Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment his Department has made of the safety of roads across Nottinghamshire.

As part of the Department for Transport’s Safer Roads Fund project, the A634 in Nottinghamshire was funded in our first round of road safety schemes to the amount of £2,181,000. Work on this road was completed in 2020 in collaboration with Nottinghamshire County Council.

The Safer Roads Fund encourages local authorities to adopt a safe system principle, improving roads and creating infrastructure for active travel.

Responsibility, however, of the local road network, including safety, remains the role of Nottinghamshire County Council. They are best suited to understand the safety of roads across their area and to implement appropriate interventions.