Mentions:
1: Fleur Anderson (Lab - Putney) These strategic assets should sit under a single authority with responsibility for maintenance, repairs - Speech Link
2: Andy Slaughter (Lab - Hammersmith and Chiswick) To put that into perspective, that is half the sum spent on repair and maintenance for all bridges over - Speech Link
3: Greg Smith (Con - Mid Buckinghamshire) and Fulham council—there is no getting around this point—holds the statutory duty to maintain the highway - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Simon Lightwood (LAB - Wakefield and Rothwell) This Labour Government are providing £7.3 billion for highways maintenance over four years, doubling - Speech Link
2: Clive Jones (LD - Wokingham) Between 2020 and 2022 when the Conservatives led the council, they cut the road maintenance budget by - Speech Link
3: Simon Lightwood (LAB - Wakefield and Rothwell) Capital funding for highways maintenance has not been cut in Wokingham. - Speech Link
4: Simon Lightwood (LAB - Wakefield and Rothwell) We are almost doubling the amount of money going to local highways maintenance to turn the tide. - Speech Link
5: Heidi Alexander (Lab - Swindon South) Lady will know that roadworks on local roads are the responsibility of each local highway authority. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: None Rule 64 of The Highway Code states that you must not cycle on a pavement. - Speech Link
2: Lord Berkeley (Lab - Life peer) She was talking about things that she does not remember in the Highway Code. - Speech Link
3: Lord Hendy of Richmond Hill (Lab - Life peer) Adapting the highway to future resilience needs is an established part of highways maintenance best practice - Speech Link
4: Baroness McIntosh of Pickering (Con - Life peer) I would like to clarify something on the Highway Code. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: None The Government continue to invest significantly in improving local highway infrastructure, and Devon - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Lilian Greenwood (Lab - Nottingham South) For the first time, councils have multi-year funding for local roads maintenance. - Speech Link
2: Lilian Greenwood (Lab - Nottingham South) The very wet start to 2026 has made repairs more difficult and maintenance windows shorter. - Speech Link
3: Lilian Greenwood (Lab - Nottingham South) this year—as part of the largest uplift to the highways maintenance block in England’s history. - Speech Link
4: Lilian Greenwood (Lab - Nottingham South) of its roads, its maintenance plans and how it is investing the uplift it has received. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay (Con - Life peer) generations—not to mention inward investment to towns, cities and rural communities—as well as for essential maintenance - Speech Link
2: Lord Jackson of Peterborough (Con - Life peer) quantum difference between people passing through a locale who are dressed to cycle on the public highway - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Lord Hendy of Richmond Hill (Lab - Life peer) adoption of new products and approaches, while leaving decisions on individual technologies to local highway - Speech Link
2: Lord Boateng (Lab - Life peer) All too often, cyclists show a complete disregard for the Highway Code and the safety of pedestrians. - Speech Link
3: Lord Hendy of Richmond Hill (Lab - Life peer) It is important that everybody using our roads behaves in accordance with the Highway Code and the law - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Keir Mather (Lab - Selby) five-year integrated business plan, backed by five years of funding for infrastructure operations, maintenance - Speech Link
2: None (10) A report on a study must be presented to the Secretary of State and relevant local highway authority - Speech Link
3: None driving more than one journey over the same rails;(e) introduce multi-disciplinary and flexible maintenance - Speech Link
4: Jerome Mayhew (Con - Broadland and Fakenham) on driving more than one journey over the same rails, and introduce multidisciplinary flexible maintenance - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: None This also allows for scrutiny for the maintenance of public confidence. - Speech Link
2: Lord Cromwell (XB - Excepted Hereditary) A more recent phenomenon is the use, from the highway, of drones to scope out machinery or products for - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: James Wild (Con - North West Norfolk) However, a few things are worth highlighting.Awareness of the highway code remains far too low, and people - Speech Link
2: James Wild (Con - North West Norfolk) context of the debate, and following contact from constituents, I have been refreshing myself on the highway - Speech Link
3: Pippa Heylings (LD - South Cambridgeshire) it mended within the week.Under Liberal Democrat leadership, the council’s investment in capital maintenance - Speech Link
4: Leigh Ingham (Lab - Stafford) local authorities to take a joined-up approach to road safety that includes both speed and road maintenance - Speech Link
5: Olly Glover (LD - Didcot and Wantage) in obeying rules and signals and respecting pedestrians, and drivers need to have good vehicle maintenance - Speech Link