Written Question·Home Office·UIN 64308

Road Works: Staff

Tabled: 1 July 2025
Answered: 24 July 2025

Question

Alex Mayer

LabourDunstable and Leighton Buzzard

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make an assessment of the effectiveness of the system of recording abuse against roadworkers.

Answer

Dame Diana Johnson
Assaults against a person are already an offence (Common Assault) under the Criminal Justice Act 1988, and are covered under other legislation such as the Offences against the Person Act 1861, which also covers more serious violence, including actual bodi...

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