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1181423

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date	27/02/2020
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Motorways: Accidents
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Baroness Vere of Norbiton on 24 February (HL1567), what data they currently hold on the number of people who have been killed on smart motorways.
tabling member printed	Lord Framlingham
uin	HL1994
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/03/2020 answer text <p>England’s roads are amongst the safest in the world. Of the 1,522 fatalities on our roads in 2018, 86 were on the Strategic Road Network (SRN) motorway network, of which 19 were on the ‘smart motorway’ sections of the network. Across 2015-2018 there were on average 1,507 fatalities per year. Of these, 87 were on the SRN motorway network including 11 on the 'smart motorway' sections.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Vere of Norbiton question first answered 12/03/2020 17:55:48 answering member 4580 label Biography information for Baroness Vere of Norbiton
tabling member	134 label Biography information for Lord Framlingham

1181424

registered interest
date	27/02/2020
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Motorways
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Baroness Vere of Norbiton on 24 February (HL1568), why they will not name the minister or official who made the decision to build smart motorways in the UK.
tabling member printed	Lord Framlingham
uin	HL1995
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/03/2020 answer text <p>The term ‘Smart Motorways’ describes a set of motorway designs, comprising Controlled Motorways, Dynamic Hard Shoulder Running and All Lane Running. Since 1995, these have been progressively introduced to the strategic road network under the tenure of a number of different ministers and officials.</p> answering member printed Baroness Vere of Norbiton question first answered 12/03/2020 15:54:15 answering member 4580 label Biography information for Baroness Vere of Norbiton
tabling member	134 label Biography information for Lord Framlingham

1181426

registered interest
date	27/02/2020
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	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Baroness Vere of Norbiton on 24 February (HL1569) and prior to their decision to conduct “an evidence stocktake to gather the facts about the safety of smart motorways”, what assessment they gave to the reintroduction of hard shoulders on smart motorways.
tabling member printed	Lord Framlingham
uin	HL1996
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/03/2020 answer text <p>Smart motorways increase capacity by around a third and help tackle congestion on some of our most busy roads. They help people get from A to B as well as keep our freight moving. They enable us to increase capacity while minimising the amount of additional land required. This has environmental benefits and it means that capacity can be added more quickly.</p><p> </p><p>It is worth noting that the hard shoulder on a traditional motorway is not a safe place to stop. One in 12 fatalities on a motorway happens on the hard shoulder.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Vere of Norbiton question first answered 12/03/2020 17:15:34 answering member 4580 label Biography information for Baroness Vere of Norbiton
tabling member	134 label Biography information for Lord Framlingham

1181427

registered interest
date	27/02/2020
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	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Baroness Vere of Norbiton on 24 February (HL1570) and prior to their decision to conduct “an evidence stocktake to gather the facts about the safety of smart motorways”, what discussions they had with the police about the safety of smart motorways.
tabling member printed	Lord Framlingham
uin	HL1997
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/03/2020 answer text <p>Throughout the design and development of Smart Motorways there is extensive consultation with the emergency services, including the police, to ensure that they have safe and effective operating procedures.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Vere of Norbiton question first answered 12/03/2020 16:06:42 answering member 4580 label Biography information for Baroness Vere of Norbiton
tabling member	134 label Biography information for Lord Framlingham

1181428

registered interest
date	27/02/2020
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Motorways
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Baroness Vere of Norbiton on 24 February (HL1571) and prior to their decision to conduct “an evidence stocktake to gather the facts about the safety of smart motorways”, (1) how many miles of smart motorways have been created to date, (2) what has been the total cost of that work, and (3) how many miles of such motorways had been planned.
tabling member printed	Lord Framlingham
uin	HL1998
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/03/2020 answer text <ol><li><p>The SRN has been expanding and evolving since the 1960’s, and in 2018 was 4,513 miles in length. The last 25 years has also seen conversion of parts of the motorway network to become smart motorways:</p></li></ol><ul><li><p>Controlled Motorway (CM) - in 1995 the first mandatory variable speed limits used on the English motorway network were introduced on the M25 J10-J15. By the end of 2018, controlled motorways covered 137 miles of the network (around 3% of the SRN) and carried 7 billion vehicle miles of traffic (around 8% of total SRN traffic)</p></li><li><p>Dynamic Hard Shoulder Running (DHS) - in 2006 the first hard shoulder to be opened to traffic was put into operation on the M42 J3a-7. This pilot scheme was originally known as active traffic management. By the end of 2018, Dynamic Hard Shoulder Running motorways covered 66 miles of the network (around 1% of the SRN) and carried 3 billion vehicle miles of traffic (around 3% of total SRN traffic)</p></li><li><p>All Lane Running (ALR) - in 2014 the first ALR schemes went into operation on the M25 J5-7 and J23-27. By the end of 2018, ALR motorways covered 123 miles of the network (around 3% of the SRN) and carried 5 billion vehicle miles of traffic (around 5% of total SRN traffic).</p></li></ul><p> </p><p>The smart motorway evidence stocktake report and action plan was published on 12 March 2020 and is available on gov.uk.</p><p> </p><p>I will write to you to answer your questions 2 and 3.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Vere of Norbiton question first answered 12/03/2020 17:54:00 answering member 4580 label Biography information for Baroness Vere of Norbiton
tabling member	134 label Biography information for Lord Framlingham

1181430

registered interest
date	27/02/2020
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	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Baroness Vere of Norbiton on 24 February (HL1572) and prior to their decision to conduct “an evidence stocktake to gather the facts about the safety of smart motorways”, what assessment they had made of the safety of smart motorways, or similar schemes, operating in other countries before introducing them in England.
tabling member printed	Lord Framlingham
uin	HL1999
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/03/2020 answer text <p>The Highways Agency looked at experience in the Netherlands before introducing the first smart motorway scheme with hard shoulder running - the M42 ‘Active Traffic Management’ pilot project.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Vere of Norbiton question first answered 12/03/2020 16:11:08 answering member 4580 label Biography information for Baroness Vere of Norbiton
tabling member	134 label Biography information for Lord Framlingham