Question follow-through · 15872
Delivery Services: Robotics
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what powers local authorities have to restrict or prohibit the use of pavement delivery robots within their areas.
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- Answering body
- Department for Transport
- Tabled
- 3 Jul 2026
- Target answer date
- 7 Jul 2026
- Answer
- 7 Jul 2026 · 4 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
3 Jul 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what powers local authorities have to restrict or prohibit the use of pavement delivery robots within their areas.
7 Jul 2026
Target answer date
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7 Jul 2026
Answer published
Where pavement robots currently operate, they do so in partnership with the relevant local authority.The Government announced last week that it will facilitate new trials of pavement delivery robots in new places through powers in the Regulating for Growt...
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