Pavement Parking (Protection of Vulnerable Pedestrians) Bill

Debate between Simon Hoare and Kevin Foster

Friday 4th December 2015 Commons Chamber

[Simon Hoare]

Heaven rejoices when a sinner repenteth. I am certain that my hon. Friend’s confession, in perhaps the most public place to make a confession, will have the angels tuning their harps even as we speak.

[Kevin Foster (Torbay) (Con)]

Will my hon. Friend give way?

[Simon Hoare]

It is not another confession, is it?

[Kevin Foster]

No, thankfully not. Does my hon. Friend agree that the intervention from our hon. and gallant Friend the Member for Beckenham (Bob Stewart) raises an important point about the confusion in the current legislation? In my constituency and that of my hon. Friend, there is one set of parking legislation, which is hard to enforce, even where communities have chosen to ban it, while in the constituency of my hon. Friend the Member for Kingston and Surbiton (James Berry), there applies the sort of legislation we are trying to introduce here. Would it not be fairer to motorists and communities to have consistency across England?