Written Question·Department for Transport·UIN 79150

Parking: Large Goods Vehicles

Tabled: 10 October 2025
Answered: 20 October 2025

Question

Mrs Elsie Blundell

LabourHeywood and Middleton North

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if her Department will make an assessment of the adequacy of parking facilities for HGV drivers in the North West.

Answer

Simon Lightwood
The National Survey of Lorry Parking, which was published on 29 September 2022, is the Department for Transport’s primary evidence base on the availability of HGV parking facilities. The survey showed an average shortage across England of around 4,500 HGV...

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