Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether the Government plans to use incident data collected by the British Horse Society as a safety performance indicator for monitoring (a) the number of horses killed or seriously injured on roads and (b) the number of road incidents involving horses.

A main focus for this Government is to make our roads safer for all users, including horse riders and carriage drivers.

Our new Road Safety Strategy was published on 07 January and sets out our vision for a safer future on our roads for all. The Strategy sets an ambitious target to reduce the number of people killed or seriously injured on British roads by 65% by 2035. This target will focus the efforts of road safety partners across Britain, with measures to improve road design, protect vulnerable road users, and review motoring offences.

Additionally, the Strategy commits to monitoring a variety of Safety Performance Indicators, and these will be kept under review. The numbers of horses killed or seriously injured on roads or incidents involving horses are not among these Safety Performance Indicators.