Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will make an assessment of the potential means of encouraging local authorities to use part-solar-powered street lighting.

The management and maintenance of street lighting on the local road network in England is the responsibility of each local highway authority. Highway authorities have a duty under Section 41 of the Highways Act 1980 to maintain the public highways in their charge, and this duty includes street lighting. Some authorities have introduced energy efficient LED street lighting, but decisions on which technologies to adopt, including the use of LED or part-solar powered street lighting, are matters for the relevant local highway authority.