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Question follow-through · 25030

Road Works: Utilities

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if her Department will make an assessment of the potential merits of requiring utility companies to coordinate the digging up of roads and pavements.

answeredDepartment for Transport

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Answering body
Department for Transport
Tabled
20 Jan 2025
Target answer date
22 Jan 2025
Answer
22 Jan 2025 · 2 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 20 Jan 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if her Department will make an assessment of the potential merits of requiring utility companies to coordinate the digging up of roads and pavements.

  2. 22 Jan 2025

    Target answer date

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  3. 22 Jan 2025

    Answer published

    My Department issues statutory guidance in the form of the Co-ordination Code of Practice as we know that effective planning and coordination of works can reduce congestion and impacts of works on local communities. Highway authorities have a duty to co-o...

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