| Heading: |
Buses: Safety Belts |
| Question ID: |
1816113 |
| UIN: |
62375 |
| House: |
Commons |
| Date tabled: |
2025-06-24 |
| Asking Member ID: |
5191 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Adam Dance
|
| Asking Member handle: |
|
| Asking Member Twitter reference: |
Adam Dance
|
| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of mandating three point seatbelts to be fitted on coaches in (a) Yeovil constituency and (b) other rural areas. |
| Is named day: |
false |
| Date of holding answer: |
|
| Date answered: |
2025-07-01 |
| Date answer corrected: |
|
| Is holding answer: |
false |
| Is correcting answer: |
false |
| Answering Member ID: |
4943 |
| Answering Member display name: |
Simon Lightwood
|
| Answering Member handle: |
simonlightwood
|
| Answering Member Twitter reference: |
@simonlightwood
|
| Correcting Member ID: |
|
| Correcting Member display name: |
|
| Correcting Member handle: |
|
| Correcting Member Twitter reference: |
|
| Answer text: |
The Department for Transport is committed to improving road safety and incidents involving buses and coaches are rare – national casualty statistics indicate that they are one of the safest forms of road transport. Vehicle construction regulations are app... |
| Original answer text: |
|
| Comparable answer text: |
|
| Answering body ID: |
27 |
| Answering body name: |
Department for Transport |
| Tweeted: |
true |