Asked by: Feryal Clark (Labour - Enfield North)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether his Department plans to provide support to Enfield Council to increase road safety in Enfield in the next (a) six and (b) 12 months.
Answered by Richard Holden - Shadow Secretary of State for Transport
Roads in Enfield are primarily the responsibility of Enfield Borough Council, plus Transport for London (TfL) for the red routes. Any concerns about their safety should be raised with them in the first instance. Since the onset of the pandemic, Government has provided TfL with over £6billion of emergency funding support.
Asked by: Feryal Clark (Labour - Enfield North)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether he has received any information on the cleanliness standard of the M25 embankments, carriageways, hard shoulders, slip roads around Junction 25.
Answered by Richard Holden - Shadow Secretary of State for Transport
National Highways confirms that the most recent assessment of Junction 25 of the M25 was carried out on 7 April 2023 and the area was scored as a Grade B (Predominately free of litter and refuse apart from some small items). This area is next due to be graded on 21 April 2023.
NH has carried out litter collections on the slip roads over the course of the last two weeks. They have the following planned closures booked to address litter collections and other maintenance activities in the area; M25 Junctions 25 to 27 on the 15th to 19th May; and M25 Junctions 27 to 25 on the 22nd to 26th May.
Asked by: Feryal Clark (Labour - Enfield North)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what estimate he has made of the number of public charging points for electric vehicles due to be installed in (a) Enfield North constituency and (b) the London Borough of Enfield in each reporting year until 2028.
Answered by Jesse Norman - Shadow Leader of the House of Commons
The Government has not set targets for chargepoint provision per region or local area because the exact number and type of chargepoints will be highly dependent on local circumstances, future charging behaviour and the future development of electric vehicle technology. Local authorities have a key role to play as they are best placed to consider local needs. We will require all local transport authorities in England to develop their own chargepoint strategies, subject to consultation.
To date, the London Borough of Enfield has been awarded £72,000 to deliver 32 public chargepoints through the On Street Residential Chargepoint Scheme. So far, 23 completed chargepoints have been installed which were funded through this scheme.
Asked by: Feryal Clark (Labour - Enfield North)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many public charging points for electric vehicles there are in (a) Enfield North constituency and (b) the London Borough of Enfield.
Answered by Jesse Norman - Shadow Leader of the House of Commons
Data on electric vehicle charging devices in the UK, held by the Department for Transport, are sourced from the electric vehicle charging platform Zap-Map. Charging devices not recorded on Zap-Map are not included and the true number of charging devices may be higher than recorded in these figures.
The below table provides the data requested, as of 1 January 2023.
| Enfield North Constituency | London Borough of Enfield |
Public Charging Devices (see note 1) | 58 | 209 |
1) Zap-Map data counts charging devices publicly available at any given point, with decommissioned charge points removed from the data supplied to us. Therefore, the number of installed public charge points in each given year is likely to be higher as this accounts for the number decommissioned and removed from the data.
Asked by: Feryal Clark (Labour - Enfield North)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of enforcement by the Traffic Commissioners of compliance with relevant requirements by holders of operator's licences for heavy goods vehicles.
Answered by Richard Holden - Shadow Secretary of State for Transport
The Traffic Commissioners are an arms-length tribunal. They review licences when evidence of non-compliance is provided by enforcement agencies, such as the Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency or Police. The Traffic Commissioners will call operators to public inquiry in response to allegations of serious failings, for instance significant drivers’ hours or roadworthiness. In 2021-2022 Traffic Commissioners undertook 920 Public Inquiries for this type of case leading to the revocation, curtailment or other action in all but 67 cases.
In addition, Traffic Commissioners held 315 Public Inquiries to determine new applications for goods vehicle operator’s licences due to concerns that the applicant may not meet the requirements to hold a licence.
Asked by: Feryal Clark (Labour - Enfield North)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what data his Department holds on the number and proportion of traffic accidents in rural areas involving heavy goods vehicles; and whether he is taking steps to control the level of heavy goods vehicle traffic in such areas.
Answered by Richard Holden - Shadow Secretary of State for Transport
The Department’s reported road casualty statistics are based on data collected via the STATS19 system of injury collisions reported by the police.
In 2021, the latest year for which data is available, there were a total of 1,593 reported injury collisions on rural roads in Great Britain which involved at least one heavy goods vehicle. This represented 5.4% of the total number of injury collisions on rural roads in Great Britain in 2021.
We keep rural roads under review as part of considerations for any future plans on road safety.
Asked by: Feryal Clark (Labour - Enfield North)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what his Department's funding plans are for walking and cycling schemes in the next three years.
Answered by Jesse Norman - Shadow Leader of the House of Commons
The second statutory Cycling and Walking Investment Strategy, published in July of this year, reiterated the Government’s commitment to this important agenda and set out the funding that was projected to be spent on it from 2020/21 to 2024/25 from a wide range of funding streams.
The Autumn Statement of 17 November confirmed the Department for Transport’s overall funding levels for 2023-24 and 2024-25. The Department is currently considering the budget for active travel as part of its examination of all future spending plans following that Statement.
Asked by: Feryal Clark (Labour - Enfield North)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, by what date he will launch Active Travel Fund 4.
Answered by Jesse Norman - Shadow Leader of the House of Commons
The Department plans to launch Active Travel Fund 4 once future budgets are confirmed through the Departmental business planning process.
Asked by: Feryal Clark (Labour - Enfield North)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether the DVLA is required to pass on personal information to third parties such as private parking companies.
Answered by Robert Courts
Regulation 27 of The Road Vehicles (Registration and Licensing) Regulations 2002 allows information about the keepers of UK-registered vehicles to be disclosed to third parties in certain limited circumstances, subject to appropriate safeguards. This includes the release of information to help manage parking on private land.
To help ensure that motorists are treated fairly when any parking charges are levied, vehicle keeper information is disclosed only to companies that are members of an accredited trade association and adhere to an enforceable code of practice.
The British Parking Association and the Independent Parking Committee are the relevant accredited trade associations for the parking industry.
Regulations allow the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency to charge a fee for releasing information to private parking companies. HM Treasury guidance dictates that fees are set to recover the cost of providing the information and this ensures that the cost is borne by the requester and not passed on to the taxpayer.
Asked by: Feryal Clark (Labour - Enfield North)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether revenue is generated by the DVLA from private parking companies.
Answered by Robert Courts
Regulation 27 of The Road Vehicles (Registration and Licensing) Regulations 2002 allows information about the keepers of UK-registered vehicles to be disclosed to third parties in certain limited circumstances, subject to appropriate safeguards. This includes the release of information to help manage parking on private land.
To help ensure that motorists are treated fairly when any parking charges are levied, vehicle keeper information is disclosed only to companies that are members of an accredited trade association and adhere to an enforceable code of practice.
The British Parking Association and the Independent Parking Committee are the relevant accredited trade associations for the parking industry.
Regulations allow the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency to charge a fee for releasing information to private parking companies. HM Treasury guidance dictates that fees are set to recover the cost of providing the information and this ensures that the cost is borne by the requester and not passed on to the taxpayer.