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Roads: Safety

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps her Department is taking to increase road safety for vulnerable road users.

answeredDepartment for Transport

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Answering body
Department for Transport
Tabled
19 Dec 2024
Target answer date
7 Jan 2025
Answer
10 Jan 2025 · 22 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 19 Dec 2024

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps her Department is taking to increase road safety for vulnerable road users.

  2. 7 Jan 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 10 Jan 2025

    Answer published

    The Government treats road safety with the utmost seriousness, and we are committed to reducing the numbers of those killed and injured on our roads. My department is developing our road safety strategy and will set out more details in due course.

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Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.

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