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Parking: Pedestrian Areas

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether the English Devolution Bill will include powers for local councils to tackle pavement parking.

answeredDepartment for Transport

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Answering body
Department for Transport
Tabled
7 Jul 2025
Target answer date
9 Jul 2025
Answer
15 Jul 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling

Elapsed calendar days describe the record timeline, not whether Parliament considers an answer on time.

Recorded timeline

  1. 7 Jul 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether the English Devolution Bill will include powers for local councils to tackle pavement parking.

  2. 9 Jul 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 15 Jul 2025

    Answer published

    The Department held a consultation in 2020 and is working through the policy options to tackle pavement parking and the appropriate means of delivering them. As soon as the Government is satisfied that an optimal solution to this complex issue has been i...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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