The Strategic Road Network (SRN) in England is owned and managed by National Highways. The funding provided through the second Road Investment Strategy (RIS2) enables National Highways to maintain and operate a safe SRN across the country that underpins the economy and directly and indirectly benefits its users and local communities. Individual schemes have the potential to support levelling up across England, as does the deployment of National Highways designated funds programme. The designated funds programme includes the Users and Communities Fund, which works to better integrate the SRN with the major road network and roads managed by local authorities. We also work to integrate with other transport modes, aiming to improve everyone\u2019s journey, regardless of how they are travelling.<\/p>
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Safety is National Highways\u2019 top priority as highway authority on the SRN and it addresses safety issues through public information campaigns and infrastructure solutions where necessary.<\/p>"} , "answeringMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/4593", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Trudy Harrison"} } , "answeringMemberConstituency" : {"_value" : "Copeland"} , "answeringMemberPrinted" : {"_value" : "Trudy Harrison"} , "dateOfAnswer" : {"_value" : "2022-02-01", "_datatype" : "dateTime"} , "groupedQuestionUIN" : {"_value" : "110250"} , "isMinisterialCorrection" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"} , "questionFirstAnswered" : [{"_value" : "2022-02-01T14:46:01.003Z", "_datatype" : "dateTime"} ]} , "answeringDeptId" : {"_value" : "27"} , "answeringDeptShortName" : {"_value" : "Transport"} , "answeringDeptSortName" : {"_value" : "Transport"} , "date" : {"_value" : "2022-01-24", "_datatype" : "dateTime"} , "hansardHeading" : {"_value" : "National Highways: Regional Planning and Development"} , "houseId" : {"_value" : "1"} , "legislature" : [{"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/terms/25259", "prefLabel" : {"_value" : "House of Commons"} } ], "questionText" : "To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what role the Highways Agency has in supporting the Levelling Up agenda.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"} , "tablingMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/411", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Mr Barry Sheerman"} } , "tablingMemberConstituency" : {"_value" : "Huddersfield"} , "tablingMemberPrinted" : [{"_value" : "Mr Barry Sheerman"} ], "uin" : "110249"} , {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/1415872", "AnsweringBody" : [{"_value" : "Department for Transport"} ], "answer" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/1415872/answer", "answerText" : {"_value" : "
The Strategic Road Network (SRN) in England is owned and managed by National Highways. The funding provided through the second Road Investment Strategy (RIS2) enables National Highways to maintain and operate a safe SRN across the country that underpins the economy and directly and indirectly benefits its users and local communities. Individual schemes have the potential to support levelling up across England, as does the deployment of National Highways designated funds programme. The designated funds programme includes the Users and Communities Fund, which works to better integrate the SRN with the major road network and roads managed by local authorities. We also work to integrate with other transport modes, aiming to improve everyone\u2019s journey, regardless of how they are travelling.<\/p>
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Safety is National Highways\u2019 top priority as highway authority on the SRN and it addresses safety issues through public information campaigns and infrastructure solutions where necessary.<\/p>"} , "answeringMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/4593", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Trudy Harrison"} } , "answeringMemberConstituency" : {"_value" : "Copeland"} , "answeringMemberPrinted" : {"_value" : "Trudy Harrison"} , "dateOfAnswer" : {"_value" : "2022-02-01", "_datatype" : "dateTime"} , "groupedQuestionUIN" : {"_value" : "110249"} , "isMinisterialCorrection" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"} , "questionFirstAnswered" : [{"_value" : "2022-02-01T14:46:01.067Z", "_datatype" : "dateTime"} ]} , "answeringDeptId" : {"_value" : "27"} , "answeringDeptShortName" : {"_value" : "Transport"} , "answeringDeptSortName" : {"_value" : "Transport"} , "date" : {"_value" : "2022-01-24", "_datatype" : "dateTime"} , "hansardHeading" : {"_value" : "Roads: Safety"} , "houseId" : {"_value" : "1"} , "legislature" : [{"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/terms/25259", "prefLabel" : {"_value" : "House of Commons"} } ], "questionText" : "To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps the Highways Agency is taking to ensure the safety of people on Britain's roads.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"} , "tablingMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/411", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Mr Barry Sheerman"} } , "tablingMemberConstituency" : {"_value" : "Huddersfield"} , "tablingMemberPrinted" : [{"_value" : "Mr Barry Sheerman"} ], "uin" : "110250"} , {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/1415885", "AnsweringBody" : [{"_value" : "Department for Transport"} ], "answer" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/1415885/answer", "answerText" : {"_value" : "
National Highways is implementing a programme of measures around the country to improve air quality at specific locations on the Strategic Road Network (SRN). These measures include: traffic management, managing speeds to reduce emissions, working with local authorities (investing £12.5m with authorities in Leeds, Coventry, Kent, Nottingham, Sheffield and Bristol) to accelerate the uptake of zero emission vans, as well as continuously looking at other new technologies and measures that will support their work to reduce NO2 levels on the SRN.<\/p>
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National Highways are supporting the Government\u2019s delivery of the UK Nitrogen Dioxide Plan and, in 2021 published update reports on: https://nationalhighways.co.uk/our-work/environment/air-quality-and-noise/air-quality/air-quality-reports/<\/a>.<\/p> <\/p> National Highways also has its own air quality strategy, setting out its approach and activity to deliver cleaner air: https://nationalhighways.co.uk/media/i41jzbar/air_quality_strategy.pdf<\/a> and has funded a research project on how best to improve air quality on its network: https://assets.highwaysengland.co.uk/Corporate+documents/FINAL+-+HE+Research+Projects+to+Improve+Air+Quality.pdf<\/a>.<\/p> <\/p>"}
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], "questionText" : "To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps he is taking to ensure that the Highways Agency is working to support efforts to improve air quality on Britain's roads and highways.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"}
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], "answer" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/1415906/answer", "answerText" : {"_value" : " The Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) publication scheme details which information held by DBS is available to the public. Most of the information that is available through the scheme can be found on the DBS website. Alternatively, it may be provided upon request.<\/p> The publication scheme was established in accordance with Section 19 of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 and in accordance with guidance issued by the Information Commissioner\u2019s Office (ICO).<\/p> DBS revised their publication scheme in March 2021 to ensure it is in line with DBS published performance standards. Police Performance is a subset of enhanced DBS check data, it does not have a separate DBS public service standard, and has been removed from the publication scheme. There will therefore be no further update of this dataset.<\/p>"}
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