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Delivery Services: Robots

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether she has considered excluding autonomous delivery robots from plans for micromobility regulation.

answeredDepartment for Transport

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Department for Transport
Tabled
29 Jun 2026
Target answer date
1 Jul 2026
Answer
1 Jul 2026 · 2 calendar days after tabling

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  1. 29 Jun 2026

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether she has considered excluding autonomous delivery robots from plans for micromobility regulation.

  2. 1 Jul 2026

    Target answer date

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  3. 1 Jul 2026

    Answer published

    The Government has committed to pursuing legislative reform for micromobility vehicles when parliamentary time allows by creating a ‘Low-speed Zero Emission Vehicle’ category. This could be used to regulate pavement robots in future. Any new regulations w...

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