Asked by: Angela Crawley (Scottish National Party - Lanark and Hamilton East)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that adequate hygiene precautions are undertaken by all (a) drivers and (b) staff employed at distribution company depots during the covid-19 outbreak.
Answered by Kelly Tolhurst
The Department is working very closely with the logistics industry to keep supply chains moving, including to address this and other matters to keep workers safe. Public Health England updated their advice on 24 March and further work with Public Health England is ongoing.
My colleague Baroness Vere has reiterated in writing the need for guidance to be followed and truck drivers to be allowed access to facilities including toilets, which is consistent with the Public Health England advice.
Asked by: Angela Crawley (Scottish National Party - Lanark and Hamilton East)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment he has made of the potential effect of the UK leaving the EU on the protection of passenger rights in the UK.
Answered by Andrew Jones
The Government is considering carefully all the potential implications arising from the UK’s exit from the EU, including the implications for passenger rights. Until we leave, EU law still applies, so EU rules on passenger rights will continue to apply in the UK, alongside national rules.
Asked by: Angela Crawley (Scottish National Party - Lanark and Hamilton East)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, who the members of the management board of his Department are; and how many of those members are women.
Answered by Robert Goodwill
The Department for Transport Board consists of the Department’s Ministers, the non-executive Board Members and the senior executive team of the Department and these are list below for 1st June 2015. There are currently five members who are women.
Ministers | |
Secretary of State | Rt Hon Patrick McLoughlin MP |
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State | Robert Goodwill MP |
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State | Claire Perry MP |
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State | Andrew Jones MP |
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State | Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon |
Non-Executive Board Members | |
Lead Non-Executive Board Member | Ed Smith |
Non-Executive | Richard Brown |
Non-Executive | Mary Reilly |
Non-Executive | Dame Colette Bowe |
Executive Members | |
Permanent Secretary | Philip Rutnam |
Director General | Lucy Chadwick |
Director General | Jonathan Moor |
Director General | Clare Moriarty |
Director General | David Prout |
Acting Director General | John Dowie |