Question to the Department for Transport:

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.

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’s journey, regardless of how they are travelling.

Safety is National Highways’ top priority as highway authority on the SRN and it addresses safety issues through public information campaigns and infrastructure solutions where necessary.