March 2022
Gill Furniss (Lab)
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of to Question 125381, on Electric Scooters: Injuries, with which NHS Trusts he is working to collect evidence on rental e-scooter casualties; and if he will publish all evidence collected, including through STATS19 Data.
Lord Berkeley (Lab)
To ask Her Majesty’s Government what fire safety standards are applied to lithium ion batteries in e–bikes, e-scooters and mobility scooters; and whether such batteries are safe to use and be charged in buildings.
Fleur Anderson (Lab)
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of requiring all bicycles to include a bell.
Baroness Hodgson of Abinger (Con)
To ask Her Majesty’s Government how much money they have spent constructing cycle lanes in each of the last five years.
Lord Berkeley (Lab)
To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the Written Answer by Baroness Vere of Norbiton on 11 February (HL5915), what steps the Office of Product Safety and Standards are taking to ensure that lithium ion batteries used in (1) e-bikes, (2) e-scooters, and (3) other mobility aids, are safe; what (a) national, (b) European, or (c) other standards, inform decisions on whether to permit their use in such vehicles, and whether they will publish the (i) battery types, and (ii) manufacturers, which are not permitted for use in such vehicles.
Baroness Hodgson of Abinger (Con)
To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many pedestrians were knocked over by cyclists in each of the last three years; and of those, how many sustained serious injuries.
Andrew Rosindell (Con)
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to certify that the police in London enforce the rules for cyclists in The Highway Code to the same standard applied to motorised vehicles.
Lord Storey (Lib Dem)
To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the Written Answer by Baroness Vere of Norbiton on 22 February (HL6199), how many of the 141 pedal cyclist fatalities in 2020 were children and young people.
Stuart Anderson (Con)
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what funding her Department provides to local authorities to support the delivery of effective road safety interventions.
Rachael Maskell (Lab)
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will take steps to actively encourage people to use active travel to help save on their use of fuel.
Baroness Hodgson of Abinger (Con)
To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many cyclists were (1) apprehended, and (2) fined, for going through red traffic lights in London for each of the last three years.
Mary Foy (Lab)
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that all road users are informed of the recent changes to the hierarchy of road users within the Highway Code.
Kate Green (Lab)
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether his Department is committed to delivering clean air zones as set out in the Government’s Air quality plan for nitrogen dioxide (NO2) in UK (2017).
Debate: Physical Activity and Health Outcomes
Lord Berkeley (Lab)
To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the Written Answer by Baroness Vere of Norbiton on 9 March (HL6487), how many pedestrians were knocked over by motor vehicles in each of the last three years; and of those, how many sustained serious injuries or were killed.
Rachel Hopkins (Lab)
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what discussions he has had with the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities on the level of financial support available to local authorities to install new cycling infrastructure.
Gill Furniss (Lab)
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what budget his Department has allocated to publicising changes to the Highway Code implemented in January 2022; and what proportion of that budget has been spent to date.
Zarah Sultana (Lab)
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment his Department has made of the potential impact on traffic accidents, injuries and deaths of updates to the Highway Code made on 29 January 2022.
Layla Moran (Lib Dem)
Will the Minister consider meeting me to discuss how we can keep Oxfordshire cyclists safe and how we can avoid any more senseless deaths?
Barry Sheerman (Lab)
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether the Government plans to strengthen vehicle safety standards following the UK’s departure from the EU.
Owen Thompson (SNP)
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of re-classifying e-scooters from motorised transport under section 185 of the Road Traffic Act 1988 on (a) road safety and (b) net zero emissions targets.
Mike Amesbury (Lab)
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment his Department has made of the local authority that has the most potholes as of 14 March 2022
Debate: That this House has considered physical education as a core subject in schools
Selaine Saxby (Con)
Under the unduly lenient sentence scheme, it is currently only possible to submit a request to increase a sentence for causing death by dangerous driving, but the majority of pedestrian and cyclist fatalities are cases of causing death by careless driving. What is my right hon. and learned Friend doing to protect victims of crime who are not covered by the unduly lenient sentence scheme?
Lord Bradshaw (Lib Dem)
To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the Written Answer by Baroness Williams of Trafford on 7 March (HL6233), what is the reason for the decline in the number of roads policing officers; and whether this was due to (1) the trends in road accident figures, or (2) representations of organisations promoting road safety.
Fleur Anderson (Lab)
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether he has had discussions with the Chancellor of the Exchequer on the potential merits of funding the restoration and reopening of Hammersmith Bridge as part of the forthcoming Spring Statement.
Steve McCabe (Lab)
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment he has made of the impact of the changes to the Highway Code implemented in January 2022 on (a) motorists (b) cyclists and (c) pedestrians.
Mike Amesbury (Lab)
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, in reference to the Annual Local Authority Road Maintenance Survey, what assessment his Department has made of the estimate of the £12.64 billion needed to deal with carriageway repairs; and what estimate he has made of the timescale to deal with outstanding carriageway repairs.
Lord Berkeley (Lab)
To ask Her Majesty’s Government what plans they have, if any, to encourage the Royal Parks to close permanently the South Carriageway and the North Carriageway in Hyde Park to vehicular traffic in order to improve the quality of the environment and safety of pedestrians and cyclists in Hyde Park.