Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what plans her Department has to tackle unauthorised advertising adjacent to motorways in England.

The Department does not permit advertising within the boundary of the Strategic Road Network, and National Highways removes any unauthorised signage from its land.

For adverts on private land adjacent to motorways, enforcement is carried out by local planning authorities under the Town and Country Planning (Control of Advertisements) Regulations 2007. National Highways will continue to notify the relevant authority and raise concerns where an advert poses a road safety risk.