Written Question·Department for Transport·UIN 75380

Large Goods Vehicles: Parking

Tabled: 5 September 2025
Answered: 15 September 2025

Question

Kirsteen Sullivan

Labour (Co-op)Bathgate and Linlithgow

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment her Department has made of the availability of (a) safe, (b) secure and (c) good quality truck parking; and what plans her Department has to reopen the HGV parking and driver welfare grant schem

Answer

Simon Lightwood
The Department for Transport published the National Survey of Lorry Parking on 29th September 2022 which highlighted what improvements to lorry parking facilities were most needed. The survey showed an average shortage of around 4,500 HGV parking spaces f...

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