Question follow-through · 97686
Floods: Road Traffic Control
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of the use of road closures to prevent vehicles disturbing standing water that has collected after heavy rainfall on properties at r
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- Answering body
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Tabled
- 5 Dec 2025
- Target answer date
- 9 Dec 2025
- Answer
- 11 Dec 2025 · 6 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
5 Dec 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of the use of road closures to prevent vehicles disturbing standing water that has collected after heavy rainfall on properties at r
9 Dec 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
11 Dec 2025
Answer published
The organisational responsibilities and operational processes for local road closures due to flooding are generally held by the Highways Department of the relevant local authority and the Emergency Services. Local private roads are the responsibility of t...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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