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HGV Parking and Driver Welfare Grant Scheme

Asked by Mr Richard HoldenConservativeDepartment for TransportTabled Answered 13 February 2026UIN 110890

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 27 October 2025 to Question 82998, whether the Department plans to extend the HGV Parking and Driver Welfare Grant Scheme beyond March 2026; and what assessment has been made of the impact of project withdrawals, scope reductions and planning refusals on the delivery of additional HGV parking capacity.

Answered by Keir Mather

There are no plans for further windows of the HGV Parking and Driver Welfare Matched Funding Scheme (MFGS).

To date 16 projects have been withdrawn by the operators. It is estimated that this is a reduction of up to 177 proposed additional HGV parking spaces.

There are no significant impacts on the number of parking spaces where projects have undergone scope reduction.

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