Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to the oral contribution of the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Transport of 3 September 2025 on Pavement Parking, column 165WH, when she plans to publish the Government’s response to the consultation on Managing pavement parking which closed on 22 November 2020; and whether that response will include measures relating to (a) people with sight loss and (b) other disabled pedestrians.

The previous government failed to publish a response to its own 2020 consultation on pavement parking. This Government fully understands the serious problems that vehicles parked on the pavement, and other obstacles on the pavement, can cause for pedestrians, especially for people with mobility or sight impairments and disabled people with wheelchairs, prams or pushchairs, and is currently working through policy options and the appropriate means of delivering them. We will announce next steps and publish a response as soon as possible.