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Christina Rees: ...offences for fatal collisions. It is a pleasure to see you in the Chair, Mr Rosindell. E-petition 323926, started by Louise Smyth and Helen Wood, with the title “Tougher sentences for hit and run drivers who cause death”, opened on 20 July 2020 and closed on 20 January 2021, and received 104,324 signatures. It states: “The maximum penalty for failure to stop after an incident is...
Baroness Stowell of Beeston: .... The upshot is that pedicabs can ply for hire in any street or place in Greater London. They are acting with impunity and in competition with black cabs, and where appropriate with licensed taxis, for custom. To state the obvious, those vehicles are subject to a range of regulations and exacting standards. It will not surprise the Committee that this impunity and the full knowledge that...
Grant Shapps: My hon. Friend is right. As the House is bored of hearing, I have been driving an electric car for the past two and a half years, and they are fantastic. People need to be convinced that they will be able to fill up and add energy when required, which is why we have put £2.5 billion into the process not just for grants for those cars but for the infrastructure itself. My hon. Friend will be...
Janet Finch-Saunders: ...must also be given to assisting a green transport network. At 1,002 charging points, Wales has just 3.8 per cent of the UK’s total charging points. Just this week, I've spoken to our taxi operators, who are now asking whether there will be any Welsh Government support for them towards an electric or zero-emission vehicle. This Welsh Government has set a target that all buses, as well as...
Sam Tarry: I beg to move amendment 1, in clause 1, page 1, line 19, after “driving” insert “(assessed in accordance with DVLA standards and associated sanctions)”. This amendment would provide that a driver’s “risk to road safety while driving” is assessed in line with DVLA standards and not the individual assessment of the licensing authority. It is an honour to serve under your...
...mean the same sort of thing as it means in the EU state aid law rules, which is probably, though not certainly, right, it catches an awful lot of things. It famously caught the question of whether taxi cabs in London could drive in bus lanes, according to the European Court, even though one might struggle to see quite why that affected trade between member states. The real problem is that...
Nicholas Fletcher: ...little it is making life’s many tasks more manageable. So, which jobs will be affected and—more importantly —when? Let us start with jobs in call centres and fast food restaurants, as well as driving jobs, which, yes, means every taxi driver, every delivery driver and every HGV driver. In total, that amounts to over 600,000 people. Warehouse workers, shop assistants, postal workers,...
Delyth Jewell: ...closed, and Ysbyty Ystrad Fawr in Ystrad Mynach opened without an A&E. With longer ambulance waiting times, the British Medical Association has warned that patients in Wales are having to use taxis or be at the mercy of their GPs having to drive them to A&E, and this will be worse in the south-east, and the Rhymney valley especially, where people have to travel further to get to their A&E...
Jonathan Buckley: ...of Backlog and Delay". How many of us have received correspondence from constituents who are unable to book an MOT test? How many constituents have contacted us because they are unable to get a driving test? How many major planning applications have been delayed in the system, some for over 200 weeks? Rural roads are unsurfaced because of continual legal disputes between the Department and...
Royston Smith: ...like Southampton, one is never more than a few feet away from someone who makes a living from or has their standard of living enhanced by the cruise industry: from Solent Stevedores to the many taxi drivers, dozens of suppliers, Associated British Ports operators, students with jobs in hospitality and retirees working in the terminals during busy times—part time, full time, young and...
Humza Yousaf: ...authorisation processes to go through, but we do not envisage any challenges with gaining the required approval. All going well, some of those military personnel will be ready to be deployed and driving ambulances this weekend. As always, my thanks go to the Army for its responsiveness. I have also reached out to the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service, and I am glad to say that, in typical...
Chris Heaton-Harris: ...Member for Darlington (Peter Gibson) on his success in the private Members’ Bill ballot, on bringing the attention of the House to the important issue of unsuitable people obtaining licences to drive taxis and private hire vehicles, and on the excellent way in which he introduced the debate. Let me point out to some Members that my hon. Friend is in charge of this legislation. Private...
Lord Hendy: ..., in business on their own account, with their own clients or customers, will be unaffected by the Bill. These are, by and large, the professionals. Examples are the owner-driver of the London taxicab or Hackney carriage—“mushers”, as they are known in London—the self-employed painter and decorator, the jobbing electrician, the gigging musician, the novelist, the barrister, of...
Charlotte Nichols: ...fundamentally gives me my freedom and ability to visit new places, but without public transport, we’d both be stuck. I was brought up using public transport and try not to depend on anyone to drive me places, so I’m quite confident and independent. My biggest challenge with public transport is the amount of time involved with planning. A trip can take me double, or even triple the time...
John Swinney: On 26 May, the First Minister made a statement to Parliament outlining our ambitious programme to drive the nation’s recovery from the Covid crisis. Central to that programme would be the delivery of the commitments that we set out in our first steps plan during the election campaign. In the 100 days since the First Minister was elected by Parliament, we have applied a clear focus to...
Sadiq Khan: ...a spark ignition LPG engine is Euro 4. Benchmarking emissions performance against the Euro standards can only be done in a laboratory emissions test environment using the legislated type-approval drive cycles. The MOT test does not measure NOx emissions. With taxis converted to LPG, the diesel engine is replaced by a new (Euro 6) spark ignition (petrol) engine, which is then converted to...
Sadiq Khan: Yes, I am. I set out in my response to Mayor’s Question 2020/1059, the majority of commitments in my Taxi and Private Hire Action Plan have been delivered. Of the 39 commitments I made to the taxi and private hire trades, 29 have been completed, two have been superseded by the Department for Transport’s (DfT) Statutory Standards and a further five require legislative change which I...
Sadiq Khan: ...Vision Zero objective of eradicating deaths and serious injuries from our roads and making London a safer, healthier and greener place. The COVID-19 pandemic has had an unprecedented impact on the taxi and private hire industry in London, and licensees are facing significant personal and economic challenges. In light of this, and after carefully considering the responses to the earlier...
Karen Bradley: ...the buses might be every half hour, but it is not easy and it takes a significant amount of time to get to the Staffordshire Moorlands. Even if someone can get to Stoke-on-Trent station by taking a taxi or finding a very amenable friend to give them a lift, to get from the station to Leek—which is where I live: the centre of the constituency—they could drive along the main Leek road,...
Sadiq Khan: ...and Police Community Support Officers from the Metropolitan Police Service’s Roads and Transport Policing Command. Where intelligence and feedback shows a high level of misuse at particular taxi-dedicated rapid charge point (RCP) locations by other vehicles, TfL increases patrols at these locations. It is important to note that, if the driver is in the vehicle, they may drive off from...