Question follow-through · 28024

Motor Vehicles: Lighting

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 16 March 2026 to Question 118642 on Motor Vehicles: Lighting, to provide an update on her department’s engagement with the College of Optometrists about dazzling headlamps.

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Answering body
Department for Transport
Tabled
8 Sept 2026
Target answer date
10 Sept 2026
Answer
10 Sept 2026 · 2 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 8 Sept 2026

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 16 March 2026 to Question 118642 on Motor Vehicles: Lighting, to provide an update on her department’s engagement with the College of Optometrists about dazzling headlamps.

  2. 10 Sept 2026

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 10 Sept 2026

    Answer published

    The Department has completed engagement with the College of Optometrists on headlamp dazzle, and its input helped to better understand some of the issues and inform the second phase of the vehicle lighting glare research. The College raised concerns about...

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