Roads: Snow and Ice
Commons · Question 85761 · Tabled 28 Oct 2025 · Department for Transport · Official record
Answered 5 Nov 2025
Question
Asked by Jim Shannon
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what discussions she has had with local councils on ensuring that there are sufficient road grit boxes for road users to use in winter 2025-26.
Answer
Answered by Simon Lightwood, 5 Nov 2025
Responsibility for winter road maintenance, including grit boxes, is a devolved matter. As such this answer relates only to England. Section 41 of the Highways Act 1980 places a duty on highway authorities to ensure, so far as is reasonably practicable, t...