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registered interest false more like this
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Department for Transport more like this
answering dept id 27 more like this
answering dept short name Transport more like this
answering dept sort name Transport more like this
hansard heading Pedestrians: Mobile Phones more like this
house id 2 more like this
legislature
25277
pref label House of Lords more like this
question text To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether they intend to criminalise the obstruction of traffic by pedestrians using a mobile device. more like this
tabling member printed
Lord Blencathra more like this
uin HL4447 more like this
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is ministerial correction false more like this
date of answer less than 2015-02-10more like thismore than 2015-02-10
answer text <p>Section 137 of the Highways Act 1980 (as amended by sections 38 and 46 of the Criminal Justice Act 1982 and the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984, Schedule 7) provides an offence of wilful obstruction of the highway.<br><br>Section 137(1) states an offence is committed if a person, without lawful authority or excuse, in any way wilfully obstructs the free passage along a highway.</p> more like this
answering member printed Baroness Kramer more like this
question first answered
less than 2015-02-10T12:02:52.127Zmore like thismore than 2015-02-10T12:02:52.127Z
answering member
1557
label Biography information for Baroness Kramer more like this
tabling member
497
label Biography information for Lord Blencathra more like this