Archived government news
April 2025
Guidance: Government fleet commitment Thursday, 17 April 2025
Guidance: TAG: forthcoming changes Thursday, 17 April 2025
Guidance: TAG unit A5-2 aviation appraisal Thursday, 17 April 2025
Guidance: TAG unit A1-3 user and provider impacts Thursday, 17 April 2025
Guidance: TAG unit A2-2 induced investment Thursday, 17 April 2025
February 2025
Guidance: Liquid explosive detection systems (LEDS) for aviation security Thursday, 13 February 2025
Guidance: Screening liquids less than 100ml: equipment Thursday, 13 February 2025
Guidance: Explosive detection systems for cabin baggage (EDSCB) – C3 approv… Thursday, 13 February 2025
Research: Evaluation of the £2 bus fare cap Wednesday, 12 February 2025
Transparency data: Consolidated Active Travel Fund: local transport authori… Wednesday, 12 February 2025
Transparency data: Active Travel Fund: local transport authority allocation… Wednesday, 12 February 2025
Guidance: Renewable Transport Fuel Obligation statistics: pre-release acces… Wednesday, 12 February 2025
Statistical data set: Renewable Transport Fuel Obligation statistics: data … Wednesday, 12 February 2025
Statistical data set: Sea passenger statistics: data tables (SPAS) Wednesday, 12 February 2025
Official Statistics: Developing faster indicators of transport activity Wednesday, 12 February 2025
Press release: Transport Minister kicks off regional tour with communities … Wednesday, 12 February 2025
Press release: Support for Ukrainians continues as government extends drivi… Monday, 10 February 2025
Statement to Parliament: Driving eligibility extension for certain Ukrainia… Monday, 10 February 2025
Consultation outcome: Extension of Ukraine driving licence exchange Friday, 07 February 2025
Open consultation: Implementing the Carbon Offsetting and Reduction Scheme … Friday, 07 February 2025
Press release: Millions to see faster journeys as government green lights £… Friday, 07 February 2025
Press release: Spades in the ground on £295 million West Midlands Metro ext… Thursday, 06 February 2025
Transparency data: DfT major projects: appointment letters for Senior Respo… Wednesday, 05 February 2025
Official Statistics: Electric vehicle public charging infrastructure statis… Wednesday, 05 February 2025
Guidance: Apply for grant funding to transport freight by rail and water Tuesday, 04 February 2025
Call for evidence outcome: Mode shift grants review Tuesday, 04 February 2025
Guidance: Screening liquids less than 100ml: equipment Monday, 03 February 2025
Guidance: Liquid explosive detection systems (LEDS) for aviation security Monday, 03 February 2025
Guidance: Current approaches to product marking Monday, 03 February 2025
January 2025
Policy paper: Airport capacity and expansion: a government update Thursday, 30 January 2025
Transparency data: Department for Transport’s accounting officer assessment… Thursday, 30 January 2025
Transparency data: DfT: special advisers’ gifts, hospitality and meetings, … Thursday, 30 January 2025
Transparency data: DfT: ministerial gifts, hospitality, travel and meetings… Thursday, 30 January 2025
Transparency data: DfT: ministerial gifts, hospitality, travel and meetings… Thursday, 30 January 2025
Transparency data: DfT: senior officials’ business expenses and meetings, J… Thursday, 30 January 2025
Corporate report: HS2 vocational qualifications report, 2022 to 2023 Thursday, 30 January 2025
Transparency data: DfT: spend control data for July to September 2024 Thursday, 30 January 2025
FOI release: DfT: FOI and EIR disclosure log 2024 Thursday, 30 January 2025
Official Statistics: Rail factsheet: 2024 Thursday, 30 January 2025
Transparency data: DfT: spending over £25,000, August 2024 Thursday, 30 January 2025
Transparency data: DfT: spending over £25,000, July 2024 Thursday, 30 January 2025
Consultation outcome: Sustainable aviation fuels revenue certainty mechanis… Wednesday, 29 January 2025
Statement to Parliament: Transport and growth update: airport expansion and… Wednesday, 29 January 2025
Research: Construction standards for e-scooters Wednesday, 29 January 2025
Driving abroad Wednesday, 29 January 2025
Consultation outcome: Smarter regulation: proposed changes to legislation f… Tuesday, 28 January 2025
Noise from roads, trains or planes Friday, 24 January 2025
Transparency data: Multi-year clean maritime demonstration competition Friday, 24 January 2025
Operational standards for small vessels Thursday, 23 January 2025
Parking fines and penalty charge notices Thursday, 23 January 2025
Notice: Testing of pressure relief valves (PRVs) fitted to LPG road tankers Thursday, 23 January 2025
Transparency data: Highways maintenance funding allocations Thursday, 23 January 2025
Guidance: Disability, accessibility and Blue Badge statistics: pre-release … Wednesday, 22 January 2025
Statistical data set: Transport: disability and accessibility data tables (… Wednesday, 22 January 2025
Statistical data set: Taxis, private hire vehicles and their drivers (TAXI) Wednesday, 22 January 2025
Statistical data set: Blue Badge scheme statistics: data tables (DIS) Wednesday, 22 January 2025
Accredited official statistics: Taxi and private hire vehicle statistics, E… Wednesday, 22 January 2025
Notice: Great British Railways online rail ticket retailing Wednesday, 22 January 2025
Speech: Future of Flight challenge Tuesday, 21 January 2025
Press release: Digital driving licence coming this year Tuesday, 21 January 2025
Speech: Future of Flight challenge Tuesday, 21 January 2025
Press release: Simpler train travel for the South East as contactless ticke… Monday, 20 January 2025
Call for evidence outcome: Non-road mobile machinery: decarbonisation optio… Friday, 17 January 2025
Riding an electric bike: the rules Thursday, 16 January 2025
Guidance: XC Trains Limited 2023 rail contract Thursday, 16 January 2025
Open call for evidence: Integrated National Transport Strategy: a call for … Thursday, 16 January 2025
Transparency data: DfT Government Major Projects Portfolio data, 2024 Thursday, 16 January 2025
Transparency data: Multi-year clean maritime demonstration competition Thursday, 16 January 2025
Press release: £30 million to clean up sea travel and turbocharge coastal e… Thursday, 16 January 2025
Press release: £30 million to clean up sea travel and turbocharge coastal e… Thursday, 16 January 2025
Official Statistics: Daily domestic transport use by mode Wednesday, 15 January 2025
Press release: Roads Minister tests the ‘Pothole Pro’ for National Pothole … Wednesday, 15 January 2025
Notice: Train company prosecutions Tuesday, 14 January 2025
Transparency data: DfT and transport NDPB organisational charts Tuesday, 14 January 2025
Press release: Back and bigger than ever: rail sale offers up to half price… Tuesday, 14 January 2025
Statement to Parliament: Changes to international law: maritime Tuesday, 14 January 2025
Press release: Back and bigger than ever: rail sale offers up to half price… Friday, 10 January 2025
Decision: Old Oak Common (Great Western Mainline track access): Transport a… Thursday, 09 January 2025
Research: Self-driving vehicles: regaining situational awareness Thursday, 09 January 2025
Notice: Train company prosecutions Thursday, 09 January 2025
Research: Active Travel Fund tranche 2: stage 2 process evaluation Thursday, 09 January 2025
Research: Active Travel Fund tranche 2: government response and peer review Thursday, 09 January 2025
Research: Active Travel Fund tranche 2: evaluation baseline Thursday, 09 January 2025
Research: Active Travel Fund tranche 2: stage 1 process evaluation Thursday, 09 January 2025
Decision: Cambridge South East Transport route: Transport and Works Act ord… Thursday, 09 January 2025
Accredited official statistics: UK international sea passengers: November 2… Wednesday, 08 January 2025
Official Statistics: Developing faster indicators of transport activity Wednesday, 08 January 2025
Statistical data set: Sea passenger statistics: data tables (SPAS) Wednesday, 08 January 2025
Statement to Parliament: Phasing out the sale of new petrol and diesel cars… Monday, 06 January 2025
Open consultation: Extension of Ukraine driving licence exchange Monday, 06 January 2025
Correspondence: Secretary of State for Transport's expectations for how ope… Monday, 06 January 2025
FOI release: DfT: FOI and EIR disclosure log 2024 Friday, 03 January 2025
Guidance: TransPennine Express Railways 2023 OLR rail services contract Thursday, 02 January 2025
Transparency data: DfT: prompt payment data 2024 to 2025 Thursday, 02 January 2025
Guidance: £3 national bus fare cap Wednesday, 01 January 2025
Press release: Bus passengers to save hundreds as government prevents cliff… Wednesday, 01 January 2025
Press release: Greener flights ahead for UK aviation Wednesday, 01 January 2025
December 2024
Notice: Remote delivery of dangerous goods driver training extension: autho… Tuesday, 31 December 2024
Consultation outcome: Increasing the weight limit for fuel tankers Tuesday, 24 December 2024
Open consultation: Zero emission vans: regulatory flexibility Tuesday, 24 December 2024
Consultation outcome: Street works access: electric vehicle chargepoint ope… Tuesday, 24 December 2024
Guidance: Cross-pavement solutions for charging electric vehicles Tuesday, 24 December 2024
Open consultation: Phasing out sales of new petrol and diesel cars from 203… Tuesday, 24 December 2024
Guidance: How to reinstate a road after doing street works Tuesday, 24 December 2024
Guidance: Temporary relaxation of the enforcement of the assimilated (EU re… Monday, 23 December 2024
Transparency data: Community rail partnerships and accreditation status Monday, 23 December 2024
Notice: Marking of non-UN cylinders: temporary exemption Monday, 23 December 2024
Decision: Leeds to Micklefield scheme: Transport and Works Act order Friday, 20 December 2024
Press release: Seven million more potholes to be filled next year as public… Friday, 20 December 2024
Transparency data: Highways maintenance funding allocations Friday, 20 December 2024
Consultation outcome: Street works: fines and lane rental surplus funds Friday, 20 December 2024
Guidance: Use of voluntary schemes as evidence of RTFO and SAF Mandate comp… Thursday, 19 December 2024
Guidance: About the SAF Mandate Thursday, 19 December 2024
Guidance: SAF Mandate compliance Thursday, 19 December 2024
Guidance: RTFO and SAF Mandate recognised verifiers Thursday, 19 December 2024
Guidance: RTFO and SAF Mandate third party assurance Thursday, 19 December 2024
Research: Transport and transport technology: public attitudes tracker Thursday, 19 December 2024
Statistical data set: Vehicles (TSGB09) Thursday, 19 December 2024
Guidance: Transport energy and environment statistics information Thursday, 19 December 2024
Statistical data set: Transport energy and environment: data tables (ENV) Thursday, 19 December 2024
Statistical data set: Road safety statistics: data tables Thursday, 19 December 2024
Statement to Parliament: Car practical driving test waiting times Wednesday, 18 December 2024
Guidance: Northern Railway 2022 OLR rail services contract Wednesday, 18 December 2024
Research: National longer heavier vehicle trial Wednesday, 18 December 2024
Transparency data: Bus service improvement plans: local transport authority… Wednesday, 18 December 2024
Statistical data set: Bus statistics data tables Wednesday, 18 December 2024
Accredited official statistics: Annual bus statistics: year ending March 20… Wednesday, 18 December 2024
Accredited official statistics: Quarterly bus fares statistics: July to Sep… Wednesday, 18 December 2024
Statement to Parliament: HS2 6-monthly report to Parliament: December 2024 Tuesday, 17 December 2024
Consultation outcome: Proposed changes to bus franchising guidance Tuesday, 17 December 2024
Guidance: Setting up a bus franchising scheme Tuesday, 17 December 2024
Press release: Better buses on the way as government introduces new legisla… Tuesday, 17 December 2024
Corporate report: DfT: gender pay gap report and data 2024 Tuesday, 17 December 2024
Transparency data: DfT payments to passenger rail operators under emergency… Tuesday, 17 December 2024
Press release: HS2 Ltd Chair to step down Tuesday, 17 December 2024
Statement to Parliament: London Luton Airport: development consent decision… Tuesday, 17 December 2024
Research: Understanding seafarer fatigue in ferry operations Tuesday, 17 December 2024
Consultation outcome: Night flight restrictions: Heathrow, Gatwick and Stan… Tuesday, 17 December 2024
Statistical data set: Road condition statistics: data tables (RDC) Tuesday, 17 December 2024
Guidance: Road condition statistics: pre-release access Tuesday, 17 December 2024
Guidance: Road condition statistics information Tuesday, 17 December 2024
Official Statistics: Road conditions in England to March 2024 Tuesday, 17 December 2024
Guidance: Road condition statistics: Technical note Tuesday, 17 December 2024
Press release: UK sets out next steps to help decarbonise aviation sector Monday, 16 December 2024
Open consultation: Implementing the Carbon Offsetting and Reduction Scheme … Monday, 16 December 2024
Transparency data: Port facility security officer training: list of approve… Friday, 13 December 2024
Guidance: Explosive detection systems (EDS) for aviation security Friday, 13 December 2024
Guidance: Liquid explosive detection systems (LEDS) for aviation security Friday, 13 December 2024
Guidance: Security scanners (SSc) for aviation security Friday, 13 December 2024
Driving disqualifications Friday, 13 December 2024
Statistical data set: Transport energy and environment: data tables (ENV) Thursday, 12 December 2024
Guidance: Transport energy and environment statistics: pre-release access Thursday, 12 December 2024
Statistical data set: Driving instructor statistics (INS) Thursday, 12 December 2024
Statistical data set: Driving test statistics (DRT) Thursday, 12 December 2024
Guidance: Transport energy and environment statistics information Thursday, 12 December 2024
Run a local bus service Wednesday, 11 December 2024
Statistical data set: Port and domestic waterborne freight statistics: data… Wednesday, 11 December 2024
Statistical data set: Sea passenger statistics: data tables (SPAS) Wednesday, 11 December 2024
Official Statistics: Daily domestic transport use by mode Wednesday, 11 December 2024
Accredited official statistics: Sea passenger statistics, all routes: 2023 … Wednesday, 11 December 2024
Official Statistics: Developing faster indicators of transport activity Wednesday, 11 December 2024
Statistical data set: HGV drivers vacancies (RFS03) Tuesday, 10 December 2024
Guidance: Road freight statistics: pre-release access Tuesday, 10 December 2024
Guidance: Recognition of EU declarations of conformity for the placing on t… Tuesday, 10 December 2024
Accredited official statistics: Road freight statistics: July 2023 to June … Tuesday, 10 December 2024
Statistical data set: Domestic road freight activity (RFS01) Tuesday, 10 December 2024
Call for evidence outcome: Registering historic, classic, rebuilt vehicles … Monday, 09 December 2024
Renew or change a lorry or bus licence Friday, 06 December 2024
Guidance: Stopping up orders Friday, 06 December 2024
Press release: Nearly £1 million investment for British coastal towns to gr… Friday, 06 December 2024
Statutory guidance: Republic of Belarus sanctions: guidance Thursday, 05 December 2024
Statistical data set: Quarterly traffic estimates (TRA25) Thursday, 05 December 2024
Guidance: Road traffic, travel time measures and vehicle speed compliance s… Thursday, 05 December 2024
Statistical data set: Average speed, delay and reliability of travel times … Thursday, 05 December 2024
Guidance: Road congestion and travel time statistics information Thursday, 05 December 2024
Guidance: Security scanners (SSc) for aviation security Wednesday, 04 December 2024
Statement to Parliament: Public ownership: railway passenger services Wednesday, 04 December 2024
Press release: First train services to return to public ownership revealed Wednesday, 04 December 2024
Press release: First train services to return to public ownership revealed Wednesday, 04 December 2024
Press release: Transport Minister visits Brighton to see UK’s most accessib… Tuesday, 03 December 2024
Open consultation: RVAR 2010 exemption: Chiltern Railways passenger informa… Tuesday, 03 December 2024
Guidance: TAG: appraisal tables for presenting a business case Tuesday, 03 December 2024
Form: Apply to close or divert a highway Tuesday, 03 December 2024
November 2024
Transparency data: DfT: business appointment rules advice, 2024 Thursday, 28 November 2024
Transparency data: DfT: senior officials’ business expenses and meetings, A… Thursday, 28 November 2024
Statement to Parliament: Integrated National Transport Strategy for England Thursday, 28 November 2024
Speech: Integrated National Transport Strategy Thursday, 28 November 2024
Press release: Transport Secretary unveils her vision for integrated transp… Thursday, 28 November 2024
Open call for evidence: Integrated National Transport Strategy: a call for … Thursday, 28 November 2024
Guidance: TAG unit A2-4 productivity impacts Thursday, 28 November 2024
Guidance: DfT value for money framework Thursday, 28 November 2024
Guidance: TAG unit A2-3 employment effects Thursday, 28 November 2024
Guidance: TAG unit A2-1 wider economic impacts Thursday, 28 November 2024
Guidance: TAG unit A2-2 induced investment Thursday, 28 November 2024
Guidance: Bus and concessionary travel statistics information Wednesday, 27 November 2024
Statistical data set: Bus statistics data tables Wednesday, 27 November 2024
Consultation outcome: Draft policy proposals for exempting defence-related … Wednesday, 27 November 2024
Accredited official statistics: Annual bus statistics: year ending March 20… Wednesday, 27 November 2024
Official Statistics: Concessionary travel statistics: year ending March 202… Wednesday, 27 November 2024
Press release: Revamped taskforce set to deliver a sustainable vision for a… Monday, 25 November 2024
Press release: Revamped taskforce set to deliver a sustainable vision for a… Monday, 25 November 2024
Open call for evidence: RTFO statutory review and future of the scheme Monday, 25 November 2024
Notice: Train company prosecutions Friday, 22 November 2024
Form: Apply to close or divert a highway Friday, 22 November 2024
Statistical data set: Renewable fuel statistics: data tables Thursday, 21 November 2024
Consultation outcome: Motorcycles in bus lanes Thursday, 21 November 2024
Guidance: Renewable fuel statistics: pre-release access Thursday, 21 November 2024
Official Statistics: Renewable fuel statistics 2023: Final report? Thursday, 21 November 2024
Official Statistics: Renewable fuel statistics 2024: Second provisional rel… Thursday, 21 November 2024
Guidance: How to reimburse bus operators for concessionary travel Wednesday, 20 November 2024
Guidance: Calculate your concessionary bus travel reimbursement Wednesday, 20 November 2024
THINK! partners with Heineken to promote drink driving awareness campaign a… Wednesday, 20 November 2024
Official Statistics: Electric vehicle charging device grant scheme statisti… Wednesday, 20 November 2024
Guidance: Electric vehicle charging device statistics information Wednesday, 20 November 2024
THINK! partners with Heineken to promote drink driving awareness campaign a… Wednesday, 20 November 2024
Guidance: School Streets: how to set up and manage a scheme Tuesday, 19 November 2024
Corporate report: DfT privacy notices: trials, research, online forms, webi… Tuesday, 19 November 2024
Press release: Government guidelines to make school runs happier, healthier… Tuesday, 19 November 2024
Transparency data: Bus service improvement plans: local transport authority… Monday, 18 November 2024
Press release: £1 billion government funding boost for bus services across … Sunday, 17 November 2024
Press release: £1 billion government funding boost for bus services across … Sunday, 17 November 2024
Guidance: CCTV and recording devices for traffic offences: list of certific… Friday, 15 November 2024
Statement to Parliament: CAA publication of independent report into NATS te… Thursday, 14 November 2024
Statement to Parliament: Next steps for East West Rail Thursday, 14 November 2024
Statutory guidance: East West Rail safeguarding directions Thursday, 14 November 2024
Research: Socio-economic impacts of quantum technologies in transport Thursday, 14 November 2024
Quad bikes: the rules Thursday, 14 November 2024
Open consultation: East West Rail consultation 2024 Thursday, 14 November 2024
Press release: East West Rail to boost Oxford-Cambridge region by billions Thursday, 14 November 2024
Press release: East West Rail to boost Oxford-Cambridge region by billions Thursday, 14 November 2024
Decision: Kettering to Wigston South Junction land rights: Transport and Wo… Wednesday, 13 November 2024
Decision: Cambourne to Cambridge: Transport and Works Act order Wednesday, 13 November 2024
Official Statistics: Developing faster indicators of transport activity Wednesday, 13 November 2024
Statistical data set: Sea passenger statistics: data tables (SPAS) Wednesday, 13 November 2024
Official Statistics: Daily domestic transport use by mode Wednesday, 13 November 2024
Accredited official statistics: UK international sea passengers: September … Wednesday, 13 November 2024
Press release: Transport Secretary launches review of train company revenue… Wednesday, 13 November 2024
Statement to Parliament: Our progress in overhauling the railways Monday, 11 November 2024
Press release: Significant government investment set to transform transport… Thursday, 07 November 2024
Research: Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA) review Thursday, 07 November 2024
Press release: Better truckstops thanks to £43 million boost as minister vi… Thursday, 07 November 2024
Press release: Baroness Grey-Thompson to lead new expert group to 'break do… Thursday, 07 November 2024
Press release: DVLA review published to strengthen agency for the future Thursday, 07 November 2024
Press release: £1.2 million to boost rural transport in the UK Wednesday, 06 November 2024
Low-emission vehicles eligible for a plug-in grant Tuesday, 05 November 2024
Guidance: Security scanners (SSc) for aviation security Monday, 04 November 2024
Consultation outcome: Allowing emergency services drivers to use hand-held … Monday, 04 November 2024
Open consultation: Incorporating international rules into GB type approval … Monday, 04 November 2024
October 2024
Research: Freight analysis and modelling environment Thursday, 31 October 2024
Research: Economic impacts of transport investment Thursday, 31 October 2024