Question follow-through · 21178
Freight: Infrastructure
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if she will make an asssessment of the potential merits of identifying a National Freight Network.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Transport
- Tabled
- 18 Dec 2024
- Target answer date
- 6 Jan 2025
- Answer
- 9 Jan 2025 · 22 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
18 Dec 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if she will make an asssessment of the potential merits of identifying a National Freight Network.
6 Jan 2025
Target answer date
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9 Jan 2025
Answer published
The UK has a complex national freight system handling millions of transactions every day. The merits of increasing our understanding of this system to inform policy making, regulation and investment interventions are well understood, and this Government i...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
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Large Goods Vehicles: Concrete
26 Jun 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment his Department has made of the potential impact of reducing permitted weights for Volumetric Concrete Mobile Plants from 2028 on the manufacturing sector.