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Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Thu 26 Mar 2026
Department for Transport

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


Lords Chamber
English Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill
Report stage - Thu 26 Mar 2026
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

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


Petitions
Coastal erosion in Start Bay - Mon 23 Mar 2026
No Department present

Mentions:
1: None The Government continue to invest significantly in improving local highway infrastructure, and Devon - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Rural Roads - Tue 17 Mar 2026
HM Treasury

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


Lords Chamber
Crime and Policing Bill
Report stage part one - Wed 11 Mar 2026
Home Office

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


Lords Chamber
Cyclists: Safety - Wed 25 Feb 2026
Department for Transport

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


Public Bill Committees
Railways Bill (Thirteenth sitting)
Committee stage: 13th sitting - Tue 10 Feb 2026
Department for Transport

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


Lords Chamber
Crime and Policing Bill
Committee stage - Thu 05 Feb 2026
Home Office

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


Commons Chamber
Road Safety - Thu 05 Feb 2026
HM Treasury

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


Westminster Hall
Transport in the South-East - Tue 03 Feb 2026
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Sojan Joseph (Lab - Ashford) It is clear from the road maintenance ratings that despite record funding from the Labour Government, - Speech Link
2: Alison Bennett (LD - Mid Sussex) Burgess Hill and the surrounding villages are seeing significant new housing, yet road maintenance has - Speech Link
3: Will Forster (LD - Woking) I am very concerned that highway spending from central Government does not take fully into account how - Speech Link
4: Will Forster (LD - Woking) It is far too slow to tackle simple things such as that, to invest in our highway network, which is so - Speech Link
5: Joe Robertson (Con - Isle of Wight East) The one-off cost to clear the national road maintenance backlog is estimated to be £16.8 billion, and - Speech Link