Mentions:
1: Trudy Harrison (CON - Copeland) , given the distances covered on UK roads by goods vehicles, as well as the potential risks to road safety - Speech Link
2: Trudy Harrison (CON - Copeland) The measure is specifically for vehicles—including their trailers, potentially—between 2.5 tonnes and - Speech Link
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1: Jo Gideon (CON - Stoke-on-Trent Central) residential properties and littering our countryside with waste that presents a real threat to the health and safety - Speech Link
2: Deidre Brock (SNP - Edinburgh North and Leith) much larger-scale operations such as enormous illegal landfills and, increasingly, abandoned lorry trailers - Speech Link
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1: Baroness Randerson (LDEM - Life peer) wanting to work within the EU must now separately license their business, register their vehicles and trailers - Speech Link
2: Baroness Vere of Norbiton (CON - Life peer) with the French Government—the train driving licence element, the operator licensing element and the safety - Speech Link
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1: Baroness Vere of Norbiton (CON - Life peer) Furthermore, all car licence holders already have the right to tow smaller trailers. - Speech Link
2: Lord Berkeley (LAB - Life peer) There are no trailers attached to them; it is just their car. - Speech Link
3: None trailers; it is not about people who tow smaller trailers, as anyone can and has always been able to - Speech Link
4: None Those figures include incidents involving larger trailers and smaller trailers. - Speech Link
5: None to all trailers, not just the heavier ones. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Trudy Harrison (CON - Copeland) My officials have met with the all-party parliamentary group on trailer and towing safety to develop - Speech Link
2: Karin Smyth (LAB - Bristol South) None of us thinks that we are competent to drive those trailers without training and testing. - Speech Link
3: Trudy Harrison (CON - Copeland) , including caravans and trailers up to 3,500 kg—which I can tow, because I am 45 years old and passed - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Baroness Randerson (LDEM - Life peer) the need for additional training and testing for qualified van and car drivers before they can tow trailers - Speech Link
2: Lord Jones of Cheltenham (LDEM - Life peer) What is her assessment of the implications for road safety of increasing drivers’ hours? - Speech Link
3: Baroness Chisholm of Owlpen (Non-affiliated - Life peer) We take safety very seriously. Any death on the road is one death too many. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Baroness Kennedy of Cradley (Non-affiliated - Life peer) Authorities need the powers that currently exist with regard to enforcing safety standards and licensing - Speech Link
2: Lord German (LDEM - Life peer) Will it improve public safety? - Speech Link
3: Lord Faulkner of Worcester (LAB - Life peer) West Mercia Police, of a number of sophisticated initiatives to track stolen items as varied as farm trailers - Speech Link
4: Baroness Fox of Buckley (Non-affiliated - Life peer) As the noble Lord, Lord Bassam, suggested, online abuse will be thoroughly debated in the online safety - Speech Link
5: Lord Rosser (LAB - Life peer) democracy.Likewise, we saw protests against the increase in fuel prices recently, with drivers of goods vehicle trailers - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: None Road safety is, of course, of the utmost importance, and I understand why road safety concerns have been - Speech Link
2: Earl Attlee (CON - Excepted Hereditary) I do not believe that it is worth the effort of an additional test for light trailers. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Karin Smyth (LAB - Bristol South) Paragraph 5.26 states:“In order to tow heavier trailers…the driver must undertake an additional…test… - Speech Link
2: Sarah Olney (LDEM - Richmond Park) Member for Bristol South has been saying about the need to increase the safety of trailers. - Speech Link
3: Trudy Harrison (CON - Copeland) This reinforces the vital importance of maintaining trailers. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Pete Wishart (SNP - Perth and North Perthshire) I have now accepted that he does not care a jot about the safety and security of his colleagues or staff - Speech Link
2: Kerry McCarthy (LAB - Bristol East) As a result, I had a conversation with the chair of the all-party group on trailer and towing safety, - Speech Link