Asked by: Douglas Chapman (Scottish National Party - Dunfermline and West Fife)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how much (a) Scotland, (b) Wales and (c) Northern Ireland will receive under Barnett consequentials to help provide for (i) pop-up cycle lanes and (ii) e-scooter trials as a result of the covid-19 outbreak.
Answered by Baroness Maclean of Redditch
Further details of the allocation of the funding for cycling and walking infrastructure and details of e-scooter trials will be announced shortly.
Asked by: Douglas Chapman (Scottish National Party - Dunfermline and West Fife)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether his Department provides incentives for driving instructors to use electric vehicles.
Answered by George Freeman
The Department provides incentives through grant funding schemes to assist with the cost of purchasing new electric vehicles. These incentives are available for all motorists, including driving instructors. Grant funding schemes are also available to help pay for installing chargepoints in motorists’ homes, residential streets and workplaces. All electric vehicle motorists benefit from a favourable tax regime that rewards the cleanest vehicles.
Asked by: Douglas Chapman (Scottish National Party - Dunfermline and West Fife)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether he plans to undertake test exercises at UK ports to ensure the preparedness of those ports in the event that the UK leaves the EU without a deal.
Answered by Chris Heaton-Harris
The Government has undertaken a comprehensive programme of work to promote preparedness in the event the UK leaves the EU without a deal, which is continuously reviewed and updated to adapt and reflect to changing priorities. This has included advice to hauliers and shippers on border readiness. No further test exercises are planned between now and 31 October.
Asked by: Douglas Chapman (Scottish National Party - Dunfermline and West Fife)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the answer of 15 July 2019 to Question 274560, what the driving test centre service standard travel distance criteria is; what the locations are of the test centres that each of the 19 closed test centres merged with; and which test centres those closed test centres have merged with.
Answered by Michael Ellis
The driving test centre service standard travel distance criteria is as shown in the table below:
Level | Average population for a local authority | Tests generated by candidates | Road distance from test facility | Attainment based on road distance and estimated capacity of test centre |
Service level 1 | 1,250 or more people per square kilometre | 783,276 | 7 miles | 84.0% |
Service level 2 | Between 100 and 1,249 people per square kilometre | 610,410 | 20 miles | 97.0% |
Service level 3 | Fewer than 100 people per square kilometre | 86,709 | 30 miles | 98.2% |
The distance between the closed test centre and the merged test centre, in all 19 cases, met the driving test centre service standard travel distance criteria.
The locations of the test centres that each of the 19 closed test centres merged with, and the test centres that each of the 19 closed test centres merged with, are shown in the table below:
Locations of the test centres that each of the 19 closed test centres merged with | The test centres that each of the 19 closed test centres merged with |
Bredbury | Bredbury |
Hyde | Hyde |
Redditch | Redditch |
Bradford | Bradford (Heaton) |
Chadderton (2) | Chadderton (2) |
Glasgow | Glasgow (Anniesland) |
Cheetham Hill | Cheetham Hill |
Morden | Morden (London) |
Lancing | Lancing |
Barking | Barking (Tanner Street) |
Avonmouth | Avonmouth |
Cambridge (2) | Cambridge (Brookmount Court) (2) |
Llantrisant | Llantrisant |
Mitcham | Mitcham (London) |
Isle of Skye | Isle of Skye (Portree) |
Kingstanding | Kingstanding |
Featherstone | Featherstone |
Asked by: Douglas Chapman (Scottish National Party - Dunfermline and West Fife)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many driving test centres have closed in each constituency in each of the last five years.
Answered by Michael Ellis
The attached table shows the number of driving test centres, which conducted practical car tests that closed in each of the last five years, and the constituencies that were affected.
In all cases where the Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency has closed a test centre it has continued to provide a testing service provision to its customers.
30 of the closed test centres were relocated and re-opened at another location within the service standard travel distance criteria.
19 of the closed test centres merged with another test centre.