Meetings and Minutes

2023

APPG for Transport Safety has adopted the following policy priorities for transport safety

Click here to access the policy priorities document.

APPG for Transport Safety wrote a letter to the Prime Minister urging him to adopt the measures in GSR as part of type approval for the UK.

Letter to the Prime Minister can be accessed here – 9th August 2023
Reply from the Secretary of State for Transport, Mark Harper – 12th September 2023

2022

Annual General Meeting for 2022-23 on Monday, 12th December 2022, 15:00 – 17:00, Terrace Dining Room A – House of Commons – In person only

Annual General Meeting on Monday, 11th July 2022, 16:00 – 17:00, Room B – 1 Parliament Street – In person only.

Joint meeting of APPG for Transport Safety and APPG for Cycling and Walking with Baroness Vere, on 23rd May 2022 at 16:30 in Portcullis House – Road Safety

2021

Annual General Meeting 14.00 on 19th October 2021 – Election of officers, approval of accounts etc.

Meeting 14.00 on 18th May 2021 – Global road safety.

Speakers include:

Dr Nhan Tran, Coordinator, Safety and Mobility, WHO WHO Nhan Tran TS APPG
Jessica Truong, Secretary General, Towards Zero Foundation Transport APPG May 2021 Jess Truong
Saul Billingsley, General Secretary, FIA Foundation: Saul Billingsley Transport Safety APPG May 2021

Journalist Laura Laker will launch the Media Reporting Guidelines for road traffic collisions.

Laura Laker media guidelines launch presentation with audio

Laura Laker – Media guidelines launch UK

Meeting on 16th March 2021 – Drink and drug driving and wider alcohol harm. With APPG on Alcohol Harm.

Meeting on 26th January 2021 – Vehicle safety standards.

The presentations from this meeting are shown below.

UK UNECE and Vehicle Standards APPG

Vehicle Safety and GSR APPG

Euro NCAP APPG

2020

Officers were elected at the meeting on 16th September 2020 and the group was re-registered with the House of Commons, having lapsed in late 2019. The minutes are here: APPG Minutes 16Sept2020

The group held a meeting with the road safety minister Baroness Vere on 19th November 2020. The minister was asked a number of questions. She undertook to write to the group regarding the delay in publishing the interim road casualty statistics and the Government’s position on adoption of the General Safety Regulation which will set new safety standards for vehicles sold in Europe from 2022.

The Minister’s letters are here:

Minutes dated before 2020 are available upon request.