Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, if he will consult representatives of (a) Welcome Break and (b) other motorway service operators on designating parking contraventions by HGVs at motorway service areas a specific use-class contravention.

My Department has recently consulted on private parking contraventions as part of the ‘Private Parking Charges, Discount Rates, Debt Collection Fees and Appeals Charter: Further Technical Consultation’. We will carefully consider all views submitted in response, including those of Welcome Break and other motorway service operators, before finalising the list of contraventions proposed in the consultation.

The consultation closed on 27 August and we will publish the response, together with the new parking Code of Practice, in due course.