Question follow-through · 11433

Motor Vehicles: Lighting and Sirens

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of bringing forward legislative proposals to allow independent lifeboat services to use (a) blue lights and (b) sirens on public highways.

answeredDepartment for Transport

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Answering body: Department for Transport
Tabled: 28 Oct 2024
Target answer date: 30 Oct 2024
Answer: 4 Nov 2024 · 7 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

28 Oct 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of bringing forward legislative proposals to allow independent lifeboat services to use (a) blue lights and (b) sirens on public highways.
30 Oct 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
4 Nov 2024
Answer published
Ministers are giving consideration to this matter. An update will be provided in due course.

Open official record

Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.

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