Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what is his timetable for (a) responding to the consultation on the Private parking code of practice and (b) laying the code before Parliament.

The government is committed to delivering a new Code of Practice to raise standards across the Private Parking Sector and protect motorists in accordance with the Private Parking (Code of Practice) Act 2019.

The government will publish an official consultation response and lay the Code of Practice before Parliament as soon as possible.

As part of this work, my department continues to engage with the Competition Markets Authority (CMA) and the CMA is aware that the government is committed to delivering the Code of Practice as soon as possible.

The Department has not had any recent conversations with the British Standards Institution on these matters.