Question follow-through · 85761

Roads: Snow and Ice

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what discussions she has had with local councils on ensuring that there are sufficient road grit boxes for road users to use in winter 2025-26.

answeredDepartment for Transport

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Department for Transport
Tabled
28 Oct 2025
Target answer date
30 Oct 2025
Answer
5 Nov 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 28 Oct 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what discussions she has had with local councils on ensuring that there are sufficient road grit boxes for road users to use in winter 2025-26.

  2. 30 Oct 2025

    Target answer date

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  3. 5 Nov 2025

    Answer published

    Responsibility for winter road maintenance, including grit boxes, is a devolved matter. As such this answer relates only to England. Section 41 of the Highways Act 1980 places a duty on highway authorities to ensure, so far as is reasonably practicable, t...

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