Question follow-through · 129475
Motorways: Lighting
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps is her department taking to ensure National Highways includes the views of local residents in stakeholder consultations when deciding to remove lights over motorways.
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- Answering body
- Department for Transport
- Tabled
- 23 Apr 2026
- Target answer date
- 28 Apr 2026
- Answer
- 28 Apr 2026 · 5 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
23 Apr 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps is her department taking to ensure National Highways includes the views of local residents in stakeholder consultations when deciding to remove lights over motorways.
28 Apr 2026
Target answer date
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28 Apr 2026
Answer published
The Department expects National Highways to carry out appropriate consultation where changes to the strategic road network may impact local communities. Where a proposal to remove lighting would directly affect a local community, National Highways would s...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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