Mar. 28 2024
Source Page: AAIB publishes Annual Safety Review 2023Found: AAIB publishes Annual Safety Review 2023
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
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.
Apr. 30 2024
Source Page: Defence Land Safety and Environmental RegulationsFound: Defence Land Safety and Environmental Regulations
Apr. 30 2024
Source Page: Defence Land Safety and Environmental RegulationsFound: Defence Land Safety and Environmental Regulations
Asked by: Regan, Ash (Alba Party - Edinburgh Eastern)
Question
To ask the Scottish Government what preparations in relation to (a) public safety and (b) transport are being taken for the upcoming Taylor Swift concert in Edinburgh, in light of the anticipated demographic of the audience being primarily younger women.
Answered by Brown, Siobhian - Minister for Victims and Community Safety
The Taylor Swift concerts are wholly commercial events and the Scottish Government has no locus for involvement. It is the responsibility of the City of Edinburgh Council as the relevant licensing authority to oversee events of this nature, including ensuring compliance by the organisers with the appropriate public safety regulations.
Like with similar major events, security arrangements including the deployment of officers is an operational decision for Police Scotland.
Enhanced transport arrangements have been put into place across Lothian Buses, Edinburgh Trams and ScotRail services to meet the increase in demand expected over the weekend. This includes adding later trains on numerous routes and providing additional carriages on existing rail services to manage the demand. There will be enhanced staffing plans and additional British Transport Police (BTP) officers in place at key locations, as well as on board trains to ensure a safe environment for passengers traveling to and from the event.
Asked by: Alex Cunningham (Labour - Stockton North)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether he has made a recent assessment of the (a) resilience and (b) safety of helicopter transport operations in the North Sea.
Answered by Anthony Browne
The Government is committed to ensuring that North Sea helicopter flying is as safe as possible. In 2014, the CAA published a comprehensive review of the safety of offshore helicopter operations. The Review examined the risks to helicopter operations to support the oil and gas industries in and around the North Sea. It identified a wide range of opportunities to improve the safety of those operations and to increase the chances of passengers and crew surviving an accident.
As the UK’s aviation safety regulator, the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) continues to monitor all aspects of the operations of offshore helicopter companies and any risks to safe operation through its ongoing programme of safety oversight - which includes implementation of the review findings and monitoring data from operators.
It is the role of the CAA as the independent regulator to collect safety data, it is not for the Department to do so.
Asked by: Helen Morgan (Liberal Democrat - North Shropshire)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps he is taking to support National Highways in working to reduce the number of people killed or seriously injured on the Strategic Road Network.
Answered by Guy Opperman
The Government is investing £24 billion on the Strategic Road Network during the second Road Investment Strategy (RIS2 - 2020-2025) to fund the operation, maintenance, renewal and enhancement of the network. Safety is a key consideration National Highways takes into account across all its activity and much of this investment aims to improve safety across the network for all road users. A specific Safety and Congestion Fund, worth £140m in RIS2, is in place as part of National Highways’ Designated Funds programme and aims to deliver over 150 safety improvements on specific high-risk roads, accident-cluster locations and potential suicide-cluster areas, to help reduce the number of people killed or seriously injured on the Strategic Road Network.
The Department for Transport and the Office of Rail and Road, in its capacity of Highways Monitor, hold National Highways to account for delivery against its performance indicators and work collectively to ensure appropriate action plans are in place to maximise safety on the network.
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1: McArthur, Liam (LD - Orkney Islands) The portfolio on this occasion is net zero and energy, and transport. - Speech Link
2: Hyslop, Fiona (SNP - Linlithgow) regional transport partnerships the choice to take different positions. - Speech Link
3: Hyslop, Fiona (SNP - Linlithgow) and various other road safety forums. - Speech Link
4: Choudhury, Foysol (Lab - Lothian) and promote active travel, and will she assure me that projects for Transport Scotland’s road safety - Speech Link
5: Hyslop, Fiona (SNP - Linlithgow) Road safety is a big concern of mine, which is why we have that record level of funding in the road safety - Speech Link
Jun. 11 2024
Source Page: Decision for Bud Rescue & Recovery LtdFound: James Winslow has lost his good repute as a transport manager, pursuant to Schedule 3 paragraph 1 of
Apr. 02 2009
Source Page: Table showing Department for Transport consultations from 01/02/2008.Found: Table showing Department for Transport consultations from 01/02/2008.