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1728039

registered interest
date	09/09/2024
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Motorways
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether she plans to end the use of smart motorways.
tabling member constituency	South Holland and The Deepings
tabling member printed	Sir John Hayes
uin	4584
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/09/2024 answer text <p>The safety of everyone travelling on our roads is the Government’s priority, which is why we are committed to delivering a new Road Safety Strategy, the first in over a decade. We will not roll out new smart motorways and will set out next steps in due course.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Nottingham South answering member printed Lilian Greenwood question first answered 11/09/2024 15:12:41 answering member 4029 label Biography information for Lilian Greenwood
tabling member	350 label Biography information for Sir John Hayes

1724635

registered interest
date	30/07/2024
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Motorways
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether it is her policy to build new smart motorways.
tabling member constituency	Mid Buckinghamshire
tabling member printed	Greg Smith
uin	2508
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/09/2024 answer text <p><strong> </strong></p><p>The Government takes road safety very seriously and reducing those killed and injured on our roads is a key priority and that is why we are committed to delivering a new Road Safety Strategy. We will not roll out new smart motorways.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Nottingham South answering member printed Lilian Greenwood question first answered 03/09/2024 14:44:55 answering member 4029 label Biography information for Lilian Greenwood
tabling member	4778 label Biography information for Greg Smith

1716817

registered interest
date	09/05/2024
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Motorways
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will make his policy to reinstate a hard shoulder on all smart motorways.
tabling member constituency	Hornsey and Wood Green
tabling member printed	Catherine West
uin	25512
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/05/2024 answer text <p>On 16 April 2023, the Government announced that all plans for new smart motorways have been cancelled, recognising the lack of confidence felt by drivers and cost pressures. This means no new smart motorways will be built.</p><p> </p><p>We are focused on investing £900m to add further safety improvements to existing smart motorways, including constructing over 150 extra emergency areas – so that people can continue to get around easily and with increased confidence.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Restoring the hard shoulder while maintaining capacity would be hugely disruptive, both for road users and local communities, and come at a significant financial cost, and a potential impact on the overall safety of the road network.</p><p> </p><p>Any reduction in capacity on our Strategic Road Network could put more drivers and passengers at risk of death or serious injury by forcing them on to less safe local roads.</p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman question first answered 16/05/2024 14:37:05 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
tabling member	4523 label Biography information for Catherine West

1642438

registered interest
date	25/05/2023
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Motorways
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether he has had recent discussions with National Highways on the minimum length of road allowable between two motorway junctions; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Tewkesbury
tabling member printed	Mr Laurence Robertson
uin	905166
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/06/2023 answer text <p>I have not held any discussions with National Highways on the matter the Hon Member raises but I can assure him that National Highways follow the relevant standard for spacing and layouts of motorway junctions. Any departures from standard are considered on a case by case basis and the reasons will be unique to each location.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency North West Durham answering member printed Mr Richard Holden question first answered 08/06/2023 08:37:53 answering member 4813 label Biography information for Mr Richard Holden
tabling member	253 label Biography information for Mr Laurence Robertson

1612484

registered interest
date	19/04/2023
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Motorways
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will (a) ensure that hard shoulders are reinstated along every motorway and (b) abolish the smart motorway programme on all UK motorways.
tabling member constituency	Bath
tabling member printed	Wera Hobhouse
uin	181774
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/04/2023 answer text <p>The Government has decided to cancel plans for the construction of all new smart motorway schemes. Restoring the hard shoulder while maintaining capacity would be hugely disruptive and come at enormous cost.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The added congestion caused would push motorists from motorways, the safest roads in the country, onto roads that are less safe, putting all road users at increased risk.</p> answering member constituency North West Durham answering member printed Mr Richard Holden question first answered 24/04/2023 15:18:18 answering member 4813 label Biography information for Mr Richard Holden
tabling member	4602 label Biography information for Wera Hobhouse

1564752

registered interest
date	09/01/2023
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Motorways
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what recent assessment he has made of the potential impact of smart motorways on (a) levels of congestion and (b) driver safety.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	118927
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/01/2023 answer text <p>National Highways produces annual smart motorways stocktake progress reports which cover the latest safety data and progress on delivering the 2020 Stocktake actions. National Highways published its <a href="https://eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Furldefense.com%2Fv3%2F__https%3A%2F%2Fnationalhighways.co.uk%2Fmedia%2Fuivj2zem%2Fsmart-motorways-stocktake-second-year-2022.pdf__%3B!!HEBAkwG3r5RD!5wfacw1GmLJImTdapOKpoaRHpjXxjMDojXGkk35vFNpJZb4tpE9ulsZZQblI9kX0M3rrLUnEWk2uuzG5iaxdQYzBCBli4JQhEvjQ7aHeEQ%24&amp;data=05%7C01%7CDanielle.Young%40dft.gov.uk%7C1aaaa7a58b1a48418b7708daf3b94c5d%7C28b782fb41e148eabfc3ad7558ce7136%7C0%7C0%7C638090275434187047%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=Y%2BAeWWKMI00tYUKhOVuZtzzCVe04qkHsaVo8eqayHEs%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">Smart motorways stocktake - Second year progress report 2022</a> in May 2022. The latest data (2016 to 2020) shows that shows that, overall, in terms of serious or fatal casualties, smart motorways are the safest roads on the Strategic Road Network. The next annual report is due to be published in Spring 2023.</p><p> </p><p>National Highways also produces Post Opening Project Evaluation (POPE) reports ‘one year after’ and ‘five years after’ the opening of a road scheme covering all scheme impacts, including journey time reliability and safety. Reports are published on the National Highways <a href="https://eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Furldefense.com%2Fv3%2F__https%3A%2F%2Fnationalhighways.co.uk%2Four-roads%2Fpost-opening-project-evaluation-pope-of-major-schemes%2F__%3B!!HEBAkwG3r5RD!5wfacw1GmLJImTdapOKpoaRHpjXxjMDojXGkk35vFNpJZb4tpE9ulsZZQblI9kX0M3rrLUnEWk2uuzG5iaxdQYzBCBli4JQhEvgRMXzQGQ%24&amp;data=05%7C01%7CDanielle.Young%40dft.gov.uk%7C1aaaa7a58b1a48418b7708daf3b94c5d%7C28b782fb41e148eabfc3ad7558ce7136%7C0%7C0%7C638090275434187047%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=gLrLcxApDZg1cno0scyzm%2BfFjBGoGDqImB7Jy99dHuo%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">website</a>.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency North West Durham answering member printed Mr Richard Holden question first answered 16/01/2023 14:19:32 answering member 4813 label Biography information for Mr Richard Holden
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

1563100

registered interest
date	19/12/2022
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Motorways
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 19 December to Question 109583, on Motorways whether his Department collects data on response times to each incident in which a vehicle is stranded in a live lane on All Lane Running Motorways.
tabling member constituency	Rotherham
tabling member printed	Sarah Champion
uin	113358
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/01/2023 answer text <p>National Highways provides the Department with a monthly summary of traffic officer attendance time data. This covers, for all incident types, the time from when we are first made aware of an incident, to when a traffic officer arrives at the incident on all lane running smart motorways where emergency areas are more than a mile apart.</p><p>The average response time in November was 9 minutes and 22 seconds.</p> answering member constituency North West Durham answering member printed Mr Richard Holden question first answered 09/01/2023 12:50:14 answering member 4813 label Biography information for Mr Richard Holden
tabling member	4267 label Biography information for Sarah Champion

1551013

registered interest
date	13/12/2022
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Motorways
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what data his Department holds on response times for providing support to vehicles stranded in live lanes on smart motorways; and what policies his Department has on the (a) collection and (b) use of such data.
tabling member constituency	Rotherham
tabling member printed	Sarah Champion
uin	109583
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/12/2022 answer text <p>National Highways annual smart motorways safety publications include data about vehicles stopped in live lanes, which shows that a very small proportion of total journeys on any road result in live lane breakdowns. National Highways also monitor and manage the performance of traffic officer attendance times, where emergency areas are more than a mile apart, and stopped vehicle detection times where the system is in place.</p><p> </p><p>The Department meets regularly with National Highways to review operational data and will continue to consider this alongside the wider safety and economic data during the current pause on the roll-out of new smart motorways.</p><p> </p><p>As part of the stocktake action plan in 2020, National Highways committed to faster attendance by more traffic officer patrols where emergency areas are more than a mile apart, reducing the national average time it takes traffic officers to attend incidents from 17 to 10 minutes. In September 2022, National Highways successfully met its revised national target and averaged a response time of 9 minutes 49 seconds.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency North West Durham answering member printed Mr Richard Holden question first answered 19/12/2022 14:31:42 answering member 4813 label Biography information for Mr Richard Holden
tabling member	4267 label Biography information for Sarah Champion

1520148

registered interest
date	10/10/2022
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 His Majesty's Government what plans they have, if any, to make upgrades to smart motorways.
tabling member printed	Lord Bradshaw
uin	HL2397
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/10/2022 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.</p> answering member printed Baroness Vere of Norbiton question first answered 19/10/2022 11:44:03 answering member 4580 label Biography information for Baroness Vere of Norbiton
tabling member	2483 label Biography information for Lord Bradshaw

1466514

registered interest
date	26/05/2022
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Motorways
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether he has any plans to reinstate hard shoulders on smart motorways already in use, following the Government's announcement in January 2022 that the rollout of smart motorways would be paused.
tabling member constituency	Slough
tabling member printed	Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi
uin	9989
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/06/2022 answer text <p>In November 2021, the Transport Select Committee published its Third Report of Session 2021-22 following its inquiry into the rollout and safety of smart motorways. The Committee agreed that the Government was right to focus on upgrading the safety of All Lane Running (ALR) smart motorways rather than reinstating the hard shoulder, which the Committee recognised could put more drivers and passengers at risk of death or serious injury on our roads.</p><p>Having carefully considered the Committee’s report, the Department is taking forward all its recommendations. This includes pausing the roll-out of ALR smart motorway schemes yet to commence construction until five years of safety data is available for ALR smart motorways introduced before 2020. We are continuing to act to make sure all existing ALR smart motorways are as safe as possible with over £900m being invested, including for the construction of additional emergency areas and the roll-out of Stopped Vehicle Detection technology across existing ALR motorways.</p> answering member constituency Copeland answering member printed Trudy Harrison question first answered 08/06/2022 09:31:29 answering member 4593 label Biography information for Trudy Harrison
tabling member	4638 label Biography information for Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi