Correspondence Apr. 17 2024
Committee: Transport Committee (Department: Department for Transport)Found: Correspondence from the Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Department for Transport relating to Bus
May. 08 2024
Source Page: Letter dated 11/04/2024 from Guy Opperman MP to Iain Stewart MP regarding public consultation on two proposals to remove licensing restrictions to make it easier to recruit more coach, bus and HGV drivers. 2p. (relates to consultation paper 'Amendments to licensing restrictions: Bus, coach and heavy goods vehicles (HGVs) CP 1038).Found: public consultation on two proposals to remove licensing restrictions to make it easier to recruit more coach
Apr. 11 2024
Source Page: Amendments to licensing restrictions: bus, coach and heavy goods vehiclesFound: Amendments to licensing restrictions: bus, coach and heavy goods vehicles
Apr. 11 2024
Source Page: New proposals just the ticket for getting young people into transportFound: consultation on lowering the minimum age to drive longer bus and coach journeys and speed up training
Apr. 11 2024
Source Page: Amendments to licensing restrictions: bus, coach and heavy goods vehiclesFound: Amendments to licensing restrictions: bus, coach and heavy goods vehicles
Apr. 11 2024
Source Page: Amendments to licensing restrictions: bus, coach and heavy goods vehiclesFound: Amendments to licensing restrictions: bus, coach and heavy goods vehicles
Apr. 11 2024
Source Page: Amendments to licensing restrictions: bus, coach and heavy goods vehiclesFound: Amendments to licensing restrictions: bus, coach and heavy goods vehicles
Apr. 11 2024
Source Page: Amendments to licensing restrictions: bus, coach and heavy goods vehiclesFound: Amendments to licensing restrictions: bus, coach and heavy goods vehicles
Asked by: Gregory Campbell (Democratic Unionist Party - East Londonderry)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to the Answer of 26 October 2023 to Question 203762 on Buses: Driving, what (a) actions are required by his Department and (b) the planned timeline is for the delivery of those actions.
Answered by Guy Opperman - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Transport)
The Department for Transport received requests from industry to remove the regulatory 50 km restriction on regular services for 18 – 20-year old bus and coach drivers and explore whether a person is able to undertake the theory and off-road manoeuvre elements of the Driver Certificate of Professional Competency test prior to being granted a provisional licence. The Department has been considering these requests and we are actively working on next steps.
The Department will continue to work closely with the Department for Work and Pensions and industry to identify job centre customers who would like to become bus and coach drivers and support them to achieve that aim. Part of our work on this has involved setting up a pilot scheme with an operator that is designed to recruit and train job centre customers into coach driving roles. This pilot has been successful and we are looking at rolling out a similar pilot to areas of the country that have the greatest bus and coach driver shortage.
Dec. 04 2007
Source Page: Options for strengthening bus passenger representation: consultation paper. 17 p.Found: Options for strengthening bus passenger representation: consultation paper. 17 p.