Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 8 September 2026 to Question 21975 on Drivers' Hours, on what date her Department began considering whether electronic records could provide an alternative means of recording compliance with domestic drivers' hours rules.

The department began substantively considering the use of electronic records as an alternative means of demonstrating compliance with domestic drivers’ hours rules in 2023. In addition, departmental records suggest legal advice was sought in 2019 confirming the technical requirements of paper drivers’ hours records in the 1987 Regulations.