Parking: Pedestrian Areas

(asked on 14th April 2026) - View Source

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether the Statutory Instrument required to enable civil enforcement against unnecessary pavement obstruction has been drafted; and when he plans to lay that instrument before Parliament.


Answered by
Lilian Greenwood Portrait
Lilian Greenwood
Government Whip, Lord Commissioner of HM Treasury
This question was answered on 22nd April 2026

The Statutory Instrument is being drafted and will be laid before Parliament by the end of the year.

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