Asked by: David Nuttall (Conservative - Bury North)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps the Government is taking to help protect horse riders on the roads; and if he will make a statement.
Answered by Andrew Jones
The Highway Code provides advice to be particularly careful around horse riders.
The THINK! “Have Some Horse Sense on the Road” campaign reminds motorists of the need to be patient when they encounter horses.
The driving theory test contains questions about how drivers should interact with horse riders; and the hazard perception test includes a number of clips where horse riders are the hazard, either directly or indirectly. These clips are updated periodically.
Asked by: David Nuttall (Conservative - Bury North)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many officials in his Department are engaged in research into the effects of the UK leaving the EU.
Answered by Robert Goodwill
The Government is focused on delivering a successful renegotiation: it believes it can and will succeed in reforming and renegotiating our relationship with the EU and campaigning to keep the UK in the EU on that basis. Departments are appropriately resourced to support the Government’s priorities in Europe.
Asked by: David Nuttall (Conservative - Bury North)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, which external organisations he has met to discuss the consequences of the UK leaving the EU in each of the last three years; and how many times he has met each such organisation.
Answered by Robert Goodwill
The Government is focused on delivering a successful renegotiation: it believes it can and will succeed in reforming and renegotiating our relationship with the EU and campaigning to keep the UK in the EU on that basis. The Secretary of State regularly meets with a range of external organisations to discuss the Government's objectives in Europe. Details of Ministerial meetings with external organisations are currently being updated and will be published in due course.
Asked by: David Nuttall (Conservative - Bury North)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, which external organisations officials in his Department have met to discuss the consequences of the UK leaving the EU in each of the last three years; and how many meetings such officials have had with each such organisation.
Answered by Robert Goodwill
The Government is focused on delivering a successful renegotiation: it believes it can and will succeed in reforming and renegotiating our relationship with the EU and campaigning to keep the UK in the EU on that basis. Officials regularly meet with a range of external organisations to discuss the Government's objectives in Europe.
Asked by: David Nuttall (Conservative - Bury North)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, under what statutory enactment is the validity of vehicle excise duty ended when a vehicle changes ownership.
Answered by Andrew Jones
The change to end vehicle excise duty at the point of sale was introduced in the Finance Act 2014. That made it no longer possible to transfer a vehicle licence when there is a change of keeper.
Asked by: David Nuttall (Conservative - Bury North)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, which local authorities have a road asset management plan in place.
Answered by Robert Goodwill
The Department for Transport continues to work closely with the all parts of the sector to help spread best practice in highways asset management, including through the Highways Maintenance Efficiency Programme.
The development of highways asset management plans and strategies is a matter for each local highway authority. Many authorities are currently at different stages of implementing such plans and the Department does not hold comprehensive data on how many authorities have up to date asset management plans in place.
The National Audit Office in their report -
http://www.nao.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Maintaining-Strategic-Infrastructure-Roads.pdf
- stated that at least 45 local highway authorities had not yet completed an asset management plan when surveyed in early 2014.
The recent consultation on local highways maintenance funding from 2015/16 onwards -
- proposed that a proportion of funding could be awarded to authorities who demonstrate that they have an asset management strategy in place and are adopting efficient delivery of highway maintenance services.