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Electronic Cigarettes and Smoking: Buses

Asked by Kevin HollinrakeConservativeDepartment for TransportTabled Answered 24 July 2025UIN 69057

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether the powers for councils to issue fines for vaping and smoking relating to buses will be subject to (a) non-statutory and (b) statutory guidance on the issue of the bye-law powers.

Answered by Simon Lightwood

The government will work with Local Transport Authorities and other stakeholders to determine how byelaws should be made and enforced, and what specific guidance is required.

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