Advance notice of September evidence session on young and novice drivers

Transport Select Committee

EVIDENCE SESSION: Young and novice drivers

Wednesday 2 September 2020 at 09.30, with broadcast session beginning at from 10.15.

This is the first evidence session of the Committee’s relaunched inquiry into Young and novice drivers. Committee Members will hear from road safety campaigners, academics, and road safety charities.

The session will explore:

• The human cost of collisions involving young and novice drivers; road safety campaigns, and the policy changes campaigners would like to see;
• The reasons young and novice drivers are at a higher risk when it comes to road traffic collisions and casualties;
• Policy options and interventions which could reduce the risks to young and novice drivers;
• The results of research undertaken into these interventions; and,
• The effects of the coronavirus pandemic on issues affecting young and novice drivers.

Please note that Parliament has stopped all non-essential visitor access to both Houses due to the circumstances around coronavirus. The second session, scheduled to start at 10.15 am, will be available to watch online, and a transcript for both sessions will be published on the website a few days afterwards.

Witnesses

At 09.30, the Committee will hear from road safety campaigners in private (a transcript will be made available in the following days):

• George Atkinson, Road safety campaigner
• Ian Greenwood, Road safety campaigner.

At 10.15, this part of the session will be broadcast live online:

• Elizabeth Box, Head of Research, RAC Foundation
• Dr Neale Kinnear, Head of Behavioural Science, Transport Research Laboratory
• Mary Williams OBE, Chief Executive, Brake.

Further information:

• Inquiry: Young and novice drivers

Read the written evidence which the Committee received in the previous session:

https://www.parliament.uk/business/committees/committees-a-z/commons-select/transport-committee/inquiries/parliament-2017/road-safety-young-novice-drivers-17-19/publications/

Committee membership: Huw Merriman MP, Chair (Con, Bexhill and Battle); Ruth Cadbury MP (Lab, Brentford and Isleworth); Lilian Greenwood MP (Lab, Nottingham South); Simon Jupp MP (Con, East Devon); Robert Largan MP (Con, High Peak); Chris Loder MP (Con, West Dorset); Karl McCartney MP (Con, Lincoln); Grahame Morris MP (Lab, Easington); Gavin Newlands MP (SNP, Paisley and Renfrewshire North); Greg Smith MP (Con, Buckingham); Sam Tarry MP (Lab, Ilford South).