Department of Transport
About Department of Transport
The Department for Transport (DfT) is a ministerial department of the Government of the United Kingdom. It is wholly responsible for overseeing the transport network in England, and for limited transport matters that are not devolved to the governments of Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales. The department develops national transport policy, coordinates infrastructure investment, and regulates transport services. It is headed by the Secretary of State for Transport, who is supported by a ministerial team and the Permanent Secretary as the department’s most senior civil servant.
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He was employed by the Department of Transport to ride up and down the escalator and show people that it was safe. The idea was, even a one-legged man can get up and down this safely — you're probably going to be fine, guys.
from 8: No Such Thing As A Swear Word On The Moon, 2014-04-25 at 00:23:08 · read transcript
Other times Department of Transport came up
No. But I've looked online and it's definitely often said that this is true. Usually it's the lollipop people who say it. Right. I haven't found any sort of official source, like the Department of Transport or the highway code or anything like that that says that this is true. It's hard to see how it would be useful. I frequently try when I'm out and about to remember a license plate that passes by.
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Coordinates: 51.5037, -0.1232