To ask the Secretary of State for Transport if he will review his policy of disregarding parked cars in the vicinity as a criterion for deciding priority for school crossing patrols.

My Department has not issued advice on criteria for deciding priority for school crossing patrols. This is a matter for local authorities other than in the Metropolitan police district of London where the responsibility falls to the Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis. I understand that local authority road safety officers have developed guidance on the establishment of school crossing patrol sites through the national school crossing patrol working party and that this guidance is used widely by local authorities.