Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 17 April 2023 to Question 177959 on Parking: Pedestrian Areas, when he plans to publish his Department's response to its consultation on Managing Pavement Parking.

Pavement parking is a complex issue. We want to take the right step for communities and ensure that local authorities have appropriate and effective tools at their disposal. We are working through the options and the possible legislative opportunities for delivering them and as soon as those matters are certain we will publish our formal response at:

www.gov.uk/government/consultations/managing-pavement-parking.