Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to Answer of 19 July 2023 to Question 194262 on Public Transport, if he will provide details of the interventions conducted in Scotland and the locations where they took place.

My answer of 19 July referred to the 33 interventions the Government put in place to address the HGV Driver Shortage. Interventions that were not in devolved policy areas were applicable in Scotland. These include:

• Temporary measures to increase efficiency in supply chains including a temporary relaxation of drivers’ hours, and extension of cabotage rights for foreign hauliers,
• Grant funding to Road to Logistics and Think Logistics to support the training of new HGV drivers,
• Measures to expand HGV driver testing capacity and improve licencing processes,
• Initiatives to attract drivers back to the sector, promote it more widely and provide flexible support funding for jobseekers and those on Universal Credit, and
• Temporary measures in relation to the fuel supply chain and to provide economic support to the haulage industry.

It would not be possible to collate data on where in Scotland these interventions were utilised without incurring disproportionate cost.