In 2019, with Lilian as Chair, the Transport Committee published their report criticising the Department for Transport for failing to take action on pavement parking.

Within the Report, they called for a complete ban on pavement parking, as well as the following recommendations for how the issue can be tackled before any law is passed. The Committee urged the Conservative Government to:

• commit to tackling pavement parking as part of its Loneliness Strategy;
• legislate for a nationwide ban on pavement parking across England, outside London;
• fund and deploy a national awareness campaign to highlight the negative consequences of pavement parking;
• bring forward proposals to reform the TRO process—to make it cheaper and easier for local authorities to use;
• abolish the requirement to advertise TROs in a local newspaper;
• publicise to the general public who enforces different types of parking offences;
• consult on a new offence of obstructive pavement parking.

Since then, no action has been taken. Today at Transport Questions, Lilian again called for a ban.

Lilian Greenwood MP: The Government have been promising action on pavement parking for a decade, but despite a consultation in 2020, we are still no further forward. Will the Minister finally listen to disabled people, parents, children and local councils who overwhelmingly support a ban, and act to curb this dangerous problem?