Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask Her Majesty's Government what plans, if any, they have to reduce the number of permitted driver hours under the Road Transport (Working Time) Regulations 2005 after Brexit.

The drivers’ hours and working time rules for mobile workers are currently harmonised at EU level and implemented in the UK through domestic legislation. The EU (Withdrawal) Act 2018 retains directly-applicable EU laws, including relating to these rules. The Government is preparing secondary legislation under this Act to ensure that the statute book continues to function after 29 March 2019, for example by correcting procedural deficiencies in retained EU law. There are no plans to amend the substance of these rules, which the Government recognises are an important road safety measure.