Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of the regulation of (a) street names and (b) house numbering to allow (i) delivery drivers and (ii) emergency workers to find properties, and if he will make a statement.

The Department has made no such assessment. The design and location of street name signs and property numbering are matters for local authorities. The Department has published guidance for local authorities in Circular Roads 3/93 ‘Street Name Plates and the Numbering of Premises’.

Circular 3/93 is available at:

www.gov.uk/government/publications/roads-circulars