Question follow-through · 3670
Unadopted Roads
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many times has a Section 38 highway bond proved insufficient to cover the costs of bringing an unadopted road up to an adoptable standard following the insolvency of the developer in each of the last five y
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- Answering body
- Department for Transport
- Tabled
- 20 May 2026
- Target answer date
- 1 Jun 2026
- Answer
- 1 Jun 2026 · 12 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
20 May 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many times has a Section 38 highway bond proved insufficient to cover the costs of bringing an unadopted road up to an adoptable standard following the insolvency of the developer in each of the last five y
1 Jun 2026
Target answer date
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1 Jun 2026
Answer published
The Department for Transport does not hold centrally collected data on the number of occasions where a Section 38 highway bond has proved insufficient to cover the costs of bringing an unadopted road up to an adoptable standard following the insolvency of...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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