Dr William McCrea – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Work and Pensions

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Dr William McCrea on 2014-03-26.

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps the Health and Safety Executive has taken to recommend or mandate the use of automated traffic management technology to lift and lay cones on the motorway network in the last 10 years for which information is available.

Mike Penning

The Health and Safety Executive has not taken any action to mandate or recommend the use of automated traffic management equipment to lift and lay cones.

The highway maintenance industry has trialled cone laying machines and the decision to use such machines rests with them on a commercial operational basis