Question follow-through · 105426
Roads: Accidents
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment she has made of trends in the level of a) injuries and b) fatalities where road surface defects were identified as a contributory factor in the last decade.
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- Answering body
- Department for Transport
- Tabled
- 13 Jan 2026
- Target answer date
- 15 Jan 2026
- Answer
- 20 Jan 2026 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
13 Jan 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment she has made of trends in the level of a) injuries and b) fatalities where road surface defects were identified as a contributory factor in the last decade.
15 Jan 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
20 Jan 2026
Answer published
Statistics on reported road injuries and fatalities where a reporting police officer has assigned ‘Poor or defective road surface or deposits on road’ as a contributing road safety factor are published on gov.uk:https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/me...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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