Written Question·Department for Transport·UIN 34343

Road Works: Utilities

Tabled: 27 February 2025

Answered: 6 March 2025

Question

Lisa Smart

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of providing increased powers to local councils to help them ensure that utility companies adhere to agreed timescales for completing emergency works on cr

Answer

Lilian Greenwood

The Government continues to review how works are planned, managed and communicated and how this can be improved. The Government announced in December that we will be clamping down on disruptive works by doubling fixed penalty notices for utility companies...

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