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Written Question
Blue Badge Scheme: Children
Wednesday 8th May 2024

Asked by: Oliver Heald (Conservative - North East Hertfordshire)

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many blue badges were issued due to children having a medical condition in 2023.

Answered by Guy Opperman

The Department for Transport does not collect this information. Each local authority is responsible for their own data retention policies and may or may not hold this information.

Speech in Commons Chamber - Fri 19 Nov 2021
Pedicabs (London) Bill

"Do pedicab drivers need a driving licence? Do they require insurance? If not, it seems that that could be dangerous...."
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Speech in General Committees - Wed 19 Dec 2018
Draft Aviation Safety (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019

"I do not want to detain the Committee for long. I have a question on the amendment of regulation 2111/2005, on the banned operator list. At the moment, the banning of an air carrier is based on information from right across the EU, so if an air carrier has performed …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 19 Jun 2018
Confidence in the Secretary of State for Transport

"My right hon. Friend will know of the misery—because I have told him—on my line, with five stations where people’s lives have been blighted over recent weeks, but does he agree that privatisation does have one merit, which is that we can get rid of the operator if there is …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 04 Jun 2018
Rail Timetabling

"At Letchworth station this morning, I spoke to passengers who have suffered great delays and many cancellations, children going to school whose train had been cancelled—one of them in tears—and workers who have been told, “You can’t keep on being late like this.” Is it not time that Govia Thameslink …..."
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Speech in General Committees - Mon 27 Nov 2017
Draft Community Drivers’ Hours Offences (Enforcement) regulations 2017

"Will the Minister give way?..."
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Speech in General Committees - Mon 27 Nov 2017
Draft Community Drivers’ Hours Offences (Enforcement) regulations 2017

"I am grateful to my right hon. Friend for giving way. One point that the trade bodies made was that they would not want an offence that occurred before a driver joined their operator company to be scored against the operator’s score compliance risk, because that could affect the operator’s …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 23 Oct 2017
Automated and Electric Vehicles Bill

"Does my right hon. Friend agree that it is important that the message should not be that an electric car or an automated vehicle is an unpleasant driving experience, and that the only kind of car that is worth driving is a classic car? The modern car is a joy …..."
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Written Question
Taxis: Greater London
Thursday 28th April 2016

Asked by: Oliver Heald (Conservative - North East Hertfordshire)

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will take steps to maintain the ability of London taxi drivers exclusively to ply for hire.

Answered by Andrew Jones

The Government is responsible for the legislative structure within which local licensing authorities deliver the licensing regime for taxis and private hire vehicles. Enforcement of the licensing regime, including ensuring that private hire vehicles do not illegally ply for hire, is therefore a matter for local licensing authorities and the police.

Written Question
Taxis
Thursday 28th April 2016

Asked by: Oliver Heald (Conservative - North East Hertfordshire)

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what his policy is on allowing private hire cars to ply for hire.

Answered by Andrew Jones

Private hire vehicles cannot legally ply for hire.

The Government is responsible for the legislative structure within which local licensing authorities deliver the licensing regime for taxis and private hire vehicles. Enforcement of the licensing regime, including ensuring that private hire vehicles do not illegally ply for hire, is a matter for local licensing authorities and the police.