Written Question·Department for Transport·UIN 106408

Courier Services: Blood

Tabled: 16 January 2026

Answered: 22 January 2026

Question

Lisa Smart

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether she has made an estimate of the (a) number of local authorities which have exempted blood bikes from the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984, (b) cost of those exemptions individually and (c) savings from

Answer

Lilian Greenwood

Local authorities cannot extend the speed exemption in section 87 of The Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984 to ‘Blood Bikes’ or any other class of vehicle. Like the exemptions to red traffic lights and keep left / right signs in The Traffic Signs, Regulatio...

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