Question follow-through · 13597
Road Works: Utilities
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what consideration his department has given to reducing the 6-month grace period that utility companies have to undertake full repairs to paving in town centres.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Transport
- Tabled
- 26 Jun 2026
- Target answer date
- 30 Jun 2026
- Answer
- 1 Jul 2026 · 5 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
26 Jun 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what consideration his department has given to reducing the 6-month grace period that utility companies have to undertake full repairs to paving in town centres.
30 Jun 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
1 Jul 2026
Answer published
Statutory guidance already makes clear that permanent reinstatements should be completed by utility companies as soon as reasonably practicable and that, where an interim reinstatement is used, it should normally be made permanent within six months.The De...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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