Rachael Maskell MP: written questions
4 Jul 2024–3 Jul 2025
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Written questions
Taxis: TrainingDepartment for TransportTabled 17 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 60516More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if she will take steps to ensure that all taxi drivers undertake safeguarding training.
Answer: The Department for Transport’s statutory guidance, published in 2020, to licensing authorities on how they should use their powers to protect children and vulnerable adults recommends that they should require taxi and private hire vehicle drivers to under...
Answered 24 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordTaxis: LicensingDepartment for TransportTabled 17 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 60515More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if she will take steps to ensure that only taxis regulated in a specific (a) combined authority or (b) local authority area will be able to pick up customers from that area.
Answer: The Department for Transport will legislate to address the important issues raised in the report, tackling the inconsistent standards of taxi and private hire vehicle driver licensing. We will work as quickly as possible and consider all options – includi...
Answered 24 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordTaxis: LicensingDepartment for TransportTabled 17 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 60514More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to page 141 of the report entitled National Audit on Group-Based Child Sexual Exploitation and Abuse, published on 16 June 2025, what steps she plans to take to close the loophole that enables ta
Answer: The Department for Transport will legislate to address the important issues raised in the report, tackling the inconsistent standards of taxi and private hire vehicle driver licensing. We will work as quickly as possible and consider all options – includi...
Answered 24 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordCrimes of Violence: TransportDepartment for TransportTabled 22 May 2025AnsweredUIN 904423More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if she will bring forward legislative proposals to create an offence of assaulting a transport worker.
Answer: There is no place for abuse or assault of any worker; everyone should be, and feel, safe whilst working. The Government values the commitment of everyone who works in the public transport sector ensuring the continued running of all the vital services whi...
Answered 2 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordBritish Transport Police: FinanceDepartment for TransportTabled 20 May 2025AnsweredUIN 53564More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what her plans are for future funding arrangements for British Transport Police (a) during and (b) after the transition to Great British Railways.
Answer: The British Transport Police’s (BTP) budget is set currently set by the British Transport Police Authority (BTPA). It is the executive non-departmental public body that oversees the Force and is their employer. BTPA sets the BTP’s budget annually followin...
Answered 27 May 2025
Original Parliament recordBritish Transport Police: FinanceDepartment for TransportTabled 20 May 2025AnsweredUIN 53563More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment she has made of the adequacy of existing levels of funding for the British Transport Police.
Answer: The British Transport Police’s (BTP) budget is set by the British Transport Police Authority (BTPA). It is the executive non-departmental public body that oversees the Force and is their employer. BTPA sets the BTP’s budget annually following proposals fr...
Answered 29 May 2025
Original Parliament recordTaxis: LicensingDepartment for TransportTabled 6 May 2025AnsweredUIN 50151More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 8 April 2025 to Question 43941 on Taxis: Licensing, when she plans to complete her consideration of options to strengthen the regulation of the sector.
Answer: The Department for Transport will consult shortly on whether to make all Local Transport Authorities responsible for taxi and private hire vehicle licensing. We believe administering the regime at this higher level would increase the consistency of standa...
Answered 12 May 2025
Original Parliament recordBus Services: ConcessionsDepartment for TransportTabled 20 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 39863More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if she will consider extending funding for disabled bus passes to include journeys made before 9:30am.
Answer: The English National Concessionary Travel Scheme (ENCTS) provides free off-peak bus travel to those with eligible disabilities and those of state pension age. The ENCTS costs around £700 million annually and any changes to the statutory obligations, such...
Answered 27 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordTaxis: FaresDepartment for TransportTabled 7 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 7468More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if she will make it her policy to ban price surging in the taxi trade.
Answer: The Government keeps all policies under review and is aware of stakeholder concerns about the current legislative and regulatory framework for taxis and private hire vehicles. To increase consistency in standards, the Department for Transport issues guida...
Answered 10 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordTaxis: LicensingDepartment for TransportTabled 7 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 7467More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if she will take steps to introduce (a) enhanced and (b) consistent standards for taxi licensing across all local authorities.
Answer: The Government keeps all policies under review and is aware of stakeholder concerns about the current legislative and regulatory framework for taxis and private hire vehicles. To increase consistency in standards, the Department for Transport issues guida...
Answered 10 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordTaxis: RegulationDepartment for TransportTabled 7 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 7466More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps she is taking to end cross-border hiring practices by licensed taxis.
Answer: The Government keeps all policies under review and is aware of stakeholder concerns about the current legislative and regulatory framework for taxis and private hire vehicles. To increase consistency in standards, the Department for Transport issues guida...
Answered 10 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordTransport: North YorkshireDepartment for TransportTabled 30 Jul 2024AnsweredUIN 2380More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, which (a) road and (b) rail projects have been cancelled in North Yorkshire.
Answer: The Chancellor set out on 29 July a range of pressures on public spending, including £2.9 billion of unfunded transport specific spending. Following this, the Secretary of State’s Written Ministerial Statement on 30 July set out that the Department is und...
Answered 6 Sept 2024
Original Parliament recordTankers: English ChannelDepartment for TransportTabled 23 Jul 2024AnsweredUIN 1299More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of requiring that oil tankers that pass through the English Channel are adequately insured.
Answer: The Government recognises the importance of addressing the safety and security of vessels that transit through the English Channel, such as the possible environmental threat posed by oil tankers in the Russian ‘shadow fleet’. At the recent European Politi...
Answered 29 Jul 2024
Original Parliament recordTaxis: LicensingDepartment for TransportTabled 18 Jul 2024AnsweredUIN 638More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether she plans to review the licensing of taxis.
Answer: The Government keeps all policies under review. We will be considering what actions can be taken to improve the existing taxi and private hire vehicle licensing system.
Answered 26 Jul 2024
Original Parliament recordBus Services: FaresDepartment for TransportTabled 18 Jul 2024AnsweredUIN 637More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what her policy is on the bus fare cap post 2024.
Answer: Delivering reliable and affordable public transport services for passengers is one of my top priorities as I know how important this is for passengers and for local growth. The government is urgently considering the most effective and affordable ways to d...
Answered 26 Jul 2024
Original Parliament recordRailways: FaresDepartment for TransportTabled 18 Jul 2024AnsweredUIN 636More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether she is taking steps to (a) improve transparency of rail fares and (b) make rail travel more accessible through lower ticket cost options.
Answer: As Passenger-in-Chief, affordability is one of the Secretary of State’s key priorities for the rail network. As part of our plan for urgent action for the railways, we are committed to reviewing the overcomplicated fares system with a view to simplifying ...
Answered 26 Jul 2024
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