Roads: North of England

(asked on 6th November 2017) - View Source

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many of the 16 major road schemes in the 2015-2020 Road Investment Strategy that Highways England is delaying are in northern England, broken down by NUTS 1 region.


Answered by
Jesse Norman Portrait
Jesse Norman
This question was answered on 14th November 2017

Of the sixteen schemes moving back within the Road Investment Strategy Period 1, two schemes are in northern England.

They are:

  • M60 Junction 24-27 and Junctions 1-4 Smart Motorways in the North West; and
  • A1 Birtley to Coal House widening in Yorkshire and the North East.

Five out of the ten schemes being brought forward are in Northern England.

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