HC Deb 01 December 1994 vol 250 cc799-800W
Ms Walley

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport if he will list the national criteria for the provision of school crossing patrols; and what discretion the police or local authorities have over providing patrols

Mr. Norris

The Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984 specifies that school crossing patrols may be provided atplaces where children cross roads on their way to or from school, or from one part of a school to another, during periods between the hours of 8.00 am in the morning and 5.30 pm in the afternoon when children are so on their way".

Subject to these requirements, the appropriate authority has discretion over providing patrols.

Ms Walley

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport if he will list the research projects undertaken by the Transport Research Laboratory into school crossing patrols and the criteria for the provision or crossing patrols.

Mr. Norris

The only TRL research project on school crossing patrols was report No. 779, published in 1977. This looked at ways in which school crossing patrol officers instruct children about crossing roads.