§ Mr. WhittingdaleTo ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions what consultations were undertaken prior to the decision to exclude insulin-dependent diabetics from holding driving licences for categories C1 and D1 vehicles. [24223]
§ Ms Glenda JacksonThe Department consulted over 100 representative organisations in August 1996 on a number of proposals for implementing the requirements of the Second EC Driving Licence Directive (91/439). These included the proposal that drivers with entitlements to drive vehicles in categories C1 and D1 on the strength of an ordinary car licence should, on expiry of their current licence, have to meet the higher health standards required for those categories by the Directive if they wished to renew those entitlements.
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§ Mr. WhittingdaleTo ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions if he will list the number of accidents for each of the last five years involving vehicles in categories C1 and Dl driven by insulin-dependent diabetics. [24222]
§ Ms Glenda JacksonNo information is collected nationally on the medical conditions of drivers involved in road accidents. It is not, therefore, possible to supply the information requested.
1992–93 1993–94 1994–95 1995–96 1996–97 Total April 0 0 0 1 0 1 May 0 1 0 0 0 1 June 2 0 2 0 0 4 July 1 2 1 2 0 6 August 2 0 0 0 0 2 September 0 0 0 0 1 1 October 0 0 3 0 0 3 November 1 0 0 0 1 2 December 2 2 1 1 0 6 January 0 0 1 0 0 1 February 0 1 0 0 0 1 March 3 2 1 1 0 7 Total 11 8 9 5 2 35 The figures cover all railways in Great Britain, and are published in the Chief Inspector of Railways Annual Reports on Railway Safety, copies of which are placed in the Library of the House.
§ Mr. BrakeTo ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions if he will list the monthly number of railway fatalities per passenger mile in each of the last five years. [24438]
Death or injury rate: passenger Train accidents per billion passenger miles Movement accidents per billion passenger miles Non-movement accidents per billion passenger journeys Killed Major Minor Killed Major Minor Killed Major Minor 1991–92 0.08 0.75 12.01 1.16 3.03 90.65 0.63 63.64 2,091 1992–93 0.00 0.13 2.67 0.68 3.35 98.93 1.29 100.26 2,395 1993–94 0.00 0.22 5.67 0.62 1.80 95.37 1.30 103.05 2,793 1994–95 0.14 0.50 8.17 0.55 2.65 98.41 1.26 85.28 2,685 1995–96 0.04 0.04 2.24 0.29 1.91 102.91 1.23 98.65 2,819
Train accidents per passenger miles Movement accidents per billion passenger miles Non movement accidents per billion passenger journeys Killed Injured Killed Injured Killed Injured 1996–97 0.04 6.50 0.40 20.21 1.80 1,025.80 New accident regulations were introduced in 1996–97.
Under the new regulations—the Reporting of Injuries, Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences Regulations, 1995 (RIDDOR 95) there is no distinction between a major and minor injury to a passenger.
The reporting trigger is that the person is taken from the site of the accident to hospital for treatment.