Question follow-through · 904124
Traffic Commissioners: Powers
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether her Department has made an assessment of the adequacy of the powers of traffic commissioners.
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- Answering body
- Department for Transport
- Tabled
- 8 May 2025
- Target answer date
- 15 May 2025
- Answer
- 15 May 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
8 May 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether her Department has made an assessment of the adequacy of the powers of traffic commissioners.
15 May 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
15 May 2025
Answer published
Traffic Commissioners perform important and independent regulatory, compliance and tribunal roles for the road freight and public transport sectors. A functional review conducted by the Ministry of Justice, published in May 2023, found the function genera...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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