Member

Every night thousands of lorry drivers still park up in lay-bys, away from fixed ablution facilities. As a result, in the morning they have to urinate in a plastic milk bottle or go into the bushes. Perhaps that is a more important reason why we cannot retain drivers in the industry. Can the Minister name any other industry where key employees are treated so disdainfully? Might this situation explain why there are so few lady lorry drivers in the industry? Will the Minister agree to write to me and give me his best estimate of how many HGV drivers are sleeping in their cabs overnight, away from fixed facilities? If he cannot, will he task Highways England with gathering that data, if necessary, by conducting a census?