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Delivery Services: Robots

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether her Department has approved the use of pavement delivery robots to operate in urban areas.

answeredDepartment for Transport

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Answering body
Department for Transport
Tabled
15 May 2026
Target answer date
19 May 2026
Answer
21 May 2026 · 6 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 15 May 2026

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether her Department has approved the use of pavement delivery robots to operate in urban areas.

  2. 19 May 2026

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 21 May 2026

    Answer published

    The Government does not have any involvement, and has not approved, any pavement delivery robot operations in the UK. The Government recognises that the current legal framework does not provide the certainty businesses need to invest, which is why we have...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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