Question follow-through · 64308

Road Works: Staff

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make an assessment of the effectiveness of the system of recording abuse against roadworkers.

answeredHome Office

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Answering body
Home Office
Tabled
1 Jul 2025
Target answer date
3 Jul 2025
Answer
24 Jul 2025 · 23 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 1 Jul 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make an assessment of the effectiveness of the system of recording abuse against roadworkers.

  2. 3 Jul 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 24 Jul 2025

    Answer published

    Assaults against a person are already an offence (Common Assault) under the Criminal Justice Act 1988, and are covered under other legislation such as the Offences against the Person Act 1861, which also covers more serious violence, including actual bodi...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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