Road Safety Plans
House of Commons · Commons Chamber · 1 Sep 2026 · 2 speeches · Official Report
Motion for leave to bring in a Bill (Standing Order No. 23 )
I beg to move, That leave be given to bring in a Bill to require local authorities in England to prepare and publish a road safety plan in respect of each school in their area; and for connected purposes. It is good to be back. The reasons behind my bringing the Road Safety Plans Bill to the House are the events of December 2025 in Madeley Heath in the northern part of my constituency. A local dad was walking his daughter to Meadows primary school not far from their home and, on this fateful day, was struck down by a reckless and speeding driver. That is what this Bill is about. We are here to demand action and to ensure that those responsible-in our case, Staffordshire county council-get on with actually doing something rather than more warm, weasel words, on occasion, about understanding the problems. Newcastle-under-Lyme is home to many brilliant schools, from Meadows primary school to St Wulstan’s in Wolstanton to Hassell primary school-which I was outside yesterday with Labour’s candidate in the town by-election scheduled for 8 October, Andrew Fox-Hewitt, who went to that school back in the day-up to Churchfields in Chesterton, St Mary’s on Silverdale Road and, of course, May Bank infants school. They are all excellent schools, all returning this week, and all would be safer if the provisions of my Bill became law. This is important, because no child, no parent, no carer-nobody-in Newcastle-under-Lyme or anywhere else in England should be at risk of injury, serious...