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1551527

	registered interest
	date	14/12/2022
	answering body	Department for Transport
	answering dept id	27
	answering dept short name	Transport
	answering dept sort name	Transport
	hansard heading	Motorways: Safety
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what further steps his Department are taking to improve safety on all lane running smart motorways.
	tabling member constituency	Southport
	tabling member printed	Damien Moore
	uin	110838
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/12/2022 answer text <p>Overall, in terms of serious or fatal casualties, smart motorways are the safest roads on the Strategic Road Network. We want all drivers to feel safe and we have paused the rollout of smart motorways not already in construction while we collect more data. During the pause, we have committed £900m for safety improvements across the network including building more emergency areas.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p> answering member constituency North West Durham answering member printed Mr Richard Holden question first answered 19/12/2022 14:34:00 answering member 4813 label Biography information for Mr Richard Holden
	tabling member	4669 label Biography information for Damien Moore

1547353

	registered interest
	date	01/12/2022
	answering body	Department for Transport
	answering dept id	27
	answering dept short name	Transport
	answering dept sort name	Transport
	hansard heading	Motorways: Safety
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 30 November to Question 93553 on Motorways: Safety, of the 10% of vehicles stopped in live lanes on all-lane running motorways not detected within 60 seconds, in how many instances detection took more than (a) five and (b) ten minutes in 2022.
	tabling member constituency	Rotherham
	tabling member printed	Sarah Champion
	uin	100986
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/12/2022 answer text <p>National Highways has established processes for monitoring the performance of stopped vehicle detection where it is in place on all lane running sections of smart motorway, collecting samples of operational data covering emergency areas and live lanes. National Highways currently has 17 days’ worth of operational sample data covering the period 2021 and 2022.</p><p> </p><p>From this data, an average of around 98.3% of vehicles stopped in live lanes or emergency areas were detected within 5 minutes, and around 99.7% within 10 minutes. There were single figures of cars that took over 10 minutes to detect.</p><p> </p><p>Please note that as the sample of the data evolves, there may be further changes to the figures presented. As the data is based on a sample dataset, any extrapolation or conclusions should be made with caution.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency North West Durham answering member printed Mr Richard Holden question first answered 07/12/2022 17:22:01 answering member 4813 label Biography information for Mr Richard Holden
	tabling member	4267 label Biography information for Sarah Champion

1546047

	registered interest
	date	28/11/2022
	answering body	Department for Transport
	answering dept id	27
	answering dept short name	Transport
	answering dept sort name	Transport
	hansard heading	Motorways: Safety
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, on what proportion of all lane running smart motorways is computer analysis of CCTV images for stopped vehicle detection operational.
	tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Brightside and Hillsborough
	tabling member printed	Gill Furniss
	uin	97752
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/12/2022 answer text <p>National Highways does not have computer analysis of CCTV images for stopped vehicle detection operational on any existing All Lane Running smart motorways. National Highways preferred approach is radar based stopped vehicle detection (SVD) technology, which is in place on all existing All Lane Running motorways. SVD is capable of detecting stopped vehicles in live lanes, automatically alerting drivers with ‘report of obstruction’ signs, and sending alerts to control rooms.</p><p>National Highways are currently reviewing the status of the 2020 technical report.</p> answering member constituency North West Durham answering member printed Mr Richard Holden grouped question UIN 97751 question first answered 01/12/2022 09:10:38 answering member 4813 label Biography information for Mr Richard Holden
	tabling member	4571 label Biography information for Gill Furniss

1544390

	registered interest
	date	22/11/2022
	answering body	Department for Transport
	answering dept id	27
	answering dept short name	Transport
	answering dept sort name	Transport
	hansard heading	Motorways: Safety
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many and what proportion of incidents in which a vehicle became stranded in a live lane of an all-lane running motorway did detection take more than (a) five and (b) ten minutes in 2022.
	tabling member constituency	Rotherham
	tabling member printed	Sarah Champion
	uin	93553
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/11/2022 answer text <p>National Highways identifies stopped vehicles through various sources including being notified by the police, public, stopped vehicle detection (SVD) technology where in place, recovery industry and its traffic officers.</p><p>To monitor the performance of SVD National Highways sample operational data.</p><p>Based on the latest operational data, National Highways detects around two thirds of identified stopped vehicles within 20 seconds and this rises to almost 90% within 60 seconds.</p><p>This data also shows almost all stopped vehicles identified by SVD technology were detected within five minutes, excluding very few instances which were deemed to be false alerts.</p> answering member constituency North West Durham answering member printed Mr Richard Holden question first answered 30/11/2022 08:58:09 answering member 4813 label Biography information for Mr Richard Holden
	tabling member	4267 label Biography information for Sarah Champion

1542946

	registered interest
	date	16/11/2022
	answering body	Department for Transport
	answering dept id	27
	answering dept short name	Transport
	answering dept sort name	Transport
	hansard heading	Motorways: Safety
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how long it takes on average to (a) detect and (b) respond to a vehicle stranded in a live lane on all lane running motorways in England.
	tabling member constituency	Rotherham
	tabling member printed	Sarah Champion
	uin	88889
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/11/2022 answer text <p>National Highways detects around two thirds of stopped vehicles within 20 seconds and almost 90% within 60 seconds.</p><p>National Highways has also made considerable progress in attending incidents on all lane running motorways, especially where emergency areas are more than a mile apart. In September 2022 the average attendance time for these sections was 9 minutes 49 seconds. National Highways will continue to work hard to keep average attendance times to 10 minutes on these sections.</p> answering member constituency North West Durham answering member printed Mr Richard Holden question first answered 21/11/2022 12:25:01 answering member 4813 label Biography information for Mr Richard Holden
	tabling member	4267 label Biography information for Sarah Champion

1539387

	registered interest
	date	04/11/2022
	answering body	Department for Transport
	answering dept id	27
	answering dept short name	Transport
	answering dept sort name	Transport
	hansard heading	Motorways: Safety
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if it remains his Department's policy not to reinstate hard shoulders on smart motorways
	tabling member constituency	Tamworth
	tabling member printed	Christopher Pincher
	uin	79293
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/11/2022 answer text <p>We have paused the rollout of new smart motorways to collect more safety and economic data to make informed decisions on next steps. We will consider alternative options for enhancing capacity on the Strategic Road Network. The Government has acted to improve smart motorway safety, ordering a stocktake in 2020 and investing £900 million to equip them with stopped vehicle detection, enforcement cameras, additional signs and emergency areas.</p> answering member constituency North West Durham answering member printed Mr Richard Holden question first answered 09/11/2022 12:05:55 answering member 4813 label Biography information for Mr Richard Holden
	tabling member	4075 label Biography information for Christopher Pincher

1537508

	registered interest
	date	31/10/2022
	answering body	Department for Transport
	answering dept id	27
	answering dept short name	Transport
	answering dept sort name	Transport
	hansard heading	Motorways: Safety
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how long in total hours (a) Stopped Vehicle Detection systems and (b) overhead warning gantries have been offline as a result of technical failures across the smart motorway network in the last 12 months.
	tabling member constituency	Rotherham
	tabling member printed	Sarah Champion
	uin	74695
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/11/2022 answer text <p>Smart motorways have a whole system of inter-related safety features, not present on conventional motorways, which means there is no over-reliance on one single feature. When outages do occur, National Highways has well-rehearsed procedures to deal with issues when they arise and additional measures can be taken to limit any impact on drivers, including extra traffic officer patrols and virtual CCTV patrols.</p><p>For the month of September 2022, the national availability of Stopped Vehicle Detection technology was recorded at over 98%, and for warning signs at over 90%. National Highways has already taken action to continue to improve warning signs availability to meet the 95% availability target they have.</p> answering member constituency North West Durham answering member printed Mr Richard Holden grouped question UIN 74696 question first answered 07/11/2022 17:48:34 answering member 4813 label Biography information for Mr Richard Holden
	tabling member	4267 label Biography information for Sarah Champion

1503424

	registered interest
	date	02/09/2022
	answering body	Department for Transport
	answering dept id	27
	answering dept short name	Transport
	answering dept sort name	Transport
	hansard heading	Motorways: Safety
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps his Department is taking to ensure the safe and effective management of smart motorways.
	tabling member constituency	Southport
	tabling member printed	Damien Moore
	uin	45109
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/09/2022 answer text <p>The Government has acted to improve smart motorway safety, ordering a stocktake in 2020 and investing £900 million to equip them with stopped vehicle detection, enforcement cameras, additional signs and emergency areas, while pausing the rollout of new smart motorways to collect more data.</p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster grouped question UIN 45133 question first answered 14/09/2022 10:37:39 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
	tabling member	4669 label Biography information for Damien Moore

1434068

	registered interest
	date	22/02/2022
	answering body	Department for Transport
	answering dept id	27
	answering dept short name	Transport
	answering dept sort name	Transport
	hansard heading	Motorways: Safety
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what plans his Department has to reinstate the hard shoulder on SMART motorways while an investigation into the accidents that have occurred on SMART motorways is carried out.
	tabling member constituency	Putney
	tabling member printed	Fleur Anderson
	uin	127563
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/03/2022 answer text <p>On 2 November 2021, the Transport Select Committee published its report, <em>The Rollout and Safety of Smart Motorways</em>, which agreed that the Government was right to focus on upgrading the safety of All Lane Running smart motorways, rather than reinstating the hard shoulder, which the Committee recognised could cause more deaths or serious injuries on our roads.</p><p> </p><p>Having carefully considered the Committee’s report, the Department will be taking forward all its recommendations. This includes the recommendation to pause the roll out of future All Lane Running schemes until a full five years’ worth of safety data is available. During the pause, we will continue to make sure all existing All Lane Running smart motorways are made as safe as they can possibly be.</p><p> </p><p>We will also take forward the recommendations to pause the conversion of Dynamic Hard Shoulder smart motorways to All Lane Running until the next Road Investment Strategy. We will additionally retrofit more Emergency Areas across existing All Lane Running schemes; conduct an independent evaluation of the effectiveness of stopped vehicle detection technology; explore the introduction of the emergency corridor manoeuvre into the Highway Code; and, investigate the benefits of health and safety assessments being undertaken by the Office of Rail and Road.</p><p> </p><p>Taken together, these measures will help ensure that our roads continue to be among the safest in the world, helping drivers not just to be safe, but crucially, to feel safe and confident when driving.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Copeland answering member printed Trudy Harrison question first answered 01/03/2022 15:10:59 answering member 4593 label Biography information for Trudy Harrison
	tabling member	4788 label Biography information for Fleur Anderson

1419185

	registered interest
	date	02/02/2022
	answering body	Department for Transport
	answering dept id	27
	answering dept short name	Transport
	answering dept sort name	Transport
	hansard heading	Motorways: Safety
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, when (a) the locations of additional Emergency Refuge Areas (ERAs) to be installed on All Lane Running Smart Motorways within the second Road Investment Strategy will be published and (b) work on the additional 150 ERAs will be completed.
	tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Brightside and Hillsborough
	tabling member printed	Gill Furniss
	uin	117010
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/02/2022 answer text <p>On 12 January 2022, the Government’s response to the Transport Committee committed £390 million over the duration of the second Road Investment Strategy (RIS2) to roll out an Emergency Area (EA) retrofit programme. This will see over 150 additional EAs being added to All Lane Running smart motorways by 2025. National Highways is now developing detailed plans for the design and construction of these additional EAs. Further details on the location, design and schedule for construction of these EAs will be provided in due course.</p> answering member constituency Copeland answering member printed Trudy Harrison question first answered 07/02/2022 12:18:04 answering member 4593 label Biography information for Trudy Harrison
	tabling member	4571 label Biography information for Gill Furniss