: Shailesh Vara (Con - North West Cambridgeshire) The £8 billion made available by the Government for the repair of roads and potholes is very welcome; - Speech Link
4: Rishi Sunak (Con - Richmond (Yorks)) That will mean fewer potholes and smoother, safer roads across our country, but I agree with my right - Speech Link


Non-Departmental Publication (Guidance and Regulation)
Environment Agency

May. 21 2024

Source Page: RG2 0RP, Thames Water Utilities Appeal (Reading) Conditions attached to a permit - EPR/MP3338LU/V004
Document: (PDF)

Found: Health and Safety UK g overnment sponsored body responsible for implementing health and safety Executive


Non-Departmental Publication (Guidance and Regulation)
Environment Agency

May. 21 2024

Source Page: RG2 0RP, Thames Water Utilities Appeal (Reading) Conditions attached to a permit - EPR/MP3338LU/V004
Document: (PDF)

Found: It was then further developed by various Health and Safety Executive guidance notes (HSG 51, HSG 71


Non-Departmental Publication (Guidance and Regulation)
Environment Agency

May. 21 2024

Source Page: RG2 0RP, Thames Water Utilities Appeal (Reading) Conditions attached to a permit - EPR/MP3338LU/V004
Document: (PDF)

Found: sewer compared with the treatment system you propose, and details of any physical obstacles such as roads