Asked by: Janet Daby (Labour - Lewisham East)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if his Department will publish guidance on the use of personal light electric vehicles.
Answered by Anthony Browne
The Department has published guidance on gov.uk on powered transporters, which are otherwise known as personal light electric vehicles. It is currently illegal to use these on public roads unless they meet all the legal requirements of a motor vehicle or of an electronically assisted pedal cycle (EAPC).
The only exception is in the case of e-scooters, which may be used legally only as part of one of the rental trial schemes established by the Department across England in 2020. The Department has published guidance for local authorities, e-scooter operators and users on the conduct of e-scooter trials. Privately owned e-scooters remain illegal to use on public roads unless they meet the legal requirements of a motor vehicle.
All road users have a duty to behave in a safe, responsible manner and to follow the rules in The Highway Code.
Asked by: Janet Daby (Labour - Lewisham East)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, when he plans to respond to correspondence of 3 April 2023 from the hon. Member for Lewisham East, case reference JD33646.
Answered by Jesse Norman - Shadow Leader of the House of Commons
The response to the honourable Member’s correspondence was sent on 9 June.
Asked by: Janet Daby (Labour - Lewisham East)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what progress he has made in installing tactile paving on all station platforms by 2025.
Answered by Huw Merriman
Approximately 60 per cent of British mainline station platforms currently have tactile paving installed. Network Rail has been funded by Government to install tactile paving at all remaining British mainline stations that are otherwise not due to receive tactile paving as part of other planned works. Network Rail has delivery plans in place and contractors engaged and the majority of the work should be completed by April 2024, with the remaining sites completed by 2025 where this best aligns with other planned work.
Asked by: Janet Daby (Labour - Lewisham East)
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) Lewisham East constituency and (b) the London Borough of Lewisham.
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.
Constituency | Lewisham East | London Borough of Lewisham |
a.) Public charging devices (see note 1) | 68 | 195 |
1) Zap-Map data counts charging devices publicly available at any given point, with decommissioned chargepoints removed from the data supplied to us. Therefore, the number of installed public chargepoints in each given year is likely to be higher as this accounts for the number decommissioned and removed from the data.
Asked by: Janet Daby (Labour - Lewisham East)
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) Lewisham East constituency and (b) the London Borough of Lewisham 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 borough of Lewisham has been awarded £196,780 to deliver 53 chargepoints through the On Street Residential Chargepoint Scheme.
Asked by: Janet Daby (Labour - Lewisham East)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will make it his policy to introduce mandatory disability awareness training for taxi and private hire vehicle drivers.
Answered by Richard Holden - Shadow Secretary of State for Transport
In its 2019 response to the report of the Chair of the Task and Finish Group on Taxi and Private Hire Vehicle (PHV) Licensing, the Department committed to requiring drivers to complete disability awareness training, when Parliamentary time allows. This remains our intention.