Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, when she plans to make regulations under the English Devolution and Community Empowerment Act 2026 enabling local transport authorities in England to prohibit parking on footways and verges; and when local authorities will be able to begin enforcing those prohibitions.

The Department for Transport plans to introduce secondary legislation as soon as possible to enable local transport authorities to prohibit pavement parking across their areas, subject to appropriate exemptions.

Once the secondary legislation is in force, local transport authorities adopting these powers will be able to give effect to a pavement parking prohibition by means of an administrative order. Enforcement could commence once such an order comes into force, with the timing of this being a matter for the individual authority.