Asked by: Nick Thomas-Symonds (Labour - Torfaen)
Question to the Wales Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, whether the power to legislate to make parking on the pavement an offence in Wales is a reserved or devolved matter.
Answered by Alun Cairns
Road traffic offences are not devolved under the current conferred model of Welsh devolution, and will be reserved under the new reserved powers model which comes into effect on 1 April 2018. This means that whilst the National Assembly for Wales cannot legislate to make parking on the pavement a traffic offence it could legislate to make it a traffic contravention subject to civil enforcement.