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date	02/11/2021
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 what plans they have for the future of smart motorways.
tabling member printed	Lord Goodlad
uin	HL3625
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/11/2021 answer text <p>We welcome the Transport Committee’s report <em>Rollout and safety of smart motorways</em>, published on 2 November 2021. We will start work immediately on considering its recommendations in detail, providing a formal response in due course. This is a serious piece of work which we will engage with closely in the months ahead.</p><p /><p>We are pleased that the Transport Committee recognises that reinstating the hard shoulder on all all-lane running motorways could put more drivers and passengers at risk of death and serious injury and that we are right to focus on upgrading their safety, as the Secretary of State committed to doing when he became Transport Secretary.</p><p /><p>The Transport Secretary is committed to making smart motorways as safe as possible and has committed £500 million on an 18-point Action Plan which includes the faster rollout of Stopped Vehicle Detection technology.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Vere of Norbiton question first answered 08/11/2021 12:08:55 answering member 4580 label Biography information for Baroness Vere of Norbiton
tabling member	670 label Biography information for Lord Goodlad

1333931

registered interest
date	14/06/2021
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 what plans they have to review the smart motorway programme.
tabling member printed	Lord Goodlad
uin	HL1056
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/06/2021 answer text <p>The Government continues to monitor and evaluate the safety performance of all our roads. Following the publication of the <em>Smart Motorway Safety Evidence Stocktake and Action Plan</em> in March 2020, Highways England published the first-year progress report in April of this year.</p><p> </p><p>The report demonstrates the significant progress that has been made against the 18 Stocktake actions. The data contained in the progress report confirms that, on average, fatal casualty rates are lower on All Lane Running (ALR) motorways compared with conventional ones.</p><p> </p><p>Highways England is accelerating safety improvements to give reassurance to motorists on ALR motorways. By the end of September 2022, it will: install technology on all existing stretches of ALR motorway to spot stopped or broken-down vehicles quickly, six months earlier than planned; upgrade special cameras ten months earlier than planned, so that they can be used to spot; prosecute motorists ignoring ‘red X’ signs and illegally driving down closed lane, putting themselves and others in danger; and install around 1,000 additional approach signs six months earlier than planned, alerting drivers to their nearest place to stop in an emergency.</p><p /><p>Significantly, Highways England has also made a commitment that no ALR motorways will open without the radar technology to spot stopped vehicles, enable lanes to be closed where necessary and get help to drivers quickly. Work to update The Highway Code to provide more guidance about driving on ALR motorways has also been brought forward and is due to be published this year ahead of schedule, subject to Parliamentary approval.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Vere of Norbiton question first answered 24/06/2021 13:21:39 answering member 4580 label Biography information for Baroness Vere of Norbiton
tabling member	670 label Biography information for Lord Goodlad

1304487

registered interest
date	22/03/2021
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Hammersmith Bridge: Repairs and Maintenance
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to expedite the re-opening of Hammersmith Bridge.
tabling member printed	Lord Goodlad
uin	HL14439
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/03/2021 answer text <p>As owners of Hammersmith Bridge, the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham (LBHF) is responsible for the maintenance, repair and decision-making on its upkeep.</p><p> </p><p>The Government has ensured that £4 million is being spent on the stabilisation and repair of the bridge via the TfL Extraordinary Funding and Financing package agreed on 31 October 2020. This has funded mitigation works which will give us a better insight into the condition of the bridge and de-risk the overall works programme, helping expedite the long-term repairs. This is a vital step before any other engineering works can be undertaken.</p><p> </p><p>We have commissioned engineering experts to assess the condition of the bridge and their reports suggested the logic keeping the bridge entirely closed could be revisited following the above works. We continue to explore this possibility with LBHF and their engineering consultants.</p><p> </p><p>We recognise there needs to be a temporary solution in place for residents to be able to cross the river whilst the bridge is closed. As part of the TfL bailout last October we provided funding to TfL to set up and run a ferry service.</p><p> </p><p>We have received outline financing options for the long-term bridge repair from LBHF but require much more detail before they can be properly assessed. We are working with the borough to develop these options further.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Vere of Norbiton question first answered 29/03/2021 15:28:33 answering member 4580 label Biography information for Baroness Vere of Norbiton
tabling member	670 label Biography information for Lord Goodlad

1278407

registered interest
date	19/01/2021
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 what plans they have to establish a review on how to improve the safety of smart motorways.
tabling member printed	Lord Goodlad
uin	HL12284
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/01/2021 answer text <p>The most recent data on fatalities published is for 2017 and 2018. For smart motorways (this includes All Lane Running, Dynamic Hard Shoulder and Controlled Motorways), there were 8 fatalities in 2017 and 19 in 2018. This is compared with 83 fatalities on Conventional Motorways in 2017 and 67 in 2018. While this metric for fatalities gives us an understanding about safety on different road types, it does not consider the volume of traffic on these roads and how intensely they are used. The fatal casualty rate, which are fatalities per hundred million vehicle miles travelled, accounts for the volume of traffic that roads carry.</p><p> </p><p>The most recent data in the table below shows that fatal casualty rates on smart motorways are lower than on conventional motorways:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Motorway type </strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Fatal casualty rates per hundred million vehicle miles </strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Controlled Motorways </strong></p></td><td><p>0.07 per hundred million vehicle miles</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Dynamic Hard Shoulder </strong></p></td><td><p>0.07 per hundred million vehicle miles</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>All Lane Running </strong></p></td><td><p>0.11 per hundred million vehicle miles</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Conventional Motorways </strong></p></td><td><p>0.16 per hundred million vehicle miles</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Fatal casualty rates per hundred million vehicle miles, 2015-2018.</p><p> </p><p>Following concerns about smart motorway safety the Secretary of State asked the department to review the evidence and, if needed, bring forward recommendations. The conclusions were published in March 2020. Overall what the evidence in the <em>Smart Motorway Safety Evidence Stocktake and Action Plan</em> shows is that in most ways, smart motorways are as safe as, or safer than, the conventional ones. To ensure that smart motorways are as safe as they can be, alongside the safety evidence stocktake, we published an 18-point Action Plan.</p><p> </p><p>Highways England is implementing the Action Plan in full and has already completed work, including the provision of 10 additional emergency areas on the M25 and making all emergency areas more visible by introducing a bright orange surface and better, more frequent signs.</p> answering member printed Baroness Vere of Norbiton grouped question UIN HL12283 question first answered 25/01/2021 17:28:40 answering member 4580 label Biography information for Baroness Vere of Norbiton
tabling member	670 label Biography information for Lord Goodlad