Question to the Department for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade:

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade, whether pavement delivery robots are intended to be among the first uses of the sandboxing powers in the Regulating for Growth Bill; and what parliamentary scrutiny will apply to individual sandboxes established under those powers.

As set out in the Government’s Regulation Action Plan Progress Report 2026, pavement delivery robots are among the early use cases being considered for the regulatory sandboxing powers proposed in the forthcoming Regulating for Growth Bill.

As the Government has previously stated, any trials of pavement delivery robots must protect the safety of pedestrians and vulnerable road users. Robust safeguards and parliamentary scrutiny are core components of the sandboxing framework, of which further details will be set out when the Bill is introduced and debated by Parliament.