Jack Dromey: DfT: All Documents

Speech in Westminster Hall - Tue 16 Oct 2018
Road Safety

"It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mrs Moon. I congratulate the hon. Member for Stoke-on-Trent South (Jack Brereton) on initiating the debate. I want to raise an issue that is rarely discussed in the context of road safety—driver eyesight. My interest—indeed, my passion—about the issue arises from …..."
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Written Question

Driving: Visual Impairment

Tuesday 16th October 2018

Asked by: Jack Dromey (Labour - Birmingham, Erdington)

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many people received penalty points for driving with uncorrected defective eyesight in each of the last five years.

Answered by Jesse Norman - Shadow Leader of the House of Commons

In the last four years, 42 drivers received penalty points for the offence of driving with uncorrected defective eyesight. The table below shows the number of offences in each of the last four years. Most penalty points are removed from the driver’s record after four years, therefore information from 2013 is not available.

Year	Total
2014	1
2015	22
2016	12
2017	7

Written Question

Driving Licences

Tuesday 16th October 2018

Asked by: Jack Dromey (Labour - Birmingham, Erdington)

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many full Group 1 driving licenses were held in each of the last five years.

Answered by Jesse Norman - Shadow Leader of the House of Commons

Information on the number of driving licences held in Great Britain in each of the last five years can be found at: http://data.gov.uk/dataset/driving-licence-data.

Written Question

Driving Licences

Tuesday 16th October 2018

Asked by: Jack Dromey (Labour - Birmingham, Erdington)

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many Group 1 driving licences have been revoked for eyesight related conditions by age in each of the last five years.

Answered by Jesse Norman - Shadow Leader of the House of Commons

The information held at Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency does not differentiate between the driving licences that have been refused and those that have been revoked. The number of Group 1 licences that have been refused or revoked for eyesight related conditions by age in each of the last five years is shown in the table below:

Age	2017	2016	2015	2014	2013
15	1	0	0	0	0
16	13	17	13	9	11
17	84	80	84	78	68
18	74	79	72	74	65
19	58	45	59	50	78
20	44	45	60	50	53
21	38	54	40	49	39
22	44	53	34	39	43
23	54	38	28	39	48
24	37	42	39	49	39
25	46	46	47	41	49
26	31	46	37	45	38
27	38	42	32	45	44
28	39	32	35	35	40
29	33	39	40	27	45
30	38	29	32	28	45
31	34	42	26	35	49
32	34	34	30	44	35
33	23	44	36	31	44
34	30	37	30	34	35
35	25	39	39	36	34
36	39	36	26	47	34
37	31	38	30	28	25
38	25	23	31	46	24
39	38	55	33	29	23
40	28	37	37	37	32
41	26	28	37	42	29
42	36	37	35	42	36
43	28	43	42	47	41
44	31	37	50	44	41
45	39	41	41	58	59
46	47	35	24	52	54
47	39	40	50	52	47
48	43	56	52	38	61
49	64	50	45	45	46
50	45	64	60	66	45
51	52	64	51	62	47
52	43	51	46	58	56
53	55	63	69	56	43
54	67	65	49	37	50
55	62	71	69	56	66
56	63	57	61	63	58
57	53	68	71	62	66
58	55	61	56	57	46
59	75	50	59	60	52
60	61	74	74	68	70
61	52	64	69	56	59
62	64	77	58	61	66
63	59	56	68	62	64
64	52	60	73	71	58
65	65	71	71	62	89
66	61	85	90	86	96
67	80	83	109	110	78
68	82	102	117	98	93
69	453	455	271	176	212
70	202	210	270	302	243
71	93	113	116	121	95
72	278	284	230	157	201
73	201	218	296	261	247
74	125	131	104	111	124
75	235	261	230	193	262
76	172	242	342	369	291
77	130	135	148	136	154
78	267	310	253	209	263
79	211	275	371	379	305
80	150	180	182	150	142
81	279	319	227	207	236
82	277	286	342	420	322
83	144	147	159	170	134
84	243	267	206	156	210
85	196	262	341	307	247
86	121	138	154	123	113
87	183	193	119	110	153
88	150	198	198	229	195
89	71	95	67	88	82
90	95	116	80	61	66
91	73	91	99	103	79
92	35	38	41	34	39
93	30	27	41	23	31
94	24	36	33	33	8
95	14	15	7	11	0
96	10	8	4	2	10
97	10	8	6	3	4
98	3	2	1	1	2
99	1	1	0	0	0
100	0	1	1	1	1
101	0	1	0	0	0
102	0	0	0	0	0
103	0	2	0	0	0
Total	6,954	7,789	7,605	7,342	7,127

Written Question

Driving: Eyesight

Tuesday 16th October 2018

Asked by: Jack Dromey (Labour - Birmingham, Erdington)

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many people received penalty points for refusing to submit to an eyesight test in each of the last five years.

Answered by Jesse Norman - Shadow Leader of the House of Commons

The number of drivers who received penalty points for refusing to submit to an eyesight test in each of the last four years is shown in the table below. Most penalty points are removed from the driver’s record after four years, therefore information from 2013 is not available.

Year	Total
2014	0
2015	0
2016	1
2017	1

Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 18 Mar 2015
Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation

"“No more top-down reorganisations”; “no plans to raise VAT”; “We back Sure Start”—these are all broken pledges from a Government and a Chancellor who cannot be trusted. Had I shaken the Chancellor’s hand last Sunday, I would have counted my fingers afterwards.

The pledge on no cuts to front-line services …..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Wed 18 Jun 2014
Washwood Heath Marshalling Yard

"It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Robertson.

I would like to start by telling the tale of two great plants. The first is the Jaguar Land Rover plant. When I was elected in 2010, the Jaguar plant in Erdington was on its way to closure. I …..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Wed 18 Jun 2014
Washwood Heath Marshalling Yard

"The Minister helpfully disclosed the Government’s own assessment of the potential to create 3,700 jobs. Will he confirm that their estimate of what could happen is four times greater than the proposal currently on the table for the marshalling yard, if it goes ahead?..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 17 Dec 2013
Transport Infrastructure

"The chief executive of Birmingham airport, Paul Kehoe, has described the Davies report today as focusing disproportionately on the south-east and entrenching the dominance of the south-east economy to the detriment of growth in the rest of the UK. The Birmingham chamber of commerce has said the same thing. Does …..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Wed 18 Jan 2012
Port of Southampton

"I declare an interest. As deputy general secretary of Unite, I worked with ABP, the local authority and the work force, who are members of Unite, in seeking to drive this project forward. The common ground is the need to rebalance and grow our economy, although we may disagree on …..."
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