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registered interest
date	23/04/2024
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Motorways: Safety Measures
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of reports that the safety equipment installed on smart motorways has a high failure rate.
tabling member printed	Baroness Randerson
uin	HL4039
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/05/2024 answer text <p>Smart motorways operate using a range of safety systems and are designed not to be reliant on one single piece of roadside technology for safe operation.</p><p> </p><p>National Highways has worked hard to deliver a significant improvement in the performance of stopped vehicle detection (SVD), with all schemes now meeting performance requirements.</p><p>In their annual safety report published in December 2023, the ORR confirmed that SVD technology is now meeting performance requirements for detection rate, detection time, and false detection. The ORR will continue to monitor SVD performance closely.</p><p> </p><p>Further, National Highways is investing more than £300m to maintain roadside technology and improve its performance during Road Period 2 (2020-2025). This includes £105m targeted at improving its systems and technology on All Lane Running (ALR) sections of smart motorway. Roadside technology on ALR smart motorways is given high priority.</p><p> </p><p>National Highways has well-rehearsed contingency plans for both planned and unplanned outages. These include lowering speed limits, increasing patrols by its traffic officers, enhanced monitoring of CCTV, and using pre-positioned vehicle recovery to speed up attendance and clearance of stranded vehicles.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Davies of Gower question first answered 08/05/2024 14:51:30 answering member 4499 label Biography information for Lord Davies of Gower
tabling member	4230 label Biography information for Baroness Randerson

1639374

registered interest
date	22/05/2023
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Motorways: Safety Measures
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what impact the Government's announcement on scrapping new smart motorways will have on existing smart motorways.
tabling member constituency	West Lancashire
tabling member printed	Ashley Dalton
uin	186265
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/05/2023 answer text <p>I refer the Honourable Member to the Written Ministerial Statement of 17 April 2023.</p> answering member constituency North West Durham answering member printed Mr Richard Holden question first answered 30/05/2023 11:20:27 answering member 4813 label Biography information for Mr Richard Holden
tabling member	4981 label Biography information for Ashley Dalton

1627774

registered interest
date	15/05/2023
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Motorways: Safety Measures
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether he will he plans to end the use of Smart Motorways.
tabling member constituency	York Central
tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
uin	185029
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/05/2023 answer text <p>I refer the Honourable lady to the statement made to the House on 17 April 2023.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency North West Durham answering member printed Mr Richard Holden question first answered 22/05/2023 13:35:00 answering member 4813 label Biography information for Mr Richard Holden
tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell

1627037

registered interest
date	11/05/2023
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Motorways: Safety Measures
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what was the cost to the public purse of media advertising for the Go Left smart motorway campaign in 2021.
tabling member constituency	Hendon
tabling member printed	Dr Matthew Offord
uin	184621
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/05/2023 answer text <p>The Go Left campaign, which promotes good behaviour on all dual carriageways and motorways, was conducted across two waves of activity in Spring and Autumn 2021 at a total cost of £5.8 million.</p> answering member constituency North West Durham answering member printed Mr Richard Holden question first answered 16/05/2023 13:06:59 answering member 4813 label Biography information for Mr Richard Holden
tabling member	4006 label Biography information for Dr Matthew Offord

1626379

registered interest
date	09/05/2023
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Motorways: Safety Measures
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 2 May 2023 to Question 182917 on Motorways: Safety Measures, in what format his Department holds data on the distance between emergency refuge areas on dynamic hard shoulder smart motorways; and if he will publish that data.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Brightside and Hillsborough
tabling member printed	Gill Furniss
uin	184146
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/05/2023 answer text <p>National Highways holds extensive mapping data of assets across its network. However, this data is not held in the format requested.</p><p> </p><p>The Stocktake and Action Plan in 2020 launched a new standard to achieve closer spacing of places of relative safety (PRS), at 0.75 mile where feasible, up to a maximum of one mile. This was made a requirement for new All Lane Running (ALR) smart motorways schemes which entered the design phase from November 2020.</p><p> </p><p>Therefore, any ALR smart motorway scheme that entered the design phase after this date is required to meet these standards.</p> answering member constituency North West Durham answering member printed Mr Richard Holden question first answered 15/05/2023 09:15:18 answering member 4813 label Biography information for Mr Richard Holden
tabling member	4571 label Biography information for Gill Furniss

1626011

registered interest
date	05/05/2023
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Motorways: Safety Measures
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether existing smart motorways will remain in place; and whether the construction of new smart motorways will continue.
tabling member constituency	Warrington North
tabling member printed	Charlotte Nichols
uin	183969
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/05/2023 answer text <p>I refer the honourable Member to the Written Statement made by my RHF the Secretary of State on 17 April (HCWS712).</p> answering member constituency North West Durham answering member printed Mr Richard Holden question first answered 10/05/2023 12:14:56 answering member 4813 label Biography information for Mr Richard Holden
tabling member	4799 label Biography information for Charlotte Nichols

1625699

registered interest
date	03/05/2023
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Motorways: Safety Measures
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what proportion of all lane running smart motorways have places of relative safety spaced at an average of less than 0.75 miles apart.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Brightside and Hillsborough
tabling member printed	Gill Furniss
uin	183791
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/05/2023 answer text <p>Current design standards require places of relative safety to be spaced between 0.75 and 1 mile.</p> answering member constituency North West Durham answering member printed Mr Richard Holden question first answered 10/05/2023 09:27:33 answering member 4813 label Biography information for Mr Richard Holden
tabling member	4571 label Biography information for Gill Furniss

1625700

registered interest
date	03/05/2023
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Motorways: Safety Measures
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many additional emergency refuge areas have been added to all lane running smart motorways in operation since January 2022.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Brightside and Hillsborough
tabling member printed	Gill Furniss
uin	183792
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/05/2023 answer text <p>Since January 2022, 108 emergency areas have been added to all lane running (ALR) motorways.</p> answering member constituency North West Durham answering member printed Mr Richard Holden question first answered 10/05/2023 07:59:17 answering member 4813 label Biography information for Mr Richard Holden
tabling member	4571 label Biography information for Gill Furniss

1624122

registered interest
date	26/04/2023
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Motorways: Safety Measures
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 (a) all-lane running and (b) dynamic hard shoulder smart motorways have an emergency refuge area at least every (i) three-quarters of and (ii) one mile.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Brightside and Hillsborough
tabling member printed	Gill Furniss
uin	182917
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/05/2023 answer text <p>Currently just over a third of ALR smart motorways in operation have places of relative safety (PRS), including Emergency Areas, spaced at an average of less than one mile. The average spacing between PRS on operational ALR schemes is currently approximately 0.97 miles. National Highways does not hold the data available for dynamic hard shoulder (DHS) smart motorways in the format requested.</p><p> </p><p>In the Government’s response to the Transport Select Committee in 2022, £390m was committed to constructing an additional 150 Emergency Areas to ALR smart motorways in operation over the duration of the second Road Investment Strategy to reduce the spacing between places to stop in an emergency in line with the new standard.</p><p> </p><p><strong><em> </em></strong></p><p> </p> answering member constituency North West Durham answering member printed Mr Richard Holden question first answered 02/05/2023 16:07:17 answering member 4813 label Biography information for Mr Richard Holden
tabling member	4571 label Biography information for Gill Furniss