Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 21 October 2021 to Question 58329 on Roads: Snow and Ice, if he will publish the full results of his Department’s salt survey of English local highway authorities.

As Government has no powers to intervene on local highway authority winter service planning and their treatment of roads. The salt survey primarily seeks to understand local authorities’ preparedness with regards to David Quarmby’s recommendations of local authorities having sufficient quantities of salt to carry out gritting operations four times a day for twelve days on their respective Key Route Networks.

Where relevant, the Department will share the conclusions of the survey with the sector to help support their preparations.