Written Evidence Apr. 23 2024
Committee: Transport Committee (Department: Department for Transport)Found: drum mixers to operate at 32 tonnes and VCMs at 38.4 tonnes and 44 tonnes – this allows all three vehicles
Apr. 23 2024
Source Page: Recovered appeal: land to the north of Cambridge North Station, Cambridge (ref: 3315611 - 23 April 2024)Found: The implementation plan for a building shall show the location of electric vehicle charge points (at
Apr. 23 2024
Source Page: Regulations: consumer connectable product securityFound: listed in Annex 2 of the Windsor Framework, and contains a free movement article) charge points for electric
Apr. 23 2024
Source Page: A9 Dualling Programme and A75 Upgrade: EIR releaseFound: Slow moving vehicles, the build -up of platoons and the restrictions of travel speed to below desired
Apr. 23 2024
Source Page: A9 Dualling Programme and A75 Upgrade: EIR releaseFound: Less than 1% of freight vehicles were foreign registered.
Mentions:
1: Steve Double (Con - St Austell and Newquay) vehicles, as well as defence and cyber-security. - Speech Link
2: Richard Thomson (SNP - Gordon) To take one example that is most closely associated with the increased demand for CRMs, electric vehicles - Speech Link
3: Alan Mak (Con - Havant) and tin for our electronics; and rare earth elements for electric cars and wind turbines. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Grahame Morris (Lab - Easington) The Railway Industry Association has urged the Government to upgrade or replace approximately 2,600 vehicles - Speech Link
2: Iain Stewart (Con - Milton Keynes South) whole line are prohibitive, so we can have what is known as discontinuous electrification with battery electric - Speech Link
3: Huw Merriman (Con - Bexhill and Battle) to rolling stock manufacturing, since 2012 the Government have commissioned 8,000 new rolling-stock vehicles—that - Speech Link
4: Huw Merriman (Con - Bexhill and Battle) Over the next two to three years, we envisage contracts being signed for over 2,000 new vehicles, with - Speech Link
Apr. 23 2024
Source Page: UK Government honours exceptional exporters with prestigious Made in the UK, Sold to the World AwardsFound: Winners include SMEs operating across the UK, such as Warner’s Distillery, Munro Vehicles and CIGA Healthcare
Asked by: Bob Blackman (Conservative - Harrow East)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what discussions he has had with the Mayor of London on licensing electric black cabs.
Answered by Guy Opperman - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Transport)
Whilst the Secretary of State for Transport has not had any direct discussion with the Mayor of London on licensing electric taxis, revised best practice guidance was issued to all licensing authorities in November last year recommending they enable as many types of vehicles as possible to be licensed. Licensing authorities should give very careful consideration to a policy that automatically rules out particular types of vehicle or prescribes only one type or a small number of types of vehicle.