Asked by: Dan Carden (Labour - Liverpool Walton)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps her Department is taking to help improve working conditions for HGV drivers.
Answered by Keir Mather - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Transport)
Through the HGV Parking and Driver Welfare Match Funding Grant Scheme, the Government is investing jointly with industry up to £35.7 million to enhance truck stops across England. This significant investment is in addition to funding from National Highways and industry of a further £30 million to improve HGV parking facilities along the strategic road network.
This investment is supporting operators across 30 counties in England to improve welfare facilities, increase parking spaces, improve security and facilitate decarbonisation. The scheme is projected to help deliver up to 1,500 parking spaces.
Asked by: Dan Carden (Labour - Liverpool Walton)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will make an assessment of the impact of State Pension age changes for 1950s-born women living in the Liverpool Walton constituency.
Answered by Torsten Bell - Parliamentary Secretary (HM Treasury)
All women born since 6 April 1950 have been affected by changes to State Pension age.
Estimates can be made using ONS 2021 Census Data on how many women born in the 1950s resided in each constituency in that year.