Written Question·Department for Transport·UIN 85761
Roads: Snow and Ice
Tabled: 28 October 2025
Answered: 5 November 2025
Question
Jim Shannon
Democratic Unionist Party — Strangford
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what discussions she has had with local councils on ensuring that there are sufficient road grit boxes for road users to use in winter 2025-26.
Answer
Simon LightwoodResponsibility for winter road maintenance, including grit boxes, is a devolved matter. As such this answer relates only to England. Section 41 of the Highways Act 1980 places a duty on highway authorities to ensure, so far as is reasonably practicable, t...
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