Question follow-through · 51485

Pedestrian Areas: Safety

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the effectiveness of existing measures to prevent vehicles from entering areas with high pedestrian footfall.

answeredHome Office

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Answering body
Home Office
Tabled
12 May 2025
Target answer date
14 May 2025
Answer
20 May 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 12 May 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the effectiveness of existing measures to prevent vehicles from entering areas with high pedestrian footfall.

  2. 14 May 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 20 May 2025

    Answer published

    Homeland Security Group (HSG) works closely with the National Protective Security Authority (NPSA), who provide publicly available technical and practical advice relating to Hostile Vehicle Mitigation (HVM). This includes the 'NPSA Public Realm Design Gui...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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