Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether he has made an assessment of the potential merits of allowing local residents to pay for parking restrictions in a road where the relevant local authority has agreed a need but the project is awaiting an allocation of funding.

No such assessment has been made. Local authorities have a network management duty to ensure parking provisions and restrictions are made as required. It is a matter for them to decide and fund what is needed.