Transport

Wednesday 5th January 2022 Ministerial Corrections

Major Road Blockages: Climate Activists

The following is an extract from Transport questions on 16 December 2021.

[Marco Longhi]

7. What steps the Government are taking to help prevent climate activists from blocking major roads in England.

[Tom Hunt]

8. What steps the Government are taking to help prevent climate activists from blocking major roads in England.

[The Secretary of State for Transport (Grant Shapps)]

National Highways continues to pursue legal action against individuals who breached its injunctions. Thanks to those injunctions, which I asked National Highways to pursue, 11 people have been prosecuted and will be spending this Christmas at Her Majesty’s pleasure.

[Official Report, 16 December 2021, Vol. 705, c. 1129.]

Letter of correction from the Secretary of State for Transport:

An error has been identified in my response to my hon. Friends the Members for Dudley North (Marco Longhi) and for Ipswich (Tom Hunt).

The correct response should have been:

[The Secretary of State for Transport (Grant Shapps)]

National Highways continues to pursue legal action against individuals who breached its injunctions. Thanks to those injunctions, which I asked National Highways to pursue, 10 people have been prosecuted and will be spending this Christmas at Her Majesty’s pleasure.