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date	13/11/2018
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Road Works
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what (a) incentives and (b) sanctions are available to Highways England to promote compliance with its instructions on roadworks undertaken by utility companies.
tabling member constituency	Barrow and Furness
tabling member printed	John Woodcock
uin	190841
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/11/2018 answer text <p>The New Roads and Street Works Act 1991 enables Highways England to apply charges where works are unreasonably prolonged (i.e. take longer in duration than agreed) and to prosecute utility companies for offences (including failure to comply with directions given).</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 19/11/2018 10:47:34 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	3917 label Biography information for Lord Walney

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registered interest
date	22/05/2018
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Road Works
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps the Government is taking to support local authorities to hold to account utility companies that fail to reinstate the original road or pavement surface after the completion of their work.
tabling member constituency	Cheltenham
tabling member printed	Alex Chalk
uin	146929
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/05/2018 answer text <p>Local Highway Authorities in England already have powers under the 1991 New Roads and Street Works Act to require utility companies to reinstate the highway to the prescribed standard set out in the Specification for Reinstating Openings in the Highway. The same Act also provides Authorities with powers to inspect utility works to ensure standards are met. The 2004 Traffic Management Act introduced the ability for authorities to operate a street works permit scheme which ensures proactive management of how works are undertaken. To date some 65% of authorities have introduced such a scheme.</p><p> </p><p>Currently the Department is looking at a range of measures with the sector as a whole to continue to improve the quality of reinstatements of the highway improves. This is in addition to the wider point recently made by my Rt Hon Friend the Secretary of State that utility companies should look first at laying utilities under pavements or verges rather than under the road itself.</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 25/05/2018 11:10:37 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	4481 label Biography information for Alex Chalk

793173

registered interest
date	21/11/2017
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Road Works
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how much has accrued to the public purse from utility companies who have been late in completing roadworks in each local government area in the last 12 months for which data is available; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	East Yorkshire
tabling member printed	Sir Greg Knight
uin	114958
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/11/2017 answer text <p>Local highway authorities can, using section 74 of the New Roads and Street Works Act 1991 and regulations introduced in 2012, charge utilities for works that overrun. For example the maximum charge on the most significant parts of the road network is set at £5,000 for each of the first 3 days and then £10,000 for each subsequent day. The Department for Transport does not collect data on the amount collected by each local authority.</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 29/11/2017 10:09:02 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	1200 label Biography information for Sir Greg Knight