Question follow-through · 19234
Blue Badge Scheme
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if she will make it her policy that local authorities issuing Blue Badges within her Department's guideline timescale of 12 weeks will be able to recover the full costs of delivering that service.
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- Answering body
- Department for Transport
- Tabled
- 11 Dec 2024
- Target answer date
- 16 Dec 2024
- Answer
- 16 Dec 2024 · 5 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
11 Dec 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if she will make it her policy that local authorities issuing Blue Badges within her Department's guideline timescale of 12 weeks will be able to recover the full costs of delivering that service.
16 Dec 2024
Target answer date
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16 Dec 2024
Answer published
The Blue Badge scheme is administered, funded and operated at local level by individual local authorities. There are no timescales set for administering applications other than a suggested guideline that issuing authorities should aim to complete end to e...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
Later records
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